As a FAIR Associate within the FAIR team, you will be part of a high impact team focused on delivering exceptional analytical reports. This team’s work focuses on analyzing and recalculating fees and expenses relating to private equity and other alternative investments and providing insight to our LP clients regarding the expense structures of their investments. You will be responsible for providing post investment due diligence services through examining financial data that provides our clients insight into their management fee, expense, and carried interest structures.
If you are an experienced fund accountant, auditor, or financial due diligence professional who appreciates the nuances of private equity agreements, complex legal agreements, and financial structures – FAIR is the place for you. As a FAIR Associate, you will have the ability to add value across multiple clients within the FAIR team, enabling you to gain a deep perspective and awareness of the wider industry. You will be in charge of leading client engagements, reviewing FAIR reports, and conducting financial analysis. You will gain a rich knowledge of the alternative investment market as you create and review reports over the fees charged to our clients in multiple different alternative investments and lead conversations with our clients over their fee structures.
What you’ll be doing:
Review and Analysis
- Create and review detailed reports over management fees, partnership expenses, and carried interest for a variety of alternative investments, including private equity, real estate, private debt, and hedge funds
- Ensure consistent methodologies around data extraction, fee recalculation, and report creation is applied to all reports
Client Management
- Act as the main point of contact for clients in the North America region through responding to client email inquiries, conducting regular status calls, leading presentations, and coordinating report deliveries
- Breakdown and explain complex fund terms, especially those relating to carried interest and management fees
- Create detailed presentation materials and present FAIR findings to clients on a quarterly basis
What you’ll bring to us
- Minimum 4 years of experience in fund accounting, investment management, external audit, or another private equity-adjacent role from a reputed organization
- Excellent understanding of financial statements including notes to financial statements, capital account statements, cash flow notices, ILPA templates, and other information regularly published by General Partners
- General understanding of limited partnership agreements, private equity fund structures, and associated fees
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills required including the ability to work with complex functionalities (Formulas, pivot tables, ability to run existing macros)
- CPA, CFA, CAIA or other accounting/ finance certification(s) preferred
- 2+ years of experience in client management/ service as a financial consultant, auditor, investment advisor, or other financial service field
Why join us?
About Us
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
Our Culture
We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.
Equal opportunities
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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