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Brand Partnerships Manager roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Management Consultant or Marketing category, depending on how the employer defines the position. Canadian citizens can enter without a lottery or cap. Mexican citizens need a TN visa stamp. A bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or a related field is required.
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At Kirkland & Ellis, we don’t just meet the standard for legal excellence — we set it. Our culture is built on teamwork, ingenuity and an unwavering commitment to continuous growth. We tackle the most sophisticated legal challenges with bold ideas and innovative solutions, powered by the exceptional experience and ambition of our 7,000+ people, including 4,000+ attorneys, across 24 offices worldwide. Our dedicated professionals share our lawyers’ commitment to excellence and show up each day to do meaningful work that helps drive global business, investment and innovation forward.
What You’ll Do
Are you a detail-driven accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working at the intersection of finance and private equity? As an Investment Partnerships Senior Accountant, you’ll play a key role supporting the Firm’s Financial Accounting and Investment Partnerships teams. You’ll help ensure accuracy across accounting, reconciliations, and reporting for private equity investments while contributing to process improvements and system enhancements. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on financial integrity while growing your expertise in investment partnerships and performance analytics.
- Reconciliation Oversight: Prepare and review monthly bank account reconciliations for firm and investment partnership activity, ensuring accuracy and resolving discrepancies quickly.
- Transaction Analysis: Review and analyze capital calls, distributions, and other fund transactions to ensure proper accounting treatment and timely recording.
- Journal Entry Support: Prepare supporting documentation for manual journal entries and collaborate with the Investment Partnerships team to ensure accurate posting.
- Financial Reporting Support: Contribute to the preparation of financial analyses (for investments allocated across multiple funds), schedules, and data used for annual financial statements.
- Audit Coordination: Support annual external audits by preparing schedules, responding to auditor requests, and ensuring timely completion of engagements.
- System & Process Improvements: Identify opportunities to streamline reconciliation and reporting processes, leveraging automation and emerging tools, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve efficiency and accuracy – and actively contribute to implementing those changes, with an eye toward downstream impacts across the team and broader finance function.
- Platform Enhancement: Assist with testing, implementation, and enhancement of the Dynamo investment tracking platform and its financial modules.
- Team Development: Mentor and support Staff Accountants by reviewing work and contributing to training and knowledge sharing.
- Project Contributions: Participate in finance-related projects and perform ad hoc analysis to support evolving business needs.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting or finance required, CPA certification is preferred; with 3+ years of accounting, finance, and/or audit experience, with experience in funds accounting in a fast-paced, demanding environment and a general understanding of the private equity industry.
- Fund Accounting: Experience in accounting for various types of entities including private equity funds and funds of funds.
- Analytical Strength: Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and deliver clear insights.
- Communication & Collaboration: Effective written and verbal communication skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach and strong interpersonal abilities.
- Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering quality work in a dynamic environment.
- Ownership Mindset: Ability to work independently, take initiative, and confidently drive tasks to completion.
- Continuous Improvement: Eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to process improvements and innovation within the team.
- Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills and the ability to manage large datasets; familiarity with Elite 3E and Dynamo is a plus.
If you’re excited to combine financial expertise with process innovation and make a meaningful impact as an Investment Partnerships Senior Accountant, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation
The base salary range below represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position in Chicago. This range may differ based on your geographic location and cost of living considerations. At Kirkland & Ellis, we consider compensation more than just a base salary. We offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits including comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and retirement. We also offer personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.
Compensation Range:
Chicago: $100,000 - $125,000
How to Apply
Thank you for your interest in Kirkland & Ellis LLP. To complete an application and submit your resume, please click "Apply Now."
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others at Kirkland.
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All employment decisions, including the recruiting, hiring, placement, training availability, promotion, compensation, evaluation, disciplinary actions, and termination of employment (if necessary) are made without regard to the employee’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, personal appearance, family responsibilities, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, political affiliation, source of income, place of residence, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, physical or mental disability, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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About Kirkland & Ellis
At Kirkland & Ellis, we don’t just meet the standard for legal excellence — we set it. Our culture is built on teamwork, ingenuity and an unwavering commitment to continuous growth. We tackle the most sophisticated legal challenges with bold ideas and innovative solutions, powered by the exceptional experience and ambition of our 7,000+ people, including 4,000+ attorneys, across 24 offices worldwide. Our dedicated professionals share our lawyers’ commitment to excellence and show up each day to do meaningful work that helps drive global business, investment and innovation forward.
What You’ll Do
Are you a detail-driven accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working at the intersection of finance and private equity? As an Investment Partnerships Senior Accountant, you’ll play a key role supporting the Firm’s Financial Accounting and Investment Partnerships teams. You’ll help ensure accuracy across accounting, reconciliations, and reporting for private equity investments while contributing to process improvements and system enhancements. This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on financial integrity while growing your expertise in investment partnerships and performance analytics.
- Reconciliation Oversight: Prepare and review monthly bank account reconciliations for firm and investment partnership activity, ensuring accuracy and resolving discrepancies quickly.
- Transaction Analysis: Review and analyze capital calls, distributions, and other fund transactions to ensure proper accounting treatment and timely recording.
- Journal Entry Support: Prepare supporting documentation for manual journal entries and collaborate with the Investment Partnerships team to ensure accurate posting.
- Financial Reporting Support: Contribute to the preparation of financial analyses (for investments allocated across multiple funds), schedules, and data used for annual financial statements.
