Fund Controller Resume
Summary : As a Fund Controller, worked across teams and vendors towards a shared objective; supervised the fund treasury and liquidity management process (including, capital calls, distributions, and coordination with the financing team); built and ran investment-level waterfall and performance calculations.
Skills : Financial Management, Investment Knowledge.
Description :
- Directed responsibility for the accounting and reporting for multiple complex private equity funds with exposure to both public and private investments across commercial, residential, and specialty finance asset classes.
- Exposured will be unparalleled compared to roles at other institutions; constantly striving to learn and understand outstanding asset classes, fund and investment structures, and new products.
- Developed solutions to ensure appropriate accounting and controls were in place.
- Developed and implemented robust investor and management performance reporting at the asset, fund, and investor levels.
- Handled the external audit, regulatory reporting, and other reporting requirements.
- Coordinated and interacted with the portfolio management team on investment-related reporting matters and transactions.
- Led and coordinated the fund administrator through SLAs/critical metrics and site visits.
Experience
10+ Years
Level
Senior
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Finance
Fund Controller Resume
Summary : As a Fund Controller, responsible for reviewing client reports and financial statements for accuracy and completeness while meeting all internal and external reporting deadlines; managing technical research and application of US GAAP to accounting issues pertaining to investment companies and issues occurring in the investments.
Skills : Understanding of financial markets, Financial planning.
Description :
- Led investor and counterparty due diligence meetings; led the coordination and project management of critical Alternative Funds Finance team projects and initiatives.
- Coordinated the fund's payment and expenses process to ensure compliance with the fund documents and timely and accurate execution and reporting.
- Utilized internal and external resources to respond to client, prospective client, and client consultant requests for information in a timely and accurate manner.
- Implemented accounting and reporting for complex legal and tax investment structures that cross multiple jurisdictions.
- Facilitated discussions between the client and internal groups, and managed all required documentation relative to the discussion.
- Reviewed and analyzed capital structures for investments to determine what the accounting and related data requirements should be between the investment and fund.
- Reviewed capital calls, distributions, and valuation activity for investments of the client.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Finance
Fund Controller Resume
Headline : As a Fund Controller, responsible for serving as the primary point of client contact and managing the client relationship with the ability to triage questions and requests as well as provide guidance on private equity accounting and reporting.
Skills : Understanding of financial markets, Financial planning.
Description :
- Performed any additional responsibilities that may be required by management in support of the ongoing development of the client.
- Ensured financial data was accurate according to the client-prescribed method of accounting, and ensured that reporting deadlines were met.
- Interpreted investment legal documentation and other source documents with a US GAAP application for investment companies is critical.
- Applied professional principles, practices, and techniques to handle client relationships with innovative technology skills and processes.
- Led a team of accounting professionals of varying skill and expertise levels, overseeing and reviewing work to ensure all applicable standards were met.
- Prepared the daily pricing model and review of the NAV calculation, including cash and position reconciliation, custodian reconciliation, variance research and analysis, 40act and Fund compliance, wire facilitation, budgeting, revenue and expense analysis, review of monthly accruals, posting journal entries and approving and payment of expenses.
- Reviewed quarterly/annual financial statement analysis, including review of supporting files for inclusion into the Funds SEC and marketing filings including review of Form N-CSR(S), N-CEN, and NPORT filings prepared by the Fund administrator.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Accounting
Fund Controller Resume
Objective : As a Fund Controller, responsible for reviewing annual and semi-annual reports and ensuring compliance with GAAP reporting requirements; reviewing and/or preparing supporting information for SEC filings preparing and/or reviewing Board reports and assisting in the renewal of clients Fidelity and E&O insurance policies; attending Board of Director meetings for fund clients as a representative of ALPS.
Skills : Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Analysis.
Description :
- Planned, directed, and supervised the efforts of a team to understand client requirements and deliver quality services on time in an efficient manner.
- Supervised employees to ensure quality and productivity; worked collaboratively with technology and support personnel and maintained a thorough knowledge of system capabilities and best practices.
