Senior Fund Accountant

Carta Carta · Fintech · Sydney, Australia · Fund Administration

Senior Fund Accountant role at Carta, a fintech company focused on private markets infrastructure. The role involves supporting clients with financial accounting needs, streamlining operations, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance the Investor Services product suite. The ideal candidate will have experience in closed-end fund accounting, interpreting LPAs, and strong problem-solving skills, with an interest in leveraging technology and AI to improve workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help provide leverage to our clients by understanding and prioritizing their needs while effectively scaling our CFO services.
  2. Bring transparency to founders, VCs, and LPs and help our clients make more accurate decisions by helping them utilize our tools and resources such as:
  3. Improve our product and software through working with our product and engineering teams to continue to develop our Investor Services product suite
  4. Turn a service industry into a software business through consulting with clients and implementing our Fund Administration software

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of closed-end fund accounting experience
  • accounting or finance degree
  • experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements
  • strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • communication skills
  • multitasking skills
  • understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Fund or Funds, Fund Administration
  • understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Administration as well as local fund structures like Unit Trust, Investment Company, Limited Partnerships (VCLP, ESVCLP) , stapled structures
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills
  • experience mentoring/coaching junior accountants

Nice to have

  • proactive mindset toward adopting AI to streamline and enhance operational workflows

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of closed-end fund accounting experience
  • accounting or finance degree
  • experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements
  • strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • communicates information in a timely, appropriate and effective manner to all relevant stakeholders and are able to multitask to meet multiple deadlines
  • understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Fund or Funds, Fund Administration.
  • understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity Fund Administration as well as local fund structures like Unit Trust, Investment Company, Limited Partnerships (VCLP, ESVCLP) , stapled structures
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills and a proactive mindset toward adopting AI to streamline and enhance operational workflows
  • experience mentoring/coaching junior accountants.