The Fund Accountant will manage fund accounting, reporting, and post-trade operations. Responsibilities include maintaining financial statement accuracy, ensuring compliance, and collaboration across teams to support operational growth.
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.
In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
As a Fund Accountant, you will report directly to the Fund Finance Director. You will collaborate with talented colleagues across the company to help manage fund accounting, post-trade operations, reporting, and various projects. You will also collaborate closely with other operations teams and technical teams across the company to support growth projects and scale Voleon's infrastructure. This role is a means to make a difference: together with the Finance team, you will be a core member of running our daily operations and creating infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accuracy and provide key reporting, including the monthly and annual financial statements, tax compliance responsibilities, and treasury management related to our investment funds (across multiple asset classes and geographies)
- Work closely with our service providers to ensure policies and internal control standards are being followed
- Develop and monitor daily and monthly reconciliations between internal records, prime brokers, counterparties, banks, and the fund administrator
- Maintain the internal accounting system, produce daily and monthly trading profit and loss reports and AUM reports, and confirm settlement activity across trading strategies
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in hedge fund, public accounting for asset management, or fund administrator
- Thorough understanding of financial reporting and its application to investment management funds
- Experience working with enterprise-level accounting software
- Advanced abilities in Microsoft Excel
- Experience automating manual processes (preferred)
- Exposure to or interest in gaining experience with Python or SQL (preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, or Accounting
- Authorization to work in the United States
The base salary range for this position is $90,000 to $110,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program
If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $7,500 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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SQL
The Voleon Group Berkeley, California, USA Office
Downtown, Berkeley, CA, United States, 94704
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