Private Credit Fund Controller

Private Credit Fund Controller

Requirements

• CPA is required
• Public/Private accounting experience preferred (Big 4 preferred)
• 12+ years of experience in investment management business with strong experience in Private Credit, Lending Platforms or Partnership/fund accounting, administration, and financial reporting
• Demonstrable record of leadership skills and collaboration with team leaders across functions
• Growth mindset focused on creating a thoughtful workplace geared towards efficient analysis and decision-making
• Strong drive and initiative
• Collaborative to effectively liaise with investment partners, platform/portfolio companies’ Finance team and colleagues as well as able to work independently
• Track record of building teams, coaching and training and developing bench strength
• Ability to review analytically as well as dive into the details
• Superior verbal and written skills including the ability to report upward in a summarized manner
• Strong U.S. GAAP technical accounting expertise
• Excellent organizational skills and interpersonal skills, including the ability to resolve internal differences and observe confidentiality
• Nimble and flexible to balance multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to take on a task and ‘run with it’ to conclusion is a critical characteristic of this role

Responsibilities

• Lead the finance team responsible for investor reporting, compliance with the fund agreements, management and financial reporting, performance measurement, and financial analysis for MidCap and Atlas platforms
• Review financial statements, partner allocations, capital account statements and performance reporting as prepared by junior members of the team
• Preparation of board materials and frequent interaction with the members of the board and audit committee
• Lead the process of issuing capital calls including performing reasonableness and analytical reviews
• Review the preparation of waterfall calculations and distributions to investors
• Review work of junior members of the team including journal entries, cash movements and monthly/quarterly closing work papers
• Review valuation memos and report to the Senior Controller any issues and assist in remediation
• Work with Corporate Controllers to report and record all monthly and quarterly corporate reporting (FRE reporting i.e. management fee, monitoring fee, NII as well as Incentive fee)
• Track several fee sharing and expense allocation arrangement between the Firm, the Fund and the underlying platform
• Oversee the reporting providing by the Finance team of the underlying platforms to ensure adherence to Apollo standards including delivery of data for Firm Fund HandOff (FFHO) process
• Partner on cross functional basis with Legal, Tax, Compliance and Corporate Controllers on ad-hoc projects as well as various tasks related to the Funds
• Assist in monitoring SOX compliance by performing internal controls and coordinating with internal audit
• Review and approve AP and AR batches attributable to the Funds and Platforms
• Work with internal and external tax counsel on investor and entity level tax reporting
• Work alongside the investment teams, Legal and Tax on Fund restructuring and Financing arrangements
• Liaise with Marketing and Investor Servicing teams on quarterly reporting and ad-hoc investor requests
• General support for Fund CFO and Senior Controller

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Investran or LemonEdge is a significant plus
• Exposure to complex fund structure with multiple jurisdictions and their filing requirements, a huge plus