- Oversaw all administration services and acted as a primary client contact for a group of clients.
- Performed in a high-level contributor role demonstrating expertise in the mutual fund industry, multiple lines of business, business processes, and the customers’ business.
- Worked closely with the front office, operations, client solutions, legal and compliance teams to ensure smooth operations of the day-to-day and timely fulfillment of routine and ad-hoc requests such as internal inquiries, external due diligence requests, and other ad-hoc requests.
- Reviewed the reconciliations between the Fund records and the custodian records, and supervised accounting staff’s schedules and workloads.
- Coordinated with external property manager accounting staff to ensure timely deliverables of financials and reports that feed into the fund’s reporting obligations.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Finance
Fund Controller Resume
Summary : As a Fund Controller, Assisted with the Quarterly Reporting to the Limited Partners; supervised employees to ensure quality and productivity, supervised and oversaw a third-party provider of Fund Accounting services and an internal accounting team who will be responsible for the day-to-day accounting and internal and external financial reporting.
Skills : Communication, Team Management.
Description :
- Reviewed and approved annual operating expense budgets, and monthly expense payments (including 12b-1 payments from the Funds) and monitored budgeted versus actual expenses.
- Monitored fund expense ratios and make sure they are in line with the projected budget.
- Coordinated with internal teams at ALPS to facilitate implementation of new industry regulations or special projects for client initiatives and provide general assistance to clients on accounting and reporting matters.
- May served in an officer capacity for fund complexes, including as Principal Financial Officer in which Sarbanes-Oxley certifications are required Managerial responsibilities, including hiring, conducting performance appraisals, career planning, and administering disciplinary actions.
- Ensured accurate client billing, internal management reporting, enforcing company policies and procedures, and recommending enhancements to internal business processes, policies & procedures.
- Worked with other team members to lead the financial reporting and administration operations of our clients. In conjunction with the Engagement Manager, the Fund Controller is responsible for fund accounting, capital account maintenance, and financial statement preparation for clients.
- Assisted with the preparation of information and data for Capital Calls, Distributions, and Allocations to Investors, detailed management and tracking of portfolio company financings.
Experience
10+ Years
Level
Senior
Education
BBA
Assistant Fund Controller Resume
Summary : As an Assistant Fund Controller, managed and coordinated audits, assisted in the preparation of operating budget projections, managed Investor capital calls and distributions, managed daily cash management and accounts payable, and also ensured all fund transactions were properly posted to the accounting system.
Skills : Taxation, Fund Administration.
Description :
- Managed the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statement closing process.
- Supervised third-party administrators and other third-party service providers.
- Managed, trained, and developed supporting staff; recognized areas of reporting inefficiency between the service providers and Wellington, and collaborated with internal system consultants to develop and integrate customized automated reports.
- Assisted in the preparation and review of the fund’s annual financial statements.
- Experienced public accounting experience; assisted in the development and design of new fund initiatives.
- Directed the implementation as it relates to the financial operations and monitor its ongoing compliance.
- Ensured operational aspects of new fund initiatives addressed financial and tax considerations.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Finance
Fund Controller Resume
Headline : As a Fund Controller, responsible for collaborating with the tax team on foreign investors' tax withholdings as applicable, reviewing interim financial statements and covenant calculations in fulfillment of the Funds lender requirements, including lender reporting requirements; coordinating year-end audits with external auditors, and also managing investor requests and data submissions to investors in their prescribed format in coordination with the investor relations team.
Skills : Taxation, Fund Administration.
Description :
- Maintained an active relationship with the corporate accounting, IT, capital markets, compliance, and internal and external legal and tax teams.
- Maintained a close professional relationship with the property accounting team and asset and portfolio management teams to facilitate timely and accurate accounting and reporting.
- Managed the accounting team's participation in the acquisitions, leveraging, and disposition of assets and overseeing preparation/review of settlement documents, due diligence work, and transaction recording.
- Reviewed the Fund’s annual business plans and budgets, including a review of income and expense projections, and certain ownership-related cost budgets.
