Senior Fund Accountant
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About this Role
We are seeking a Senior Fund Accountant to join our lean, high-performing accounting team. Reporting
directly to the Controller, this person will take ownership of a defined portfolio of entities and support the
full accounting lifecycle – from monthly close and bank reconciliations through investor reporting and
fund administration liaison work. This is a high-visibility, high-ownership role in a firm that is growing in
both complexity and strategy. The right candidate will be intellectually curious, comfortable working
across multiple systems and entity types, and capable of understanding partnership-level financial
concepts including carried interest, investor capital accounts, and managing multiple levels of accounting
books (GAAP vs. Tax).
Primary Responsibilities
(this list is not intended to be all-inclusive):
- Maintain and reconcile investor capital accounts across assigned fund entities
- Serve as primary liaison with fund administrator; review, validate, and where applicable challenge administrator output
- Support K-1 preparation and tax workpaper coordination with outside CPA firm
- Perform entity-level bank reconciliations
- Maintain loan tracker and prepare interest accrual journal entries
- Prepare and post monthly journal entries, accruals, and reclassifications
- Import financial data and prepare monthly financial statements
- Support intercompany reconciliation and elimination review under Controller oversight
- Assist with audit support, PBC list preparation, and workpaper organization
- Maintain data integrity across multiple systems
- Account for capitalized interest, construction-in-process costs, and development period accounting across active projects
- Calculate deal-level and fund-level preferred returns, waterfall distributions, and carried interest accruals
Qualifications
JLAM seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The successful candidate should have:
- Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5–7 years of accounting experience with meaningful exposure to real estate, fund accounting, or investment partnerships
• Working knowledge of partnership financial structures including capital accounts, distributions, carried interest, and waterfall calculations
• Proficiency in multi-entity accounting environments
• Strong Excel skills; experience with accounting ERP systems
• CPA candidate or CPA license
• Experience supporting K-1 preparation or working with fund administrators
• NetSuite or other similar ERP experience - Preferred
• Public accounting or Fund administration background with real estate or investment fund clients
• Familiarity with construction-period accounting, capitalized interest, and development project cost tracking
• Big 4 or top regional public accounting background