Controllers, Investment Accounting Manager, Vice President, Dallas

Controllers, Investment Accounting Manager, Vice President, Dallas

OUR IMPACT

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is one of the world's leading investment managers. AWM provides institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning asset classes, industries, and geographies. We help our clients navigate today's dynamic markets, and identify the opportunities that shape their portfolios and long-term investment goals. We extend these global capabilities to the world's leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, individuals and family offices.

The Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group provides investors with investment and advisory solutions, across leading hedge fund managers, private equity funds, real estate managers, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies. The AIMS Group manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments. With over 200 professionals across eight offices around the world, the AIMS Group provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs' market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the world's leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over $150 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies and fixed income strategies

Controllers ensure that the firm meets all the financial control and reporting obligations of a global, regulated and public financial institution. In the Controllers Department, our professionals measure the profitability of, and risks associated with, every aspect of the firm's business. Controllers also ensure that the firm's activities are conducted in compliance with the regulations governing transactions in the financial markets. The investment accounting team within the Controllers Group is looking to add a Vice President level Manager in Dallas, TX

These responsibilities include investment and new product review, oversight of information prepared by third party administrators and ongoing design an execution of the control environment. The team works closely with other areas of AWM including investment, risk, client service, operations, technology, legal and compliance.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage a team responsible for the preparation of various regulatory reports, compliance reports and reports to Board of Directors related to funds
• Participate in new fund launches including the review of fund documentation (LPA/PPM/OM/Side Letters), fund set up, and vendor selection
• Support team, department, and business managers on various special projects
• Manage technology initiatives by providing scope of project, managing timeline, and coordinating testing

QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.S. or above in accounting or related field
• 8 years of experience
• CPA with investment company experience preferred
• Private equity experience preferable
• Strong technical knowledge of accounting and financial reporting
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills; detail orientated
• Ability to work independently and as a key member of a team in a fast-paced environment under challenging deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  Skilled in use of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

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