Vice President, Real Assets Accounting - Digital Infrastructure

Vice President Of Accounting

Blue Owl is looking for a detail oriented, hands on and strategic accounting professional to manage one of their digital infrastructure closed end private equity funds. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company experiencing tremendous growth. The qualified Vice President will help the Company institutionalize existing practices and work with a highly collaborative team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead accurate, GAAP?compliant financial reporting for property?level and fund?level entities, including parallel funds and SPVs, ensuring timely delivery, proper presentation, reconciliations, variance analysis, and supporting schedules.
• Review and manage fund administrator deliverables, including journal entries, capital calls, distributions, NAV calculations, and investor pricing, ensuring adherence to fund documents and reporting deadlines.
• Manage global audit, tax, and regulatory filing processes (including Cayman, Jersey, and Luxembourg), coordinating with external auditors, fund administrators, and tax advisors.
• Serve as a primary accounting contact for lenders and institutional investors, including debt compliance reporting, investor reporting, and responses to financial inquiries.
• Prepare and present accounting, budgeting, reporting, and accounting system matters to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Oversee forecasting, cash flow planning, and fund return calculations to support investment performance monitoring and decision?making.
• Interpret limited partnership agreements, waterfall provisions, and financing documents to calculate investor returns, preferred returns, and carried interest.
• Monitor and enhance internal controls, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with company standards and support scalable operations.
• Build new processes from the ground up using software and AI tools to automate and reduce errors in population of supporting schedules, reconciliations, and review of financial reporting deliverables.
• Work directly with portfolio company accounting teams to reconcile various aspects of property level reporting to Blue Owl fund reporting monthly.
• Assist with actual cash flow inputs to valuation models and communicate with deal teams on deviations from expectations
• Review reporting submissions including AUM, returns, deployments, FX exposure, liquidity, etc.

Qualifications:

• Seven plus years of private equity real estate accounting experience.
• Understanding of complex fund structures including foreign currency exposure and hedging.
• Knowledge of REIT rules and tax implications, a plus.
• Experience working with third-party fund administrators.
• "Fair value" accounting background.
• Understanding of debt agreements.
• Ability to efficiently utilize excel spreadsheets and accounting software systems.
• Experience interpreting limited partnership agreement, long terms lease and mortgages.
• Experience with reporting investment activity to institutional investors.
• Experience with Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, and Jersey filing requirements preferred.
• Ability to communicate effectively with teams working in multiple locations both in the US and abroad.
• Strong ability to multitask and respond to urgent information requests while keeping weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting tasks on schedule.

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• CPA preferred.The base annual salary range for this Dallas and Chicago-based position will be $165,000-175,000. Actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's skill, experience, and qualification for the role. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance.

Blue Owl is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.