Fund Controller

About the job

A leading global private investment firm is seeking a Fund Controller to join its growing finance organization in New York. This is a high-visibility opportunity for an experienced private equity fund accounting professional to join a sophisticated investment platform with significant exposure to Sports, Media & Entertainment.

About the Company

The firm is a rapidly growing private investment platform with a differentiated strategy centered around Sports, Media & Entertainment, alongside investments across other industries.

The firm partners with founders, management teams and strategic investors to build and invest in high-profile businesses and assets across professional sports, media, entertainment and premium consumer sectors.

With continued fundraising, new investment vehicles and an expanding portfolio, the firm continues to build out its finance and fund accounting infrastructure.

About the Role

The Fund Controller will have broad ownership across the full lifecycle of complex private equity funds. This is an operational, hands-on position rather than a narrowly specialized or fund administration role.

The firm is specifically targeting candidates from large, sophisticated private equity and alternative asset management platforms, ideally $50B+ in AUM, such as Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Apollo, Ares or comparable firms.

Candidates from high-quality mid-sized PE/private credit platforms will also be considered where they have broad ownership across the fund accounting process.

Key Responsibilities

• Own quarterly and annual fund closes and financial reporting

• Manage GP/LP structures, capital calls and distributions

• Review LP/investor allocations and management fee calculations

• Manage realized and unrealized carried interest waterfalls

• Support initial and subsequent fund closings

• Oversee subscription and NAV facilities

• Review and interpret LPAs and governing documents

• Monitor fund liquidity and cash forecasting

• Calculate/review IRR, TVPI, DPI and MOIC

• Manage complex structures including parallel funds, SPVs and co-investments

• Oversee third-party fund administrators rather than relying on them to own the process

• Support GP/employee funds, leverage programs and related structures

• Partner closely with investment, tax, legal and investor relations teams

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of relevant accounting experience

• Significant hands-on private equity fund accounting experience

• Strong preference for experience within a $50B+ institutional PE/alternative asset manager

• Candidates must have operated directly on the buy side and owned meaningful portions of the fund accounting process

• Strong understanding of the full PE fund lifecycle

• Experience with capital activity, allocations, waterfalls, financial reporting and administrator oversight

• Ability to operate across multiple areas rather than being narrowly specialized within one function

• Experience working with complex fund structures in a demanding, high-volume environment

• Strong understanding of PE fund accounting fundamentals from day one

• Experience with systems such as Investran, Allvue, eFront, Geneva or similar preferred

• CPA and/or Big 4 foundation preferred

Why Join?

• Unique exposure to Sports, Media & Entertainment investing

• Join a premier and rapidly growing private investment platform

• High visibility with senior finance and investment leadership

• Broad ownership across the entire fund lifecycle

• Complex, intellectually challenging fund structures

• Strong Fund Controller career trajectory

• Continued fundraising and platform expansion

• Significant long-term compensation upside