Fund Accountant

Carta
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/9/2024 CLOSED ON 7/15/2024

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fund Accountant position at Carta?

The Team You’ll Work With

The Fund Administration team at Carta is rapidly growing, and we have a proven product/market fit in the venture capital space. Our three main pillars of competency in Fund Administration at Carta are technical excellence, client management and innovation. We put our customers first, are willing to learn and grow, are problem solvers, deliver consistent on-time results, ensure data security is a priority, project management effectively, maintain a professional community and work as one team.

The Problems You’ll Solve 

  • Help provide leverage to our clients by understanding and prioritizing their needs while effectively scaling our services. Some of the strategic support that we provide includes:
    • Capital calls
    • Audit/tax support
    • Quarterly and annual financials
    • Limited Partner communications
  • Bring transparency to founders, VCs, and LPs and help our clients make more accurate decisions by helping them utilize our tools and resources such as:
    • Real-time IRR
    • Real-time portfolio data
    • Provide additional data points (TVPI, RVPI)
  • Improve our product and software through working with our product and engineering teams to continue to develop our Investor Services product suite
  • Turn a service industry into a software business through consulting with clients and implementing our Fund Administration software

The Impact You’ll Have

Our goal is to position Carta as the leading Fund Administration group. As a Fund Accountant at Carta, you will be part of a highly dynamic team to support our goal and the future of the Fund Administration business. In this role, you will partner with top venture capital firms to streamline their financial accounting needs. You will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally with our product, engineering, go-to-market and operation teams, all while growing your foundational knowledge of accounting in an engaging, fast-paced environment.

About You

We’re hiring across multiple levels of experience and are looking for someone that is interested in building their career at the intersection of technology and Fund Administration. Additionally, you’re open to constant change and learning as we continue to innovate.

  • You have strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, and accurately judge when to make decisions versus escalate them
  • You’re interested in providing best-in-class-service 
  • You communicate information in a timely, appropriate manner to all relevant stakeholders and are able to multitask to meet multiple deadlines 
  • You have an understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Fund Administration
  • You have experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements
  • You’re interested in working on projects in a fast paced environment with a supportive team and as an individual

Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our expected cash compensation (salary commission if applicable) range for this role is:

  • $71,145.00 - $83,700.00 in Seattle, Washington
  • $79,050.00 - $93,000.00 in New York City, New York, San Francisco, California & Santa Clara, California

Salary : $71,145 - $83,700

Senior Fund Accountant at Thriving Private Equity Fund
Robert Half -
San Francisco, CA
Senior Fund Accountant, Venture Capital
Robert Half -
San Francisco, CA
Senior Accountant - Fund & Client Operations
Robert Half -
San Francisco, CA

For Employer
Looking for Real-time Job Posting Salary Data?
Keep a pulse on the job market with advanced job matching technology.
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Fund Accountant?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Fund Accountant career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$68,569 - $85,391
Income Estimation: 
$67,025 - $95,268
Income Estimation: 
$85,254 - $106,864
Income Estimation: 
$124,998 - $172,745
Income Estimation: 
$68,569 - $85,391
Income Estimation: 
$67,025 - $95,268
Income Estimation: 
$85,254 - $106,864
Income Estimation: 
$124,998 - $172,745
Income Estimation: 
$85,254 - $106,864
Income Estimation: 
$67,025 - $95,268
Income Estimation: 
$104,898 - $136,272
Income Estimation: 
$124,998 - $172,745

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs with skills like those required for the Fund Accountant.

Click the checkbox next to the jobs that you are interested in.

  • Account Reconciliation Skill

    • Income Estimation: $63,913 - $88,561
    • Income Estimation: $70,069 - $96,235
  • Balance Sheet Analysis Skill

    • Income Estimation: $67,025 - $95,268
    • Income Estimation: $77,038 - $106,151
This job has expired.
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Carta

Carta
Hired Organization Address Hamilton, NJ Full Time
The Company You’ll Join Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful gro...
Carta
Hired Organization Address Sandy, UT Full Time
The Company You’ll Join Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful gro...
Carta
Hired Organization Address Seattle, WA Full Time
The Company You’ll Join Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful gro...
Carta
Hired Organization Address Santa Clara, CA Full Time
The Company You’ll Join Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful gro...

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Fund Accountant jobs in the San Francisco, CA area that may be a better fit.

Fund Accountant

Arrow Search Partners, San Francisco, CA

Hedge Fund - Senior Fund Accountant

Robert Half, San Francisco, CA