Assistant Controller - Management Company

Whitecap Search is seeking a dynamic and skilled professional to join our finance team in a high-growth and multidisciplinary role. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to building and maintaining best-in-class financial operations. The role will involve financial reporting, accounting, financial planning & analysis, audit, and tax responsibilities. This position will be based in our new Florida office located in West Palm Beach.

• Work directly with the CFO and other senior management.
• Manage the monthly and quarterly closing activities and consolidated financial reporting of the management company entities in a timely, accurate, and efficient manner and in accordance with GAAP.
• Assist the CFO with the design and implementation of scalable accounting systems and processes and optimize corporate general ledger structure.
• Lead year-end tax preparation for the management company entities.
• Identify and help solve critical accounting and reporting issues.
• Maintain firm-level budget and build out FP&A capabilities to deliver business insights to the C-Suite.
• Responsible for Management Fees, Fee Offsets, and Expense allocations, including providing necessary information to fund accounting teams for quarterly reporting.
• Review expense allocations based on the firm's allocation policy; prepare and review Due from Funds and Portfolio Companies reports.
• Manage and report on Managing Partner's and Co-Founders' upper-tier entities, including all tax, legal, accounting, etc. work for their holding companies and/or ultimate parents, e.g., Trusts.
• Co-manage the expense reporting process for all employees in accordance with the firm's compliance policies.
• Answer accounting and financial inquiries by researching and interpreting data.
• Work with the Finance and Operations team on ad hoc projects and special requests to support the broader team, funds, and portfolio companies.
• Effectively communicate insights and evaluations to senior management.
• Help lead the buildout and reporting for the growing affiliate.

• CPA strongly preferred, undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, or other quantitative field required.
• 5-8 years of related finance or accounting experience, which may include public accounting; 3 years of experience working in the private equity industry is strongly desired. Management company experience required.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; high attention to detail.
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel required; experience with SAP Concur preferred.
• Ability to handle multiple deliverables and workstreams simultaneously and work within tight deadlines.
• Self-starter with a proven ability to work in a high-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Team player with strong interpersonal, communication (written and spoken), and organizational skills.
• Creative thinker and resourceful; process-oriented.