Senior Fund Controller

We are seeking an experienced Contractor for a role as a Senior Controller to support multiple private equity clients on a short-term project engagement estimated full time for 3-5 months wih options to stay on indefinley. This role is fully remote and focused on data-heavy accounting work, daily fund management, capital calls and distributions or data remediation for multiple private equity funds.

You will play a key role in uploading and reconciling financial data, validating accuracy across systems, and building Excel-based templates to support daily fund accounting functions and performance and reporting metrics.

This engagement is ideal for a senior-level fund accountant / controller who is highly proficient in Excel, comfortable working across accounting systems, and enjoys structured, detail-oriented project work.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and processing fund accounting day to day functions including oversight of the cash process, expense accruals, capital calls, distributions, management fee calculation, review carried interest, organization of record keeping
• Financial reporting oversight for quarter end close process, waterfall, financial statement review, PCAP review, valuation uploads
• Upload financial data from Excel into accounting systems for multiple private equity funds
• Reconcile accounting data across multiple sources (Excel files, accounting platforms, bank data)
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between systems and source documents
• Financial reconciliations between systems
• Data validation and roll-forwards
• Perform data manipulation, and clean-up work as needed (rebook journal entries using different GL codes or break out into more granular data, adjust errors as needed)
• Download reports from accounting systems and validate accuracy against source files
• Collaborate with internal finance team to ensure consistent data structure and reporting
• Required Qualifications
• 10+ years of experience in fund accounting on a private equity client or a similar limited life drawdown type fund
• Strong working knowledge of general accounting principles and investment accounting
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including VLOOKUP / XLOOKUP, Pivot tables, Sumifs
• Experience setting up and managing data reconciliations
• Comfort working inside accounting systems, including Investran and others
• Uploading and downloading data
• Troubleshooting system-to-Excel mismatches
• Highly detail-oriented with strong analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and manage deadlines in a project-based environment
• Understanding of reviewing LPAs for agreement with waterfall calculations, preferred return calcs, IRRs, management fee calcs, etc

Why This Opportunity

• Competitive hourly rate
• Clearly defined project scope
• Potential for extension or future project work
• Exposure to complex private equity accounting environments

Job Types: Contract, Temporary

Pay: From $75.00 per hour

Work Location: Remote