Senior Director, Fund Administration

Juniper Square is looking for a Senior Director, Fund Administration to oversee accounting deliverables to support ongoing success of Juniper Square’s Fund Administration customers.

About your role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team as we continue to evolve and scale Juniper Square’s fund administration service, filling a substantial market gap in the fund administration space.

What you’ll do

• Own the end-to-end fund accounting function for a book of real estate private credit clients, including NAV calculations, financial statement preparation, capital activity processing (calls, distributions, recallable capital), and fee/carry calculations

• Build and grow relationships with customers from sales to expansion opportunities to drive customer satisfaction and revenue growth

• Be hands on solutioning customer’s most complex problems; review and approve customer facing deliverables to ensure and drive consistent high quality results

• Lead strategic projects and work cross functionally on initiatives related to automation, reporting, product functionality, and new service offerings

• Act as a subject area expert by providing comprehensive, in-depth consulting to our clients and internal teams

• Act as a senior point of contact for client CFOs , controllers, and finance teams; manage escalations professionally, set and maintain service expectations, and proactively surface issues before they become problems

• Drive continuous improvement across workflows, controls, and documentation; partner with internal technology and product teams to improve how Juniper Square's platform supports real estate credit accounting needs

Qualifications

• 12+ years of private equity fund accounting experience with a fund administrator working on fund-level accounting and reporting, including complex fund structures and consolidations

• 5+ years experience managing and coaching high performing teams

• Bachelor’s degree required, with a degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or related discipline

• Deep understanding of complex accounting transactions, private equity investment structures, and reporting requirements for private equity funds

• Solid knowledge of waterfall, performance metrics ( IRRs ), distributions and capital call calculations