The Company You’ll Join
Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions.
Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally. For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.
The Problems You’ll Solve
At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow. As an Implementations Accountant, you will focus efforts on supporting new Fund Administration customers in their journey into Carta services. You work within our fast-growing Fund Administration business by coordinating, facilitating and managing onboarding activities that are critical to achieving success for both our customers and Carta within a tight deadline.
You will:
- Liaise between Sales and Fund Accounting teams as the bridge post-sales for new fund clients
- Interact with a fund’s back office (CFO, fund manager) to collect their historical accounting data, provide advisory support, and ultimately deliver accurate financial statements to both the client and internal stakeholders
- Book and reconcile all accounting books and records from, at times, unstructured client data. This includes reproducing Capital Calls, Distributions, Expenses, Investments, Management Fees, Financial Statements, and Partners’ Capital to match client sources.
- Resolving escalations related to data migration, historical accounting discrepancies, and client onboarding issues
- Manage all aspects of customer onboarding for medium to high complexity new clients by managing timelines, setting clear customer expectations, and completing all compliance procedures pre go-live
- Build strong client relationships and provide a white glove experience by going on-site, anticipating client needs, and using Carta app capabilities effectively
- Identify process and quality improvements, assist with internal reviews, Quality Assurance, and train junior team members
- Sharing accounting and onboarding specificities with upstream teams for efficient post go-live fund administration
The Team You'll Work With
Our implementation accounting team acts as the bridge between sales and long term account management for new fund clients. The team ensures whatever information our clients had before joining Carta is correctly migrated into our system. Ours is a team of folks who have mastery of accounting, exhibit a high degree of problem-solving, efficiency, and integrity as they leverage their subject-matter expertise to provide customers with a world-class onboarding experience.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in an accounting role where you executed all aspects of end of quarter and year closes, preferably working within the Venture Capital Fund Administration environment
- Strong accounting analysis skills with the ability to interpret a story through multiple years of unstructured data, and reproduce Financial Statements correctly
- Ability to build strong client relationships through transparent and forthright communication. Able to manage multiple clients while hitting deadlines and providing white-glove service
- Passionate about growing and advancing with Carta
- Proven internal influencer having implemented and successfully managed both small and large projects or initiatives with sustained, measurable success
- Incredible organizational skills, high attention to detail, and an ability to complete competing priorities quickly and autonomously
Salary
Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:
- $102,000 - $120,000 in San Francisco, CA, Santa Clara, CA, and New York, NY
- $96,900 - $114,000 in Seattle, WA
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.
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Awards and Acknowledgements
Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on Privacy and CA Candidate Privacy.
