Fund Controller

Fund Controller Job Title Fund Controller Job ID 27769444 Work Hybrid Yes Location New York City, NY, 10017 Hybrid Other Location Description Wolfe Research, LLC is launching a new Alternative Asset Management business. Wolfe Alternative Asset Management (WAM) is a strategic expansion of the Wolfe brand into the alternative investment space. It is a membership-based platform offering a menu of curated, institutional-grade investment opportunities across venture capital, private equity, private secondaries, and a broad range of investment funds—including venture, private equity, hedge, and real estate funds—leveraging Wolfe Research’s trusted brand, reputation, and extensive network. Our mission is to deliver unparalleled access to alternative investments, supported by Wolfe’s research expertise and industry relationships, to drive superior, differentiated returns for institutional investors, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Ideal individual will have greater than 8+ years working in Fund Accounting to help launch the Alternative Asset Management Business. Keys roles: Liaise as the main point of contact for Finance with the Head of Alternative Asset group. Advise and assist on each SPV with regard to GAAP/Tax/Reporting considerations. Must be able to demonstrate ability to see upstream & downstream impacts and communicate factors to weigh which may drive outcomes of how the SPV’s are created and compiled. Will be responsible for the oversight of the Fund Admin relationship and all accounting ownership: Will heavily interact with Fund admin counterparts and be the main point of contact with respect to capital movements / corporate actions Must be capable of reviewing all Fund Admin output and offering suggestions / identifying errors. Will be responsible to ensure all Fund Admin output is correctly compiled and entered into our NetSuite GL. Will be responsible for working with the greater Wolfe finance team to ensure seamless movements within monthly close – ie Corporate Accounting / Treasury / FPA / Regulatory Experience with SPV roll up to an RIA is preferred. Must understand GAAP/TAX/Regulatory impact of the movements of the SPV and how they roll up in the SEC regulated world. Will be responsible for all tax ownership. Ie – Fund Admin produces Financials – This role reviews – hands off to Tax Accountants – this role will then review tax accountants outputs and then be responsible for tax filings and ownership. Will be responsible for conceptual thought process of future SPV set up. Ie working with Fund Admin & Tax accountants to ensure all language and processes being outlined are feasible, in-line and obtainable. The candidate will assist Head of Alternative Asset group as they build out the platform. Will be responsible for ad-hoc reporting Will be able to wear many hats as the business matures. Must possess an action first mentality. Managing the client interface/website for document, financial, valuation and p/l, communication updates, monitoring and tracking fund flows, managing capital calls to investors. Building and keeping responsibility for the WAM financial model, KPI’s and KPI tracking. Tracking and forecasting WAM cash flows. Vendor communication and negotiation. Assist with investor communication. Assisting with documentation on investments. Assist in financial due diligence of certain investments, in particular fund investments. Assisting to design and build fee structures into transactions. Assist in monitoring and managing WAM business costs. At Wolfe Research we feel passionately about equal pay for equal work and pay transparency is an integral practice for that. The compensation for this role is market competitive with a base salary range of $175,000-$200,000. We intend to offer the selected candidate a base salary within this range, based on non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to skill set, job-related experience, and location. In addition, we offer an annual discretionary incentive bonus and competitive employee benefits including: medical, dental and vision coverage; life, accident and disability insurance. Wolfe also offers paid time off packages that include vacation, sick days/leave, paid holidays and paid parental leave. About Wolfe: Wolfe Research, LLC is a premier independent sell-side research firm with a commitment to best-in-class content and ongoing strategic growth. We produce the most objective and distinguished research across our covered sectors, and deliver our services with intense care and specificity to each of our institutional clients. We strive for excellence in every facet of our business, and we will continue to differentiate ourselves by maintaining the highest standards for effort, client service, thoughtfulness, and integrity. Wolfe remains committed to providing a home for the top-ranked, most innovative and inspired analysts and sales people, and places significant emphasis and resources on mentoring talent. The firm has established a leading reputation for sector and macro research. Our QES product provides leading stock selection models, cutting edge portfolio analytics and hedging tools, highly ranked ESG product, and back-tested alternative data. Wolfe Research’s analysts were voted #6 on a weighted basis for equity research during 2025 by institutional clients in the prestigious “Institutional Investor” All-America Research Poll, trailing only significantly larger bulge bracket firms, who have historically not been viewed as our peers. We strive for excellence in every facet of our business, and we will continue to differentiate ourselves by maintaining the highest standards for effort, client service, thoughtfulness, and integrity. Wolfe remains committed to providing a home for the top-ranked, most innovative and inspired analysts and sales people, and places significant emphasis and resources on mentoring talent. For more information about Wolfe Research, please visit us at: www.wolferesearch.com Wolfe Research recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation, disability, age, citizenship or other characteristics. At Wolfe Research, we strive to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, to stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing integrity and objectiveness to our research process and we know our company’s biggest strength is the hard work, collaboration and diverse views and opinions of our passionate and creative employees. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply that diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different, also make us stronger.

Salary : $175,000 - $200,000