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Fund Accounting Manager is a key role within Leverage Companies' finance team, responsible for the accounting and reporting of financial information of the Company's debt fund.
You will be responsible for everything accounting-related for the debt fund, ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded, all stakeholders/investors are provided up-to-date reports, and to ensure compliance in operating the fund.
What you will do:- Lead and manage the Fund Accountant as the team grows.
- Reconcile, review, and approve all accounting entries related to the debt fund.
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting close process; generate and distribute the financial statement package.
- Review and deliver the management fees and investor waterfall calculations, ensuring all provisions of the fund agreement are followed.
- Analyze agreements/side letters to ensure the fund is operating according to the agreements.
- Oversee the calculation and distribution of investor capital calls and distribution notices.
- Monitor the liquidity of the fund, including preparing weekly cash balance reports and owning the data entries surrounding ACH and wires.
- Review and approve fund level expenses.
- Ensure all requests for information from investors and other stakeholders are fulfilled in a timely and accurate manner.
- Maintain the investor portal.
- Create, document, and execute SOPs for all financial matters surrounding the debt fun; institutionalize the knowledge base across the organization.
Private Lending - Brick City Capital- Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund: period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management
- Assist with revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division - tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources
- Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures
- Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution
Location: Newark, NJ - On site
Salary Range: $80,000 - $110,000/year (Exempt/Salary)
What we are looking for:- 3-5 years of accounting experience - private lending, real estate, private equity, or fund accounting strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Strong working knowledge of GAAP and multi-entity accounting structures
- Proficiency in QuickBooks - not just data entry, but a genuine understanding of COA design, class-based tracking, and entity structure
- Comfort working across data exports, reconciliations, and multi-source financial tieouts
- Tech-forward mindset: you see broken processes and you want to fix them, not work around them
- Proficiency in Ramp or equivalent modern AP platform - we use Ramp for AP, expense management, and memo coding, and we actively adopt new features as they roll out
- Active and comfortable user of AI tools in your day-to-day finance workflow - drafting, research, reconciliation support, process thinking. This is how we work, not an add-on
- Ability to get into the details of a complex business quickly, ask the right questions, and operate with minimal hand-holding
What we Prefer to Find:- Experience with fund accounting - investor capital ledgers, preferred returns, distributions, NAV calculations
- Exposure to real estate entity accounting: acquisitions, development projects, or property management portfolios
- Familiarity with Salesforce or any CRM/ERP used as a financial source of truth
- Experience with or understanding of private lending mechanics: origination, warehouse lines, loan-level economics
- CPA or active CPA candidate
- Background in a high-growth, smaller-operator environment where building and fixing processes was part of the job
- Familiarity with Ramp's AI-assisted features - memo coding, automated categorization, or AP workflow automation
What we look for in all our employees:- A demonstrated track record of winning; we never stop at "just enough"
- An insatiable eagerness to continuously learn and to be coached; we are lifelong learners and always make ourselves available to others to teach us something new
- A possession of strong entrepreneurial spirit; we have a burning passion for building something great out of nothing
- A big vision for themselves and those around them; we always strive to be the best version of ourselves and help those around us do the same
- An unwavering sense of integrity; an individual who roots oneself with a core belief that how one does anything is how one does everything
Additional Information:Leverage Companies highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. Under certain circumstances, a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of 3 days in office in Newark, NJ may be arranged.
