We have partnered with our client in their search for an Investment Accounting Support professional at the Senior Associate or Manager level. This individual will provide hands-on accounting support across complex investment portfolios, with a strong focus on reconciliations, controls, documentation, reporting, and close activities.
The role requires experience working across multiple investment asset classes, including securities, derivatives, private equity and alternative investments, fixed income, and public securities. The successful candidate will collaborate with accounting, reporting, operations, and investment teams to investigate issues, strengthen controls, and support accurate and complete investment accounting processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and execute investment accounting controls, supporting schedules, and working papers.
- Analyze and reconcile investment activity across multiple asset classes and complex portfolios.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks, out-of-balance conditions, and other accounting discrepancies.
- Maintain clear supporting documentation and audit-ready accounting records.
- Support investment accounting reporting, period-end close activities, and related deliverables.
- Partner with accounting, reporting, operations, and investment teams to research and resolve issues.
- Help ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of investment accounting processes and controls.
- Identify control gaps, reconciliation challenges, and opportunities to improve existing processes.
- Support process improvement initiatives involving reconciliations, controls, documentation, and reporting.
- Communicate accounting issues, findings, and required follow-up clearly to relevant stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on investment accounting experience within a complex, multi-asset-class portfolio environment.
- Demonstrated experience with investment reconciliations, accounting controls, working papers, and supporting documentation.
- Experience accounting for and reconciling multiple asset classes, including:
- Securities
- Derivatives
- Private equity and alternative investments
- Fixed-income investments
- Public securities
- Experience investigating reconciliation breaks and resolving out-of-balance conditions.
- Experience supporting investment accounting reporting and close activities.
- Ability to maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready records.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across accounting, reporting, operations, and investment functions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and documentation skills.
- Ability to work at either the Senior Associate or Manager level, based on the scope and depth of relevant experience.
Title Investment Accounting Support
Location Remote
Client Industry Insurance
Compensation $65-70/hr
About Korn Ferry
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