- Audit Coordination: Support annual external audits by preparing schedules, responding to auditor requests, and ensuring timely completion of engagements.
- System & Process Improvements: Identify opportunities to streamline reconciliation and reporting processes, leveraging automation and emerging tools, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve efficiency and accuracy – and actively contribute to implementing those changes, with an eye toward downstream impacts across the team and broader finance function.
- Platform Enhancement: Assist with testing, implementation, and enhancement of the Dynamo investment tracking platform and its financial modules.
- Team Development: Mentor and support Staff Accountants by reviewing work and contributing to training and knowledge sharing.
- Project Contributions: Participate in finance-related projects and perform ad hoc analysis to support evolving business needs.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting or finance required, CPA certification is preferred; with 3+ years of accounting, finance, and/or audit experience, with experience in funds accounting in a fast-paced, demanding environment and a general understanding of the private equity industry.
- Fund Accounting: Experience in accounting for various types of entities including private equity funds and funds of funds.
- Analytical Strength: Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data and deliver clear insights.
- Communication & Collaboration: Effective written and verbal communication skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach and strong interpersonal abilities.
- Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering quality work in a dynamic environment.
- Ownership Mindset: Ability to work independently, take initiative, and confidently drive tasks to completion.
- Continuous Improvement: Eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to process improvements and innovation within the team.
- Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills and the ability to manage large datasets; familiarity with Elite 3E and Dynamo is a plus.
If you’re excited to combine financial expertise with process innovation and make a meaningful impact as an Investment Partnerships Senior Accountant, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation
The base salary range below represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position in Chicago. This range may differ based on your geographic location and cost of living considerations. At Kirkland & Ellis, we consider compensation more than just a base salary. We offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits including comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, and retirement. We also offer personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.
Compensation Range:
Chicago: $100,000 - $125,000
How to Apply
Thank you for your interest in Kirkland & Ellis LLP. To complete an application and submit your resume, please click "Apply Now."
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others at Kirkland.
Equal Employment Opportunity
All employment decisions, including the recruiting, hiring, placement, training availability, promotion, compensation, evaluation, disciplinary actions, and termination of employment (if necessary) are made without regard to the employee’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, personal appearance, family responsibilities, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, political affiliation, source of income, place of residence, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, physical or mental disability, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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Translate your credentials for U.S. employers
Canadian and Mexican degrees are accepted for TN visa eligibility, but your transcript must clearly show a bachelor's in marketing, business, or communications. Unofficial transcripts slow offers down. Request a certified copy before you start applying.
Target employers experienced with visa sponsorship
Brand Partnerships Manager roles sit in a gray zone between Marketing and Management Consultant TN categories. Employers experienced with visa sponsorship are less likely to stall on the classification question during the offer stage.
Use Migrate Mate to find TN-ready opportunities
Search Migrate Mate to identify Brand Partnerships Manager openings at companies with recent visa filings and experience with sponsorship processes. Filtering by employer sponsorship experience saves time compared to cold outreach to employers unfamiliar with work visa requirements.
Clarify the TN category before signing the offer
Ask your employer which TN category they plan to file under before accepting. Misclassifying a Brand Partnerships role under the wrong category is a common reason CBP denies entry at the port. Get this confirmed in writing.
Prepare a role-specific TN support letter
The employer's support letter must connect your specific duties to a qualifying TN occupation. Generic letters that describe broad partnership or sales work without linking to the management or marketing professional standards get flagged by CBP officers.
Understand the Mexican TN visa stamp process
Mexican citizens apply at a U.S. consulate and receive a visa stamp before traveling, unlike Canadians who present documents at the border. Schedule your consulate appointment early since Brand Partnerships roles in marketing hubs often see slower slots.
Brand Partnerships Manager TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Brand Partnerships Manager role qualify for a TN visa?
It depends on how the role is scoped. Brand Partnerships Manager positions can qualify under the TN Management Consultant or Marketing categories, but only if your duties align with those professional definitions. Roles that are primarily sales-focused without a marketing or consulting component are harder to classify under TN and risk CBP denial at entry.
How does the TN visa compare to H-1B for Brand Partnerships Manager roles?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so you can start working as soon as CBP approves your application at the border or port of entry. H-1B visa requires entering a lottery with roughly a one-in-three selection rate. TN is renewable indefinitely in three-year increments, but it does not lead directly to a green card the way H-1B cap-subject status can.
Where can I find Brand Partnerships Manager jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Canadian and Mexican professionals looking for roles with confirmed TN sponsorship. You can filter by job title and visa type, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to employers who have never filed a TN petition and don't know how to start the process for a Brand Partnerships role.
Can a Canadian citizen apply for a Brand Partnerships Manager TN visa at the border?
Yes. Canadian citizens can present their TN application documents at a U.S. port of entry or preclearance location and receive approval on the spot if CBP is satisfied with the classification and credentials. You'll need your employer's support letter, your degree, and proof the role qualifies under a recognized TN category. Mexican citizens must go through a consulate first.
What happens if my Brand Partnerships Manager TN visa is denied at the border?
CBP can deny entry if they find the role doesn't clearly fit a TN occupation category, your support letter is vague, or your degree doesn't match the claimed position. You're generally allowed to withdraw the application and re-enter as a visitor, then refile with corrected documentation. Work with your employer to tighten the support letter and category justification before trying again.