Senior Staff Accountant

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, too, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
As a Staff Accountant, you will be a key member of the management company finance team. This team has a broad mandate and is responsible for managing the books, records, and budgets of both US and International businesses, and managing tax filings with external service providers. You will report to our Finance Director and be a vital contributor to the success of the finance team, work with our senior executives and partners to support critical accounting and budgeting processes, and growth initiatives across the firm. 

Responsibilities

• Lead areas of general financial operations, including budgeting, research and development tax credit studies, and partnership accounting
• Maintain and reconcile partnership capital accounts and capital expenditure trackers across various entities
• Perform valuations and analyses to drive business decisions including modeling multi-year month forecasts and budgets for various functional groups
• Assist group heads within finance in developing growth and financial metrics (and OKRs) for each functional group
• Collaborate with our legal team on research and implementation for entity structuring, both domestic and international
• Support cross-functional initiatives including HR, Facilities, and Fund Finance
• Oversee and manage accounting for LCI, a C-Corporation entity, including various state-by-state and local requirements
• Lead bespoke projects to improve our management company finances and our finance effort overall
• Assist with annual audit and tax preparation processes for both partnership and C-Corp entities

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of experience in public or financial accounting
• Understanding of US GAAP and financial accounting and its application to partnerships and/or investment management
• Excellent MS excel skills
• Experience working with enterprise-level accounting software; some possible examples include QuickBooks, Oracle EBS, Sage Intacct, and SAP
• Understanding of partnership accounting preferred
• Active CPA
• Master's degree in Accounting or Finance (or equivalent experience) preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to international businesses including accounting and tax

The base salary range for this position is $105,000 - $130,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral ProgramIf you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program. Equal Opportunity EmployerThe Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law. Vaccination RequirementThe Voleon Group has implemented a policy requiring all employees who will be entering our worksite, including new hires, to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine.  This policy also applies to remot