- Understood capital structure of the fund and underlying joint ventures, where applicable; interpreted joint venture and fund operating agreements and ensured equity allocation, carried interest, and incentive and management fees were calculated in accordance with underlying agreements.
- Monitored actual and projected cash flows and liquidity requirements for the Fund, ensuring that appropriate capital calls and distributions were made in a timely manner on a basis consistent with the underlying operating agreements.
- Maintained complete and accurate records of all capital contributions and distributions and issued capital statements quarterly.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Finance
Fund Controller Resume
Objective : As a Fund Controller, Performed oversight of external Administrators financial accounting and reporting responsibilities, including review of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, capital call and distributions, and other cash management activities, being the point person for questions/issues raised by Administrator, and performed periodic desktop audits to ensure Administrator is in compliance with contractual obligations and to ensure strong internal controls environment
Skills : Risk Management, Financial Reporting.
Description :
- Reviewed annual and semi-annual reports, assist with audits, and provided support as necessary.
- Reviewed and/or prepared supporting information and performed an initial review of SEC filings (e.g., N-SAR, N-CSR, N-Q, 24F-2, N-1A,).
- Assisted and supported the Fund Controller on administrative services related to each client (e.g., financial reporting, fund performance, expenses, compliance) and on any other projects as requested by the Fund Controller.
- Assisted in the review of the annual operating expense budgets, reviewed monthly expense payments, (including 12b-1 payments from the Funds), and monitored budgeted versus actual expenses.
- Reviewed fund expense ratios and made sure they were in line with the projected budget.
- Provided review of performance and other such calculations for funds, reviewed monthly financial statements produced by property managers for Funds, and Managed Accounts including.
- Assisted in property set-up, onboarding of new JVs, and interacting with Property, Asset, and Portfolio Managers.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's In Accounting
Fund Controller Resume
Summary : As a Fund Controller, I am responsible for preparing analytical reports for Management, Fund Boards, and other stakeholders, reviewing and analyzing the Key Performance Indicators and Key Risk Indicators of the Funds (monthly review/exceptions reports from delegates), reviewing the Fund expenses and the related calculation of ongoing charges.
Skills : Accounting Expertise, Regulatory Compliance.
Description :
- Worked directly with the Fund Management and Fund Analysts to provide the accounting and financial reporting data points for inclusion in the fund model.
- Provided periodic updates and analysis of the funds’ performance to MREM’s executive team (in coordination with the asset management team).
- Managed a 3 – 5 member Core Fund accounting team and completed all related performance management activities.
- Managed the accounting and investor reporting for some of the private equity funds managed by Mariner Real.
- Served as a single point of contact for internal fund managers, portfolio managers, and asset managers.
- Assisted with the annual audit process, working closely with fund auditors and service providers.
- Provided knowledge, input, and support to internal customers and to the service provider.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
Bachelor's Degree In Finance
Fund Controller Resume
Headline : As a Fund Controller, responsible for analyzing all data and reports and ensuring the resolution of all investor queries developing financial statements for funds and capital statements for all investors; maintaining the existing customer base and ensure optimal level of client satisfaction and resolving all issues and queries for customers; and also supervising all administration services for clients and perform audit in coordination with tax managers.
Skills : Accounting Expertise, Regulatory Compliance.
Description :
- Performed research and procured the best insurance policies for protecting fund properties.
- Performed internal audits and ensured accounting transactions were in compliance with fund policies.
- Reconciled general ledger and assisted the Fund Accounting Manager, developed effective financial reporting processes, and prevented losses arising from manual and technical errors.
- Prepared financial statements on a monthly basis and prepared schedules to perform audits on statements.
- Evaluated and ensured accuracy in all NAVs performed daily cash reconciliations and resolved all cash breaks effectively, managing all communication with third-party administrators.
- Coordinated with investor relations and legal team to resolve all accounting and process issues and supervised all administrative functions to perform net asset calculation.
- Administered all fund financial statements on an annual basis, prepared schedules for all investors, and evaluated all details for payments and fees for processes.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor's In Finance
