Senior Corporate Counsel, Fund Administration Compliance

The Company You’ll Join

Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit. 

Carta’s fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, representing  $150B in assets under administration in venture capital and private equity. Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.

Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Traditional ERP solutions don’t work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - it’s a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital. 

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 a Senior Corporate Counsel- Fund Administration Compliance, you’ll work to: 

• Build the compliance controls and team  to support Carta’s US Fund Administration business
• Partner with the Go-To-Market, Delivery, Legal and Compliance, Treasury, Product, and Engineering teams to design, implement and test policies and procedures for:
• Fund accounting, functional, and treasury team operations
• Licensing/training for applicable team members (e.g. CPA)
• Payment technology/operation and money movement (including ACH  and wire payments)
• Tax preparation and tax advisory services
• Security incident investigation and response
• Support new product and operations compliance, including participating in Fund Admin business and R&D meetings to stay abreast of upcoming initiatives and initiate development of controls, as necessary
• Partner with the  Anti-Money Laundering Compliance team to ensure coordinated and aligned responses to requests and inquiries
• Leading and directing responses to customer and regulatory  inquiries
• Develop and conduct applicable compliance  trainings
• Develop risk assessments in conjunction with Carta’s  Risk team
• Supervise and direct an annual business audit of Fund Administration business
• Evaluate client behaviors and fund activity patterns to identify potential risks such as fraud, suspicious transactions, or regulatory non-compliance. 

The Team You'll Work With

You’ll be joining Carta’s Global Legal and Compliance  team and you will work closely with the US Fund Administration business and R&D teams. We are committed to working collaboratively, transparently and efficiently.  We are committed to excellence in our work, a growth mindset and continuous improvement and developing a deep understanding of our products and services as well as the broader business context in which our clients operate so that we can deliver innovative and creative solutions.  We require a strong bias to action for driving results while protecting Carta’s core values and interests. Above all, we are looking for a team member who will partner with other groups to help them navigate through challenging issues, and bring a business-oriented, pragmatic mindset to solving legal and compliance challenges in a fast-scaling company.

About You

In this role you bring the following qualities: 

• Ability to identify areas in need of improvement, roll up your sleeves and partner to design, document, implement and test these improvements
• You’ll be working to simplify solutions and communicate them with your partners
• A change agent. You’ll interact with the business and operations teams in order to master your craft and improve the fund accounting landscape
• Curiosity. Dive in and ask questions, understand the context of the business, explain the why where needed, develop solutions in harmony with Carta’s business
• Tech-focused. We’re at the forefront of accounting and technology, where you’ll work directly with  product teams
• Attorney licensed in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, with 7+ years of legal and/or compliance experience supporting complex businesses and product development  required
• Prior in-house experience in a legal and/or compliance role preferred
• Experience evaluating business activity for red flags, suspicious behavior, or control gaps in fund administ