Senior Fund Accountant
Carta operates an intelligent platform for private capital markets, connecting data, workflows, and people across portfolio management, cap tables, fund administration, and tax services. It serves private equity firms, venture capital firms, private corporations, and limited partners.
About Carta
Carta provides a platform that helps players in private capital—including private equity firms, venture capital firms, private corporations, and limited partners—manage portfolios, move money, and model the future with unprecedented connectivity. Its offerings combine cutting-edge AI with expert human service, including cap table management, fund administration, tax services (such as Carta Fund Tax and QSBS attestation), 409A valuations, compliance, and reporting tools. The platform emphasizes real-time visibility, agentic intelligence for productivity, strategic modeling for scenario planning, and end-to-end collaboration between firms, companies, investors, and partners. Carta serves a large client base including over 1.7 million equity holders, 50,000+ companies, and 9,000+ funds and SPVs, with clients ranging from venture capital funds to global private corporations operating across multiple countries.
Skills
About the Role
You will perform fund administration and accounting tasks, including handling investor transactions, preparing capital calls, producing NAVs (capital accounts, financial reports), and preparing annual financial statements. You will work closely with Product and Engineering teams to enhance fund accounting processes and pave the way towards automated fund administration. You will tackle challenges at the intersection of law, accounting, finance, regulation and tax, and proactively share knowledge with team members on how to best automate fund structures to strengthen processes and improve products.
Requirements
- Prior work experience in the preparation of fund accounts and financial statements in accordance with IFRS, US GAAP, Lux GAAP, etc.
- 4+ years of Accounting or Finance experience within the Funds industry preferred
- Strong understanding of complex fund accounting mechanisms specifically closed-end Funds
- Provide audit support
- Numerical Bachelor's degree, preferably within Accountancy/Finance
- In-depth knowledge and interest in the Private Equity, Venture Capital and Start up ecosystem
- Part-qualified ACA/ACCA accountant (not essential)
Responsibilities
- Perform fund administration and accounting tasks including handling investor transactions
- Prepare capital calls
- Produce NAVs including capital accounts and financial reports
- Prepare annual financial statements
- Enhance fund accounting processes by working with Product and Engineering teams
- Implement improvements toward automated fund administration
- Proactively share knowledge with team members on automating fund structures
- Provide audit support