Baker Tilly US India | PE Fund Administration Services- Associate Manager

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review journal entries, cash reporting, and financial statements, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery; escalate complex or judgmental matters to engagement leadership as appropriate.
• Support the quarterly and annual financial reporting process by preparing and reviewing reporting packages, analyzing key variances, and providing findings and supporting information to the client-facing engagement team.
• Prepare and review capital call and distribution calculations and notices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with applicable fund agreements.
• Research and provide information to assist the client-facing engagement team in resolving client or investor inquiries.
• Partner with Managers and the client-facing engagement team to support the timely and accurate delivery of fund accounting and reporting services.
• Oversee the accuracy, completeness, and timely maintenance of information and documents within client investor portals.
• Coordinate and review audit schedules, confirmations, reconciliations, and supporting documentation, and monitor auditor requests and follow-up items through completion.
• Identify and support the implementation of process improvements that increase efficiency, standardize workflows, enhance quality, and support timely delivery of client work.
• Review work performed by team members, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, internal policies, and client-specific requirements, and escalating significant issues as appropriate.
• Support Managers with day-to-day workload coordination, operational initiatives, and continuous process improvements across assigned engagements.
• Mentor and develop Seniors, Associates, and Junior Associates by providing technical guidance, day-to-day coaching, and feedback.
• Prepare and review management fee calculations, carried interest calculations, distribution waterfalls, fund-level and investor-level allocations or rebalancing, and other complex fund calculations, escalating complex or judgmental matters as appropriate.
• Take ownership of assigned funds, workstreams, and projects, and support the day-to-day delivery of client engagements with appropriate Manager oversight.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6+ years of overall experience, including at least 4 years of relevant experience in private equity fund accounting or fund administration.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS and private equity fund accounting principles.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision and collaboratively within engagement teams.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills. Experience with Investran or a similar fund accounting system is preferred.
• Professional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and managing changing priorities.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify issues, research questions, propose solutions or appropriate escalation, and manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Baker Tilly US, LLP

The firm's roots in the United States go back to 1931, when it began as Virchow, Krause & Company, and the current partnership was organised in 1953. It joined Baker Tilly International in 1999 and took the Baker Tilly name in 2009. It has since grown through mergers with ParenteBeard in 2014 and Squar Milner in 2020, among others. Baker Tilly provides audit and assurance, tax, and advisory services, with a CPA firm handling attest work and a separate advisory group handling tax and consulting. In 2023 it formed a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services, called BT Pierian, to add service delivery capacity in India across assurance, advisory and managed services.

The openings are mostly in Bengaluru, with some roles in Gurugram and Kochi. US tax roles at manager and senior manager level ask for CPA, CA or an Enrolled Agent certification. Assurance and internal audit roles prefer CA, CPA or CIA. Other postings cover accounting advisory, transaction advisory, business valuation, corporate finance advisory, FP&A, treasury, cash applications, billing, private equity fund services and managed accounting services. Roles run from associate to senior manager, and the accounting advisory roles in Gurugram ask for CA, CPA or ACCA.

• Industry: Accounting, tax, assurance and advisory services, including managed accounting services
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States (U.S. member firm of Baker Tilly International)
• In India: BT Pierian, a joint venture with the Indian firm Pierian Services formed in 2023; finance and accounting roles in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Kochi