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Fund Controller roles at U.S. investment firms qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship when employers file PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor. The process moves from prevailing wage determination through I-140 petition to adjustment of status or consular processing, resulting in lawful permanent residency rather than a renewable work status.
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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 grow.
- 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 Analytics
COMPENSATION
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.
INTRODUCTION
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 grow.
- 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 Analytics
COMPENSATION
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Fund Controller
Match your credentials to EB-2 standards
EB-2 requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in fund accounting or financial reporting. Gather transcripts, employer letters, and promotion records before targeting roles, so your profile aligns with what PERM labor certification demands.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring employers
Target fund administrators, private equity firms, and registered investment advisers with documented green card sponsorship history. Migrate Mate lists employers by role and location using verified filing data, so you can focus outreach on firms already familiar with the PERM and I-140 process.
Verify your prevailing wage category early
Your employer's PERM filing must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up current wage levels for fund controller roles before accepting an offer, since the wage tier affects PERM approval.
Ask about priority dates before signing
Nationals of India and China can face significant backlogs before an EB-2 or EB-3 priority date becomes current. Confirm whether the employer has filed previous I-140 petitions on your behalf, since an approved I-140 can allow you to retain that priority date with a new sponsor.
Distinguish PERM recruitment from general hiring
Your employer must run a DOL-mandated recruitment test before filing PERM, which includes specific job postings and documentation that no qualified U.S. worker was available. This is separate from the firm's normal hiring process, so align your start date with the recruitment window the employer controls.
Prepare for AC21 portability before you need it
Once your I-485 has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or similar occupation without losing your place in the queue. Document your Fund Controller duties thoroughly so any future same-occupation move is straightforward to establish.
Green Card Fund Controller: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Fund Controller roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Fund Controller positions typically qualify for both categories. EB-2 applies when the role requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in fund accounting or financial reporting. EB-3 covers professionals with a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance and skilled workers with at least two years of relevant experience. The employer's PERM filing specifies which category applies.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for a Fund Controller?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status requiring periodic renewal, while green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 results in lawful permanent residency. The employer must complete PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor, including a prevailing wage determination and a formal recruitment test, before filing the I-140 petition with USCIS. There is no lottery, but per-country limits create priority date backlogs for some nationalities.
How long does the PERM and I-140 process take for a Fund Controller role?
PERM labor certification processing times at the Department of Labor vary and are not guaranteed. After PERM approval, the employer files the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Standard and premium processing timelines apply at that stage. Nationals of India and China may then wait for a priority date to become current before filing for adjustment of status or consular processing. USCIS publishes monthly Visa Bulletins with updated priority date information.
Where can I find Fund Controller jobs with green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history, searchable by role and location. This lets you identify fund administrators, private equity firms, and asset managers that have already navigated the PERM and I-140 process, rather than approaching firms that have no prior sponsorship experience and may be unfamiliar with the requirements.
Can I change employers after my green card process has started?
AC21 job portability allows you to move to a new employer in the same or similar occupation once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more. Separately, if your original employer's I-140 was approved, you can ask a new sponsoring employer to retain that priority date when filing a new I-140, potentially preserving your place in the priority date queue.