Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HireIQ is recruiting for a growing financial-services advisory firm serving clients across private credit and specialty finance. The Senior Accountant will manage accounting and recurring reporting for an assigned client portfolio, including monthly closes, financial statements, borrowing-base reporting, and lender and investor deliverables. The role also involves client communication, reviewing junior team members’ work, and improving reporting workflows through technology and automation.
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly close for an assigned portfolio of clients
- Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations and financial statements
- Prepare and maintain borrowing-base certificates and supporting schedules
- Produce loan-level portfolio, performance and delinquency reporting
- Prepare recurring investor, lender and management-reporting packages
- Reconcile lending, funding, participation and other complex accounting positions
- Support partnership and fund-accounting requirements
- Calculate and reconcile commissions, fees and related schedules
- Serve as a primary contact for recurring client deliverables and accounting requests
- Respond to lender, investor and client reporting inquiries
- Review work prepared by junior and outsourced accounting resources
- Coordinate with external audit, tax and other professional-service providers
- Document accounting processes and strengthen internal workflows
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting through technology and automation
Skills
- 4–8 years of progressive accounting experience
- Demonstrated ownership of a complete monthly or quarterly close
- Experience preparing financial statements, reconciliations and journal entries
- Direct experience working with clients, investors, lenders or senior stakeholders
- Strong Excel skills and proficiency with a general-ledger system
- Comfortable working hands-on with complex or imperfect source data
- Strong communication, organization and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and take ownership of deliverables
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is required
- Private credit or direct lending
- Asset-based lending or specialty finance
- Borrowing-base and covenant reporting
- Fund administration or fund accounting
- Partnership accounting
- Loan or portfolio accounting
- Multi-client accounting or outsourced financial services
- CPA designation or active progress toward licensure is preferred
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Primarily remote working arrangement
- Occasional meetings and team days in the New York/New Jersey area
- Direct exposure to senior leadership and clients
- Defined opportunity to progress into a team-management position
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