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 partner with top venture capital firms to streamline their financial accounting needs, working as part of a highly dynamic team supporting Carta's Fund Administration business. You'll have the opportunity to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, go-to-market and operations teams, all while growing your foundational knowledge of accounting in an engaging, fast-paced environment.
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
- Provide leverage to clients by understanding and prioritizing their needs while effectively scaling services
- Support capital calls
- Provide audit and tax support
- Provide pre and post close services
- Prepare quarterly and annual financials
- Manage Limited Partner communications
- Bring transparency to founders VCs and LPs to help clients make more accurate decisions
- Utilize tools such as real-time IRR and real-time portfolio data
- Provide additional data points such as TVPI and RVPI
- Improve product and software by working with product and engineering teams
- Consult with clients and implement Fund Administration software