• Compensation: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 Per Year Plus Bonus

• Location: New York, New York
• Type: Perm
• Job #20793

A $3bn+ fundamental long-short investment firm focused on global equities and headquartered in midtown Manhattan is looking to hire a Controller. The Controller will report directly into the COO/CFO with responsibility over all fund accounting activities.  In addition, the Controller will support front office and back-office professionals in a variety of ad hoc projects.

Responsibilities:

• Lead month-end close/reconciliation process with the administrator.
• Lead year-end audits and tax preparation, including financial statements.
• Perform daily/monthly comparison of profit and loss.
• Review daily trade, position, tax lots and cash reconciliations between firm, prime brokers and administrator.
• Reconcile and resolve trade breaks between executing brokers, prime brokers and administrator to ensure timely settlement of trades.
• Recalculate, respond to, and process daily margin calls.
• Enter, review and ensure all daily cash wires are processed accurately.
• Assist with the preparation of daily reporting for front office.
• Maintain various elements of portfolio management system and order management system.
• Ad hoc requests/projects including reporting on exposure, P&L, preparing investor correspondence.

Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of experience at another buy-side firm or fund administrator, with prior experience in public accounting a plus.
• CPA is a plus
• Advance knowledge of Excel.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Extremely detailed oriented, with strong follow-up and willingness to go above and beyond.
• Committed, mature and hard-working with interest in growth and longevity.
• Collaborative team player.
• Ability to be resourceful and to self-teach.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg, Eze OMS, Advent Geneva a plus