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Fund Controller jobs are open across private equity, hedge funds, real estate investment, and asset management, from senior associate to VP and director level, with specializations in NAV reporting, investor accounting, and regulatory compliance. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
The Ares Secondaries team specializes in secondary market transactions of private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure investments with AUM of approximately $46 billion as of September 30, 2026. The team is currently looking to hire a Vice President to join our dynamic Finance team of approximately 45 professionals located in our West Hartford, CT, Boston, MA, New York, NY and Mumbai locations.
Primary functions and essential responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Own and review quarterly and periodic funds accounting, NAV, financial reporting, and investor capital activity for evergreen private markets funds.
- Manage complex fund-level and investor-level waterfall calculations, including preferred returns, return of capital, catch-up provisions, carried interest/performance allocations, and related NAV-based accruals.
- Oversee investment allocations across vehicles, classes, sleeves, and investors, ensuring allocations are consistent with governing documents and approved methodologies.
- Manage capital allocations, subscriptions, redemptions/repurchases, reinvestment, distributions, and other investor activity associated with an evergreen structure.
- Coordinate portfolio cash-flow forecasting and liquidity planning to support investment deployment, investor liquidity, unfunded commitments, and appropriate cash reserves.
- Support NAV and other fund financing facilities, including borrowing-base calculations, covenant monitoring, drawdowns, repayments, interest and fee accruals, lender reporting, and reconciliation to the funds
- Partner with investment team, treasury, legal, tax, operations, valuation, investor relations, administrators, auditors, and lenders to ensure accurate and timely execution of funds activity.
- Interpret limited partnership agreements, offering documents, side letters, credit agreements, and other governing documents and translate economic terms into accounting and operational processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes, automation, data integrity, and scalability as the funds grows.
- Support audits, financial statements, regulatory reporting, investor reporting, and ad hoc analysis.
- Supervise and develop staff at all levels with demonstrated ability to work with others through challenges and career development while providing ongoing training and feedback.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or economics; MBA, CFA, or CPA is a plus
- 10+ years of related financial experience is required, which may include public accounting.
- Significant private equity, secondaries, private credit, alternatives, or other private funds accounting/operations experience.
- Demonstrated experience with complex partnership waterfalls, carried interest or performance allocations, and investor capital accounting.
- Strong understanding of investment and capital allocation methodologies, NAV calculations, liquidity management, and private fund structures.
- Experience with NAV facilities, subscription facilities, or other fund-level financing arrangements strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting evergreen, open-ended, interval, perpetual-capital, or similar structures is highly desirable.
- Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills; experience with private-markets accounting and reporting platforms is preferred.
- Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to independently manage complex, high-volume processes with multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
- Experience working with third party administrators is a plus.
General Requirements:
- Strong management skills, including proven experience of managing and/or collaborating with teams in remote locations to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and high level of supervisory oversight.
- Proven team player with stakeholder management skills.
- Strong relationship building skills with internal and external business clients, including third party administrators.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- High accuracy and detail orientation.
- Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deliverables.
- Ability to work independently within a fast-paced environment with a hands-on approach.
- Dependable, great attitude, highly motivated and a team player.
- Working understanding of evergreen vehicles with complex structures and allocations.
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office, eFront Software and reporting skills a plus.
Reporting Relationships
Principal, Fund Accounting & Portfolio AnalyticsCompensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
$180,000 - $220,000
The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.
Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
The Ares Secondaries team specializes in secondary market transactions of private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure investments with AUM of approximately $46 billion as of September 30, 2026. The team is currently looking to hire a Vice President to join our dynamic Finance team of approximately 45 professionals located in our West Hartford, CT, Boston, MA, New York, NY and Mumbai locations.
Primary functions and essential responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Own and review quarterly and periodic funds accounting, NAV, financial reporting, and investor capital activity for evergreen private markets funds.
- Manage complex fund-level and investor-level waterfall calculations, including preferred returns, return of capital, catch-up provisions, carried interest/performance allocations, and related NAV-based accruals.
- Oversee investment allocations across vehicles, classes, sleeves, and investors, ensuring allocations are consistent with governing documents and approved methodologies.
- Manage capital allocations, subscriptions, redemptions/repurchases, reinvestment, distributions, and other investor activity associated with an evergreen structure.
- Coordinate portfolio cash-flow forecasting and liquidity planning to support investment deployment, investor liquidity, unfunded commitments, and appropriate cash reserves.
- Support NAV and other fund financing facilities, including borrowing-base calculations, covenant monitoring, drawdowns, repayments, interest and fee accruals, lender reporting, and reconciliation to the funds
- Partner with investment team, treasury, legal, tax, operations, valuation, investor relations, administrators, auditors, and lenders to ensure accurate and timely execution of funds activity.
- Interpret limited partnership agreements, offering documents, side letters, credit agreements, and other governing documents and translate economic terms into accounting and operational processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes, automation, data integrity, and scalability as the funds grows.
- Support audits, financial statements, regulatory reporting, investor reporting, and ad hoc analysis.
