Boutique investment firm is ready to hire a part-time Accountant. This is a chance to support a long-standing Chicago based organization with a tight-knit team. Someone who works well autonomously is self-directed and has a love for numbers will succeed in this role.

Responsibilities

• Report directly to the VP of Finance
• Input weekly transactions – mainly partnership investment transactions (capital calls, cash & stock distributions), cash requests by family members, quarterly management fees, quarterly dividends/tiering distributions
• Quarterly Financials – custody account reconciliations, entering unrealized gain/loss on investments and other quarterly income/exp from custody account statements
• Quarterly Financials – create PDF from QuickBooks financials for preparing the quarterly financial statement e-book (approximately 35 entities)
• Filing all transactions and agreements on network; if necessary, print out for paper filing in office. Work with VP-Finance to continue converting office to paperless-scan/download various agreements
• Monthly checking account- bank recs
• Tax doc uploads/ PDF, fill out tax checklists
• Update various excel checklists
• Update various excel investment schedules with $ amounts of investment transactions
• Prepare emails for VP-Finance to send out including attachments (EX: e-file authorizations)
• Fill out forms as needed for tax, governance, other
• Run various reports off banking system for VP-Finance
• Shredding as necessary and per document destruction plan

Requirements

• Strong accounting skills, good with numbers
• Organized with good administrative skills
• Independent worker, good communicator – especially with remote working
• Team player – assist where needed
• Applications: MS Office (Word/Excel), QuickBooks, Adobe Standard (editing/comments/combining/organize pages), will access multiple investment portals to access documents
• Likes technology – has no fear of using various programs/applications/accessing e-docs
• Ability to come to office if necessary once COVID-19 is no longer a threat,

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