A private equity firm in Connecticut is currently seeking a new GP Accountant for a promising opportunity with their growing team.
Responsibilities:The GP Accountant will be responsible for:

• Prepare/ review monthly/ quarterly trial balances, financial statements and supporting work-paper packages.
• Work directly with Fund Accounting and Corporate Accounting teams to ensure proper treatment of underlying fund-level activity, expense accruals and other intercompany activity.
• Work with PMs to account for and execute transactions related to GP balance sheet capital
• Prepare / review economic allocations and partner capital account roll-forwards.
• Work with public accounting firms on annual audits and tax reporting including estimates and K1s
• Calculate all contribution and distribution amounts for each GP member (including carried interest)
• Prepare all contribution and distribution notices, including detailed exhibits
• General cash management: monitoring contributions/ distributions (between the Funds as well as the GP members) and liquidity forecasting in advance of capital activity
• Preparation of quarterly / semi-annual capital account statements and schedule of investments.
• Participate with onboarding new members of the GP
• Participate in researching the implementation of 3rd party allocation engine or creation of a proprietary one
• Automate current processes and a multitude of other projects impacting the GP entities
• Codifying in memos ongoing changes in GP allocation

Qualifications:

• 3 years of Public and/or Combo Private Equity experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• Microsoft Excel proficient

Desired Skills:

• Partnership Accounting experience from a Private Equity Fund