At Forge (NYSE: FRGE), we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, humble and accountable. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to planet-saving, plant-based nutrition and more.
Our mission is to empower more people to exercise ownership in the world’s leading private companies via a world-class technology platform with access to the largest network of buyers and sellers in the world. With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible and seamless for companies, their employees and investors.
Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and it is building a growing network effect with defensible competitive advantages. The Forge marketplace has over 440,000 registered users and private shares have traded in more than 500 companies since inception, representing over $12 billion in volume across over 21,000+ transactions.Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.
The Role:
A critical role on the Operations Team at Forge, the Team Lead, Fund Administration, primary function would be to work on quarterly and year-end reporting requirements related to Forge’s special purpose vehicles (“SPV”). On a quarterly and annual basis, the Team Lead, Fund Administration would be responsible for valuing various issuers using Forge’s approved valuation methodology. Additionally, the Team Lead, Fund Administration would be responsible for the monthly close process of the SPV trade data to the accounting software, SS&C Advent Geneva, and would be heavily involved in the year-end external financial statement audits.Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: a.) assisting with K1 preparation; b.) assisting with fund exits by preparing DTC transfer instructions; c.) maintaining the client inbox/ client service; and d.) working with the Principal of Forge Global Advisors LLC on various requests.Success in this role would require a self-starter mentality, being adaptable to an evolving workplace, eager and willing to educate, and determined to add value through high-quality work and thoughtful insights.
This will be a hybrid role where you'll be onsite 1-2 days a week.
Responsibilities:
- Quarterly valuations:
- Gather data sets from Forge’s internal platform, EDGAR, and Pitchbook to value an issuer.
- Manage the quarterly reporting requirements relates to Forge’s SPVs.
- Year-end SPV audits:
- Prepare financial statements and footnotes for Forge’s SPVs.
- Manage the audit confirmations sent to and received from clients.
- Respond to auditor requests.
- Other:
- Key contributor in the monthly close process for any SPV trades.
- Collect and collate investor brokerage account information for any liquidity events in the SPVs.
- Assist in responding to client service requests through group mailboxes.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the company for data requests and/ or process improvements.
- Help provide data and field questions to our third party K1 preparer.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 6 years of professional experience in operations, audit, accounting, or fund administration.
- Superior critical thinking skills and demonstrated success working in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment.
- Excellent attention to detail, project management finesse, and verbal/written communication skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of business process development and improvement.
- Comfort performing in fast, high-pressure situations with little supervision.
- Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time in an office or home office setting while working.
- This will be a hybrid role where you'll be onsite 1-2 days a week.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with SS&C Advent Geneva software preferred.
- Management experience of staff is a plus.
- CPA
For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary range for this role is $110,000 - $115,000 +annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, annual bonus, and other factors.
Forge implements a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which applies to all employees. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Forge. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. Employees must provide truthful and accurate information about their COVID-19 vaccination status, and, if applicable, their testing results as of the first date of their employment.
Employees may request an exception from this mandatory vaccination policy if the vaccine is medically contraindicated for them or medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. Employees also may be legally entitled to a reasonable accommodation if they cannot be vaccinated because of a disability, or if the provisions in this policy for vaccination conflict with a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. All such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
