The Role
The global real estate private equity firm is hiring a Senior Accountant, Fund Finance based on-site in Singapore. The role supports the financial management, reporting, operations, compliance, budgeting, and forecasting of multiple private equity funds. It also provides support to senior management, investment professionals, and transaction teams on fund raising, investor relations, fund set-ups, deal structuring, acquisitions, and dispositions.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Support the management and review of day-to-day accounting and financial operations, monthly, quarterly, and yearly closing and consolidations, and preparation of all required financial reports for multiple private equity funds and their underlying entities, including investment holding and property holding entities.
- Support the management and review of calculations for management fees, performance fees, and carried interests.
- Review vendor invoices and vendor payments.
- Prepare net asset value statements, capital account statements, financial statements, management reports, and investor reports, ensuring timely and accurate delivery.
- Support statutory and other required audits with internal and external auditors.
Capital and Treasury Management
- Support the management and review of capital calls, distributions, and investor allocations.
- Prepare fund cash flows, liquidity forecasts, and financing arrangements to ensure liquidity needs are met.
- Support the management and review of fund transfers.
- Support the management and review of equity tracking, including capital commitments, contributions, distributions, carried interest accruals, and ownership changes.
- Support bank account opening, closing, and management.
Process Improvements
- Map key finance processes, including close, reporting, and invoice and payment workflows, to identify bottlenecks, rework, and control gaps.
- Standardise SOPs and templates and implement clear responsibilities and ownership to reduce handoffs and ambiguity.
- Improve data quality and governance by defining a single source of truth, strengthening reconciliation cadence, and implementing exception-based reviews.
- Drive automation and enablement improvements such as standardised checklists, workflow routing, and dashboarding to reduce manual effort.
- Track and report improvement outcomes including cycle time reduction, fewer audit findings, and fewer post-close adjustments.
System Implementation
- Support the migration of finance processes from SAP to Yardi, including requirements gathering, user testing, data validation, and go-live readiness.
- Assist with the onboarding and transition to a new accounting service BPO, including documentation of roles, responsibilities, and service workflows.
- Coordinate with internal teams, IT, system vendors, and the BPO to ensure smooth implementation, clear handoffs, and issue resolution.
- Support UAT, parallel runs, and post-go-live stabilisation, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to agreed processes.
- Contribute to process standardisation and continuous improvement following system and BPO changes.
Investor Relations Support
- Work with the fund management or investor relations team to respond to investor requests and due diligence questionnaires on financial matters.
- Liaise and coordinate with legal, compliance, company secretary, tax, and external advisors as needed.
Business Partnering
- Support financial and tax due diligence.
- Review financial and tax due diligence reports and prepare or review completion accounts for deals.
- Work with tax, company secretary, and investment management to determine the capitalisation structure of each entity.
- Support ad hoc requests, transactions, and workstreams.
Skills & Experience
- Qualified accountant with a CA, CPA, or ACCA designation.
- Minimum four years of experience in private equity fund accounting, logistics real estate, data centres, or infrastructure, including experience at one of the Big Four audit firms.
- Strong understanding of IFRS, SFRS(I), financial regulations, and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
- Experience working with third-party fund administrators and fund accountants.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to liaise across multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to lead and mentor a team.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel.
About MENA Careers
MENA Careers is a private equity career platform built for candidates who want better access to recruiters, live opportunities, and market insight. It helps members discover relevant private equity roles, find specialist recruiters, and navigate the search with sharper direction across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha, London, and Singapore. MENA Careers is designed to make the private equity search more focused, more informed, and more effective. For more information, visit joinsenna.com.
