Fund Accounting Manager - Brick City Capital

Leverage Companies•Newark, NJ

3d•$80,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Fund Accounting Manager is a key role within Leverage Companies’ finance team, responsible for the accounting and reporting of financial information of the Company’s debt fund. You will be responsible for everything accounting-related for the debt fund, ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded, all stakeholders/investors are provided up-to-date reports, and to ensure compliance in operating the fund.

Requirements

3–5 years of accounting experience — private lending, real estate, private equity, or fund accounting strongly preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
Strong working knowledge of GAAP and multi-entity accounting structures
Proficiency in QuickBooks — not just data entry, but a genuine understanding of COA design, class-based tracking, and entity structure
Comfort working across data exports, reconciliations, and multi-source financial tieouts
Tech-forward mindset: you see broken processes and you want to fix them, not work around them
Proficiency in Ramp or equivalent modern AP platform — we use Ramp for AP, expense management, and memo coding, and we actively adopt new features as they roll out
Active and comfortable user of AI tools in your day-to-day finance workflow — drafting, research, reconciliation support, process thinking. This is how we work, not an add-on
Ability to get into the details of a complex business quickly, ask the right questions, and operate with minimal hand-holding

Nice To Haves

Experience with fund accounting — investor capital ledgers, preferred returns, distributions, NAV calculations
Exposure to real estate entity accounting: acquisitions, development projects, or property management portfolios
Familiarity with Salesforce or any CRM/ERP used as a financial source of truth
Experience with or understanding of private lending mechanics: origination, warehouse lines, loan-level economics
CPA or active CPA candidate
Background in a high-growth, smaller-operator environment where building and fixing processes was part of the job
Familiarity with Ramp’s AI-assisted features — memo coding, automated categorization, or AP workflow automation

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the Fund Accountant as the team grows.
Reconcile, review, and approve all accounting entries related to the debt fund.
Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting close process; generate and distribute the financial statement package.
Review and deliver the management fees and investor waterfall calculations, ensuring all provisions of the fund agreement are followed.
Analyze agreements/side letters to ensure the fund is operating according to the agreements.
Oversee the calculation and distribution of investor capital calls and distribution notices.
Monitor the liquidity of the fund, including preparing weekly cash balance reports and owning the data entries surrounding ACH and wires.
Review and approve fund level expenses.
Ensure all requests for information from investors and other stakeholders are fulfilled in a timely and accurate manner.
Maintain the investor portal.
Create, document, and execute SOPs for all financial matters surrounding the debt fun; institutionalize the knowledge base across the organization.
Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund: period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management
Assist with revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division — tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources
Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures
Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution