Blue Owl

Vice President, Real Assets Accounting - Digital Infrastructure

Blue Owl$165K — $175K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of private equity real estate accounting experience
  • Familiarity with complex fund structures and foreign currency hedging
  • Knowledgeable about REIT rules and tax implications
  • Experience working with third-party fund administrators
  • Background in 'fair value' accounting
  • Understanding of debt agreements and their implications
  • Proficient in Excel and accounting software
  • Skilled in interpreting limited partnership agreements and mortgage contracts
  • Experienced in reporting to institutional investors
  • Familiar with filing requirements in Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, and Jersey
  • Strong communication skills in cross-location teams
  • Ability to multitask under tight deadlines

Responsibilities

  • Lead GAAP-compliant financial reporting for property and fund-level entities
  • Manage and review deliverables from fund administrators, ensuring compliance
  • Coordinate global audit, tax, and regulatory filings with external parties
  • Act as primary accounting contact for lenders and investors, handling compliance reporting
  • Prepare and present accounting and budgeting matters to senior management
  • Oversee forecasting, cash flow planning, and fund return calculations
  • Interpret complex financial documents to calculate investor returns
  • Enhance internal controls and compliance procedures for scalable operations
  • Develop new processes to automate financial reporting functions
  • Collaborate with portfolio company accounting teams for reconciliations
  • Assist with valuation model inputs and communicate with deal teams

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a fast-growing company
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Focus on institutionalizing best practices
  • Potential for career advancement in a key leadership role
  • Exposure to a variety of financial transactions and fund types
Full Job Description
Job Description

Blue Owl is looking for a detail oriented, hands on and strategic accounting professional to manage one of their digital infrastructure closed end private equity funds. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company experiencing tremendous growth. The qualified Vice President will help the Company institutionalize existing practices and work with a highly collaborative team.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead accurate, GAAP-compliant financial reporting for property-level and fund-level entities, including parallel funds and SPVs, ensuring timely delivery, proper presentation, reconciliations, variance analysis, and supporting schedules.
  • Review and manage fund administrator deliverables, including journal entries, capital calls, distributions, NAV calculations, and investor pricing, ensuring adherence to fund documents and reporting deadlines.
  • Manage global audit, tax, and regulatory filing processes (including Cayman, Jersey, and Luxembourg), coordinating with external auditors, fund administrators, and tax advisors.
  • Serve as a primary accounting contact for lenders and institutional investors, including debt compliance reporting, investor reporting, and responses to financial inquiries.
  • Prepare and present accounting, budgeting, reporting, and accounting system matters to senior management and key stakeholders.
  • Oversee forecasting, cash flow planning, and fund return calculations to support investment performance monitoring and decision-making.
  • Interpret limited partnership agreements, waterfall provisions, and financing documents to calculate investor returns, preferred returns, and carried interest.
  • Monitor and enhance internal controls, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with company standards and support scalable operations.
  • Build new processes from the ground up using software and AI tools to automate and reduce errors in population of supporting schedules, reconciliations, and review of financial reporting deliverables.
  • Work directly with portfolio company accounting teams to reconcile various aspects of property level reporting to Blue Owl fund reporting monthly.
  • Assist with actual cash flow inputs to valuation models and communicate with deal teams on deviations from expectations
  • Review reporting submissions including AUM, returns, deployments, FX exposure, liquidity, etc.


Qualifications:
  • Seven plus years of private equity real estate accounting experience.
  • Understanding of complex fund structures including foreign currency exposure and hedging.
  • Knowledge of REIT rules and tax implications, a plus.
  • Experience working with third-party fund administrators.
  • "Fair value" accounting background.
  • Understanding of debt agreements.
  • Ability to efficiently utilize excel spreadsheets and accounting software systems.
  • Experience interpreting limited partnership agreement, long terms lease and mortgages.
  • Experience with reporting investment activity to institutional investors.
  • Experience with Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, and Jersey filing requirements preferred.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with teams working in multiple locations both in the US and abroad.
  • Strong ability to multitask and respond to urgent information requests while keeping weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting tasks on schedule.
  • Bachelor's degree in related field.
  • CPA preferred.
    The base annual salary range for this Dallas and Chicago-based position will be $165,000-175,000. Actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's skill, experience, and qualification for the role. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance.

About Blue Owl

Blue Owl is an insurance company that uses data and technology to provide personalized insurance products to its customers. The company offers auto, home, and renters insurance, and uses artificial intelligence to determine the best coverage options for each customer. Blue Owl was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Blue Owl
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2020
5 Year Trend
+50%
Revenue
$50 million
NASDAQ

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