Associate Fund Controller

Location: Minneapolis, MN

While our primary location is in Latham NY, we will consider candidates outside of the Latham NY area for remote positions in the following states: CT, MI, NC, PA, TX

Job Type: Full-time

GPFS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Associate Fund Controller to join a dynamic team. In this role you will lead a team of accountants in the processing and review of reconciling cash, securities and other financial transactions to ensure accurate accounting records for the assigned entities as well as prepare reports in accordance with various accounting rules, Partnership Agreements or client specific requirements.


Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Provide client service on a range of matters including recording and analyzing transactions, reconciliations, and preparation of work paper packages
  • Assistance in the coordination of external audits
  • Preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements
  • Create and review partner capital calls, monthly and quarterly partner capital statements including calculation of partner allocations
  • Calculate and review waterfall models, distribution notices, and management fees
  • Onboarding new clients
  • Build and maintain relationships with one or more clients, managing client expectations, and meeting all client deliverables
  • Provide training and mentoring to the Accountants and Senior Accountants
  • Review Accountants and Senior Accountants work

Fund Controller

While our primary location is in Latham NY, we will consider candidates outside of the Latham NY area for remote positions in the following states: CT, MI, NC, PA, TX

Job Type: Full-time

This role will oversee accounting for the firm’s private equity clients as well as managing transactional accounting issues including dispositions, sales and other investment actions. This role will oversee a team and will report to a Director and\or CEO.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Responsible for accurate and timely financial reporting deliverables across multiple clients
  • Reviewing client financial statements, partner capital statements and other required financial reporting
  • Providing technical accounting/industry knowledge to our clients
  • Coordinating, managing and monitoring the external audit process and year tax reporting process with 3rd party accounting firm
  • Create and review partner capital calls,
  • Calculate and review waterfall models, distribution notices, and management fees
  • Onboarding new clients
  • Participate & lead client planning meetings
  • Provide training and mentor team members by setting objectives and providing performance feedback. Manage team’s adherence to internal control policies and procedures
  • Build and maintain relationships with one or more clients, managing client expectations, and meeting all client deliverables
  • Assist in business development, participate in meetings with potential clients
  • Review partnership agreements in order to determine impact on financial reporting and partner capital accounting requirements.
  • Lead and complete adhoc projects
  • Foster and protect the GPFS culture.

Payroll Specialist

Will handle payroll and vendor payments. 
?    Weekly  – record credit card payments and ensure we have receipts for anything that is older than 7 days – this varies month to month on how much there is to process between 5-8 hours per week
?    Bi-weekly – process payroll – include salary and hourly
•    Approximately 45 people – split by 20 hourly, 25 salary
•    For salary just make sure Autopay is checked pre-processing and import in PTO
•    For hourly, review time cards and PTO, process time cards and PTO, enter manual data for specific elements
•    After all entry and import, regular payroll items – run reports, review, submit, run reports (canned from Paylocity), review final check register for employees
•    This process roughly takes about 16 – 20
hours each payroll
?    Monthly – process payroll – all commission only and bonuses
•    Approximately 19 people on payroll
•    Run processes to create manual time sheets for designers, review output
•    Once the designers and the manager have signed off on the time sheet
•    Review each sheet for formula errors, conflicting information, unanswered designer questions referred back to me
•    Once they are reviewed, each sheet needs saved in our files
•    This process requires a great deal of attention
•    After the sheets are processed it follows the same duties starting with reports in bullet point 4 of the bi-weekly process
•    This process roughly take about 16 – 20 hours per month
?    Other duties as needed:
•    Set up of new employees for payroll (HR handles initial onboarding) including ensuring tax entities are correct based on location, adding deductions once a new employee selects and/or qualifies for the benefits
•    Answer employee questions and work with HR to ensure setup is correct

Desired qualifications:
o    Attention to detail, flexibility, ability to work mostly unsupervised, ability to know when to ask questions instead of just plowing forward, prior experience with payroll – experience with Paylocity is required.
o    The person needs to be personable, have an open mind, motivated by performance, and want to belong to a team

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

Director, Credit

Job Description

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, Finance, or equivalent and 10+ years’ relevant experience or Master’s degree and 5+ years’ relevant experience.
  • Excellent analytical skills and knowledge of LIHTC equity underwriting and other real estate feasibility analyses.
  • Capacity to communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms.
  • Ability to maintain positive, productive working relationships with both internal and external partners.
  • Proven facility with coordinating complex activities, prioritizing conflicting demands, and meeting deadlines.
  • Must be highly motivated, be able to work independently, and be available to work evening and weekend hours during peak periods.
  • Willingness to travel as needed.
  • Incumbent is expected to demonstrate a high level of ethics.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Review, evaluate and respond to Preliminary Investment Reviews (PIRs), Market Analysis (MAs), Investment Analysis (IAs) and Closing Memos along with all other supporting documentation for proposed investments.
  • Act as a resource throughout the acquisition, underwriting and closing process to evaluate risk factors.
  • Respond as a subject matter expert to investor needs and third-party legal review as required for fund closing and/or deal placement.
  • Contribute to the business’s position on evolving risk issues and industry responses.
  • Perform sponsor capacity evaluations for new and high-volume partners as well as other development team members.
  • Interact with investors and development teams’ members as needed.
  • Participate in site visits as needed.
  • Support the interaction among Underwriting, Asset Management and Development Risk Management during the underwriting process.
  • Share in the responsibility for Credit’s other general duties, including but not limited to:
  • Manage external resources such as REIS and ESRI accounts and third-party market analysts.
  • Maintain and update policies and procedures.
  • Support the sponsor financial review process during peak periods.
  • Contribute to ongoing business process improvement efforts and document maintenance for the IA and MA forms.
  • Provide training and support to new Underwriters and Analysts.
  • Consult to Syndication Associates on risk issues related to due diligence.

Commercial Account Executive

  • Prospect and develop new business opportunities with existing customers and prospective customers. As part of our Product Lead Growth (PLG) motion it is critical for you to be successful conducting research, identifying key players, qualifying leads to drive new business relationships, then growing value-add relationships with key decision makers by becoming a trusted advisor
  • Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams
  • Refine and evolve our “land-and-expand” model in collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, and Customer Success teams
  • Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and current customers while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value based selling approach
  • Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities, as well as the greater sales ecosystem (including, but not limited to Sales Development Representatives, Account Managers, and Customer Success) to drive new business and retain customers
  • Develop innovative proposals, position complex pricing structures and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently
  • Work closely with Customer Success & Marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented with the respective customers
  • Your compensation plan includes Monthly and Annual accelerators for over achievement against your bookings goals.

What you need to be successful

  • 4+ years of B2B SaaS sales experience – a minimum of 2 years in a closing role
  • 2+ years of experience successfully selling complex technical software
  • You embody a true “hunter” – you have experience generating pipeline and closing new business
  • Experience with a “land-and-expand” sales model
  • Experience with a Product Lead Growth sales model a plus
  • History of selling complex technical solutions to customers who span distinct divisions (e.g. marketing, IT, sales leadership)
  • History of working closely with Partnerships to drive business
  • Ability to understand the Contentful API and discuss outcomes with multi-threaded relationships across C-level stakeholders highly technical individuals
  • Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
  • All candidates must align with our company core value of Be Humble, Embody A Growth Mindset, Start With The Customer And Work Backwards, and Strive Together
  • Willingness to travel (up to 25%)
  • College degree (BA/BS)

What’s in it for you?