Accounting Analyst

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✨ Accounting Analyst 📍 Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid) 🏢 Growing Investment Management Firm 💰 Competitive Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits

A highly respected investment management firm is seeking an Accounting Analyst to join its growing finance and operations team. This role offers a unique opportunity for professionals with strong accounting, finance, audit, tax, fund accounting, or investment operations experience to work within a sophisticated investment environment. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys working with large datasets, solving complex reconciliation challenges, improving processes, and partnering across finance, operations, and technology functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform accounting and reporting activities across a variety of investment vehicles and separately managed accounts.
• Prepare financial reports and support annual financial statement preparation.
• Assist with audits and other financial review processes.
• Reconcile cash activity, monitor cash flows, and maintain accounting records.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close processes, including reconciliations and investment valuation reviews.
• Analyze investment performance and prepare recurring management and client reporting.
• Partner with internal analytics and reporting teams to ensure data accuracy and consistency across systems.
• Normalize, validate, and reconcile large datasets for use within accounting and reporting platforms.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and data management workflows.
• Investigate data discrepancies, perform root-cause analysis, and drive issues through resolution.
• Support ad hoc reporting, projects, and business initiatives as needed.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Join a collaborative, highly tenured team with strong mentorship and career development opportunities.
• Gain exposure to sophisticated investment portfolios, alternative investments, and asset management operations.
• Work in a technology-forward environment that values automation, efficiency, and innovation.
• Opportunity to contribute to data transformation, reporting enhancements, and process optimization initiatives.
• Broad exposure across accounting, reporting, investment operations, analytics, and systems.

This is an excellent opportunity for an analytically minded accounting or finance professional who enjoys working at the intersection of accounting, data, technology, and investment operations.

For fastest consideration, reach out to Anisa Henry via email or LinkedIn.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
• 2-5 years of relevant accounting, finance, audit, tax, reporting, operations, or analytical experience.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, lookup functions, PivotTables, and large dataset analysis.
• Strong aptitude for financial systems, databases, and technology platforms.
• Experience performing reconciliations, data analysis, reporting, and process improvement.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to Have!

• Experience within investment management, asset management, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, or alternative investments.
• Familiarity with partnership, fund, or investment accounting.
• Experience with financial reporting systems and database applications.
• SQL and relational database experience.
• Exposure to Python, VBA, Power Query, or other automation tools.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or data visualization platforms.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar productivity technologies.
• CPA or progress toward certification is a plus.

For fastest consideration, reach out to Anisa Henry via email or LinkedIn.