Senior Fund Accountant

Carta Carta · Fintech · Hong Kong · Fund Administration

Senior Fund Accountant at Carta, a fintech company providing software and services for private markets. The role involves partnering with venture capital firms to streamline financial accounting, working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, and contributing to the development of the Investor Services product suite. Requires 3+ years of closed-end fund accounting experience, understanding of LPAs, and strong critical thinking skills. Interest in adopting AI to streamline workflows is mentioned, but AI is not the core craft of the role.

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
  • communicate information in a timely, appropriate and effective manner
  • multitask to meet multiple deadlines
  • understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Fund or Funds, Fund Administration
  • mentoring/coaching junior accountants
  • Strong command of Mandarin, Cantonese and English

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