Senior Fund Accountant
Carta provides an intelligent platform for private capital operations, connecting data, workflows, and people. Its products support equity management, fund administration, portfolio analytics, compliance, tax, and related services for companies, funds, investors, and legal teams.
About Carta
Carta operates a platform for private capital that helps companies, private equity and venture capital firms, limited partners, and other financial organizations manage portfolios, move money, and model investment scenarios. Its offerings include equity and cap table management, valuations, compensation, liquidity, fund administration, fund tax, SPVs, deal CRM, portfolio valuations, loan operations, LP analytics, compliance, contracts, and attorney-led legal services. Carta combines software, AI capabilities, and expert human services for private capital workflows.
Skills
About the Role
You will join a highly dynamic team supporting Carta's Fund Administration business and its goal of becoming the leading Fund Administration group. In this role, you will partner with top venture capital firms to streamline their financial accounting needs. You will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, go-to-market and operations teams while growing your foundational knowledge of accounting in an engaging, fast-paced environment. You will help scale services for clients, bring transparency to founders, VCs, and LPs through tools like real-time IRR and portfolio data, and help turn a service industry into a software business through consulting with clients and implementing Fund Administration software.
Requirements
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Ability to judge when to make decisions versus escalate them
- Interest in providing best-in-class service
- Ability to communicate information in a timely appropriate manner to stakeholders
- Ability to multitask to meet multiple deadlines
- Understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Fund Administration
- Experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements
Responsibilities
- Support capital calls
- Provide audit and tax support
- Handle pre and post close services
- Prepare quarterly and annual financials
- Manage limited partner communications
- Provide clients with real-time IRR and portfolio data
- Provide additional data points such as TVPI and RVPI
- Work with product and engineering teams to develop the Venture Capital product suite
- Consult with clients and implement Fund Administration software
Benefits
- Equity for all full time roles
- Exceptional benefits