Senior Controller - Family Office
Senior Controller - Family Office
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Job Description
Note: This position requires employees to be on-site five days a week at theManhattan OR Boca Raton FL office (with hybrid flexibility after 6 months subject to performance and tenure).
Note: The qualified candidate for this position must have at least 10 years of relevant accounting experience including hands-on investment accounting with capital calls distributions and waterfall calculations.
About Our Client
Our client is a sophisticated and discreet private family office managing over $1 billion in assets across public markets alternatives and global real estate holdings. With offices in Boca Raton FL and New York City they operate with a small long-tenured team that values hands-on expertise accountability and discretion.
Job Description
- Own all accounting and financial operations across a wide range of domestic and international entities
- Manage general ledger journal entries reconciliations and monthly quarterly and annual reporting
- Oversee investment accounting across public securities (including options and derivatives) private equity hedge funds and real estate
- Track capital calls distributions and perform waterfall calculations
- Review and interpret subscription and fund documents
- Supervise a junior controller/bookkeeper and liaise with external auditors and tax advisors
- Ensure compliance with global trust structures and support trust accounting
- Maintain and enhance internal controls accounting processes and reporting accuracy
- Support operational cash management funding allocation and intercompany activity
- Contribute to ongoing optimization of proprietary reporting and accounting systems
Qualifications
- 10 years of relevant accounting experience (family office fund accounting trust/estate structures or investment firms strongly preferred)
- Strong hands-on experience with capital calls distributions and waterfall modeling
- Able to interpret fund documents and subscription agreements
- Exposure to public securities (options swaps ETFs) alternatives and private investments
- Experience with domestic and international trust structures
- CPA is preferred but not required
- Must be highly organized detail-oriented and comfortable working directly with principals
- Must have a long-tenure career history (job-hoppers will not be considered)
Why This Is a Great Opportunity
- Join a lean high-performing family office managing over $1B in assets
- Work directly with principals on complex accounting and investment structures
- Opportunity to own the finance function and grow into a potential CFO track
- Competitive compensation and full benefits package
- Be part of a low-turnover relationship-driven environment that values long-term contributors
JPC-355
Must have 10 years of relevant accounting/finance experience. Must have extensive hands-on accounting experience including capital calls and waterfall calculations. Must have experience working in a family office investment firm or similar environment with trust and investment structures. CPA helpful but not required. HARD NO ON JOB HOPPERS. Relo okay but no packages.
From client: Their (the principles) primary concern is to ensure the individual has strong investment accounting background and is able to track capital calls and distributions calculate waterfalls etc. They should be able to read a subscription agreement and understand these things. They invest in public securities (options derivatives) alternatives and real estate. There is a large international exposure (from an investment standpoint and in terms of our trust structures) and trust accounting.
Employment Type
Full Time
