Accounting Analyst

Accounting Analyst Position Overview- Houston, TX

We are currently recruiting for an accounting analyst to join the team of an investment company for renewable energy. Accounting analysts can expect to work with large amounts of numerical data, handle multiple tasks with deadlines, and provide transparent and complete reports to management. To ensure success, accounting analysts should be prompt, honest detail-oriented, professional, and analytical.

Responsibilities:

You will be working directly with the US Controller in managing facilitating, assisting, performing, and reviewing the following:

• Cash, equity, position and valuation reconciliations
• Management and incentive fee calculations
• Review quarterly and annual financial statements
• Prepare and/or review journal entries
• Assist with capital calls and distributions
• Engage and source third party service provider agreements
• Coordinate preparation of tax returns
• KYC/Due diligence questionnaires
• Process improvements
• Training and development of staff
• Maintain banking relationships; facilitating opening of bank accounts
• Maintain relationship with account lead for banking and IT
• Review quarterly expenses and reconcile with portfolio companies
• Reconcile quarterly capital movements between Fund and portfolio companies

Qualifications:

• 3+ years private equity fund accounting experience required
• Analytical, technical, and technology skills with proficiency in accounting and administration for alternative investment funds
• Demonstrated experience in providing exceptional customer service
• Maintain a working understanding of limited partnership agreements and apply terms to financial reporting and income and expense allocations.
• Prepare and/or review journal entries, management fee calculations, interest calculations, loan covenant monitoring, investor allocations, capital account statements, capital call and distribution calculations, sources/uses of cash, investor notices, borrower interest statements, carried interest calculations and maintenance of waterfall models
• Coordinate the delivery of interest statements, capital call notices and distributions notices to clients, borrowers, and investors
• Prepare and/or review financial statements, notes disclosures, and supporting schedules
• Manage year-end process and handle requests from external auditors and tax teams
• Assess operational effectiveness and make suggestions for process development
• Ensure ad hoc requests from clients and investors are addressed in a timely manner
• 3+ years of progressive experience in public accounting or a combination of experience at an alternative asset investment firm and public accounting experience
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA preferred
• Excellent communication skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Enjoy solving complex problems
• Comfortable with change opportunity and growth

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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 125125 when responding to this ad.