Investment Accounting Manager - Nuveen Private Funds Finance

The Lead Investment Accountant job provides expertise and leads the review of accounting policies and procedures, ensuring they are correctly applied to financial transactions. This job works directly with asset management, portfolio management and acquisition/disposition teams. In addition, this job guides a team to prepare month‑end closing reports and subsidiary quarterly financial analytics, and reports to senior management ensuring accurate asset evaluations.

• Reviews Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) work papers and supporting schedules to satisfy all investment accounting requirements for internal and external audits.
• Identifies key financial takeaways and information for joint ventures to ensure compliance with investment accounting policies and procedures (sales, acquisitions, debt refinancing, real estate investment trust (REI) restructuring and financial performance).
• Reviews frequent and ad‑hoc financial inquiries into the monthly and quarterly reports, adding value by providing management insight into the activities of the underlying properties.
• Analyzes calculated unlevered and levered, gross and net portfolio performance returns and property internal rates of return.
• Provides expertise and advice on modified cash basis accounting information provided by third party management firms to accrual basis to facilitate preparation of fair value GAAP basis financial statements.
• Manages large processes in reporting and investment accounts, along with guiding and mentoring lower level professionals.

• University (Degree) Preferred

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Sedentary Work

8IC

• 5+ years of accounting and financial statement reporting experience

• 7+ years of accounting and financial statement reporting experience
• Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Experience in Alternative Investment accounting
• In depth knowledge of partnership accounting, investment management and alternative products
• Experience with Global Investment Performance Standards
• Experience interacting with internal and external auditors
• Attention to details and ability to multi‑task
• Excellent organization skills
• Proven track record for managing complex projects and transactions
• Experience with WSO, Advent Geneva, Efront, MS Suit

• Oversee accounting processes for unregistered funds and separate accounts with investments in corporate and convertible bonds, senior loans, collateralized obligations, equity securities, and derivatives
• Oversee a global team of accounting professionals; provides direction to team for related daily operating activities.
• Identify areas of improvement and implement necessary enhancements
• Participate in new product launches and advise on requirements, processes, risks and costs from a Finance perspective
• Represent Finance team in technology enhancement working groups
• Fund financial statement preparation and review
• Monthly, Quarterly NAV closes
• Calculation of management, incentive fees
• Expense tracking and approvals
• Service provider review
• Advise clients on various Ad‑hoc inquiries

Accountability, Accounting Standards, Business Acumen, Client Relationship Management, Collaboration, Communication, Compliance, Data‑Driven Business Intelligence, Due Diligence, Executive Presence, Financial Acumen, Financial Modeling, Financial Risk Management, Financial Statements, Fund Accounting, Market/Industry Dynamics, Stakeholder Engagement, Story Telling

Base Pay Range: $88,900/yr - $145,000/yr

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non‑annual sales incentive plans, or other non‑annual incentive plans).

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