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Fund Controller

Carta

Carta

Accounting & Finance
Multiple locations · Santa Clara, CA, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA · Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2024

The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.

Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems You'll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow. As a Fund Controller, you’ll work to:

  • Help provide leverage to our clients by understanding and prioritizing their needs while effectively scaling our CFO services. Some of the strategic support that we provide includes:
    • Capital calls and distributions
    • Audit/tax support
    • Pre/post close services
    • Quarterly and annual financials
    • Limited Partner communications
  • Bring transparency to founders, VCs, established General Partners and LPs and help our clients make more accurate decisions by helping them utilize our tools and resources such as:
    • Real-time IRR
    • Real-time portfolio data
    • Provide additional data points (TVPI, RVPI)
  • Improve our product and software through working with our product and engineering teams to continue to develop our Fund Administration product suite
  • Interact with clients and audit partners regularly to manage effective relationships
  • Review all client deliverables, including financial packages, capital calls, distributions and ad-hoc client requests
  • Ensure the accounting team is SOC compliant in all processes and procedures
  • Identify and improve historical data issues post customer onboarding.Partner with and train offshores teams on new tasks and workflows

The Team You'll Work With

The Fund Administration team at Carta is rapidly growing, and we have a proven product/market fit in the venture capital space. Our three main pillars of competency in Fund Administration at Carta are technical excellence, client management and innovation. We put our customers first, are willing to learn and grow, are problem solvers, work with urgency, ensure data security is a priority, project management effectively, maintain a professional community and work as one team.

About You

  • You have experience maintaining, managing and nurturing multiple client relationships and are interested in providing best-in-class-service
  • You have experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements
  • You have experience reviewing financial statements and footnotes, ensuring consistency with appropriate reporting framework
  • You have experience in understanding, interpreting and working on Waterfall calculations, management fees, and carried interest allocations
  • You have experience in working on complex entity structures and report consolidations
  • You have strong critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
  • You take pride in your ability to communicate effectively and are able to multitask to meet multiple deadlines
  • You have experience managing and monitoring the timely delivery of quality client deliverables
  • You have a deep understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Fund Operations/Administration
  • You have experience implementing accounting data into a general ledger system
  • You’re interested in working on projects in a fast paced environment with a supportive team and as an individual
  • You have experience leveraging technologies to automate processes and gain efficiencies
  • You have experience providing training and guidance to new and existing team members
  • 8+ years of experience in the Venture Capital or Private Equity industry
  • CPA or CMA preferred

Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:


$142,120.00 - $167,200.00 in Seattle, WA
$149,600.00- $176,000.00 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA & New York City, NY

We are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may vary from the amounts listed based on geography, experience and expertise, and other factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

Important Security Notice for Candidates

Our company has been targeted by individuals creating fake domains similar to ours to scam prospects and candidates. Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain. Be cautious of any requests for sensitive information or payments outside of our official channels. For more information about this type of scam, please review the guidelines provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you encounter any suspicious activity, please report it immediately to recruiting-systems@carta.com.

Awards and Acknowledgements

Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.

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