- Supervise and develop staff at all levels with demonstrated ability to work with others through challenges and career development while providing ongoing training and feedback.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or economics; MBA, CFA, or CPA is a plus
- 10+ years of related financial experience is required, which may include public accounting.
- Significant private equity, secondaries, private credit, alternatives, or other private funds accounting/operations experience.
- Demonstrated experience with complex partnership waterfalls, carried interest or performance allocations, and investor capital accounting.
- Strong understanding of investment and capital allocation methodologies, NAV calculations, liquidity management, and private fund structures.
- Experience with NAV facilities, subscription facilities, or other fund-level financing arrangements strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting evergreen, open-ended, interval, perpetual-capital, or similar structures is highly desirable.
- Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills; experience with private-markets accounting and reporting platforms is preferred.
- Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to independently manage complex, high-volume processes with multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
- Experience working with third party administrators is a plus.
General Requirements:
- Strong management skills, including proven experience of managing and/or collaborating with teams in remote locations to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and high level of supervisory oversight.
- Proven team player with stakeholder management skills.
- Strong relationship building skills with internal and external business clients, including third party administrators.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- High accuracy and detail orientation.
- Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deliverables.
- Ability to work independently within a fast-paced environment with a hands-on approach.
- Dependable, great attitude, highly motivated and a team player.
- Working understanding of evergreen vehicles with complex structures and allocations.
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office, eFront Software and reporting skills a plus.
Reporting Relationships
Principal, Fund Accounting & Portfolio AnalyticsCompensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
$180,000 - $220,000
The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.
Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
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Who's Hiring
- Standish Management17
- Jobot6
- CBRE5
- MUFG2
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services12
- Staffing & Recruiting7
- Construction & Real Estate2
- Investment & Asset Management2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in fund controller jobs.
- CPA license or active candidacy with a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- Five or more years of fund accounting experience in private equity, hedge funds, or real estate
- Proficiency in fund administration software such as Investran, Geneva, or Yardi
- Deep knowledge of NAV calculations, waterfall distributions, and investor capital account reporting
- Experience preparing and reviewing financial statements under U.S. GAAP or IFRS for investment funds
- Strong working knowledge of partnership tax concepts including K-1 preparation and Schedule of Investments
Tips for Your Fund Controller Job Search
Tailor your resume to fund structures
Highlight the specific fund types you've worked with, whether closed-end private equity, open-end hedge, or real estate vehicles. Hiring managers scan for fund structure familiarity immediately, so name the structures directly rather than describing duties generically.
Certify your accounting credentials early
A CPA license shifts you from screened-out to shortlisted at most fund administrators and GPs. If you're mid-process toward licensure, state the expected completion date explicitly on your resume so reviewers don't assume you're uncertified.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists fund controller openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match your fund type experience and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by fund lifecycle stage
Controllers at a fund in deployment need different skills than those at a fund winding down. Read the job description for cues like capital calls, distributions, or liquidation reporting, then match your cover letter language to whichever stage the firm is in.
Prepare technical walkthroughs for interviews
Expect interviewers to ask you to walk through a full NAV calculation or a waterfall distribution from scratch. Practice narrating each step aloud, including where data inputs come from and how errors surface, not just the end result.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base
Fund controllers at GPs frequently receive carried interest or co-investment rights alongside salary. Before your final round, research what allocation and vesting schedules look like for the fund size you're joining so you can discuss those terms specifically.
Fund Controller Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most fund controllers?
The companies hiring the most fund controllers right now include Standish Management, Jobot, and CBRE, with the largest share of openings in New York, Texas, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated at private equity GPs, fund administrators, and large real estate investment managers.
How many fund controller jobs are remote?
About 52% of fund controller openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote arrangements most common in fund administration firms where investor reporting and NAV calculations can be completed independently. Roles that involve direct LP relationship management or audit coordination with on-site teams tend to require more in-office presence.
How do you become a fund controller?
Start with a degree in accounting or finance and pursue your CPA license as early as possible. Gain several years in public accounting or fund administration, focusing on partnership accounting and financial statement preparation for investment vehicles. Move into an assistant or senior fund accountant role at a GP or administrator, build experience across multiple fund structures, then step into a controller position as your oversight and reporting responsibilities grow.
How do you get hired as a fund controller with little experience?
Start in a fund accounting or senior accountant role at a fund administrator, where you'll handle NAV calculations and investor allocations directly. Firms that outsource fund administration often hire at the junior level and promote from within. Demonstrate familiarity with at least one fund accounting platform, even through coursework or a trial version, and emphasize any exposure to partnership tax concepts or audit support in your application materials.
What does the fund controller interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. An initial call with HR or a recruiter covers your background and fund type experience. A technical interview with the CFO or a senior controller tests your NAV calculation logic, waterfall mechanics, and financial statement review process. A final round often includes a case study or modeling exercise using anonymized fund data, followed by a culture and fit conversation with the broader finance team.
Where can I find and apply to fund controller jobs?
You can find and apply to fund controller jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the listings by location or fund type, find the roles that match your experience, and apply directly to each one that fits.
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