Portfolio Accounting Analyst

The Role

Sixth Street has an opening for a bright, hard-working individual to join our Portfolio Accounting team in Dallas.  The Portfolio Accounting team is focused on supporting investing and accounting activities across our private equity, hybrid, and liquid credit funds. The role will be an integral part of a developing team in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment. This individual will be involved in several facets of the operations, including counterparty management, cash management and treasury functions, and reporting and investment performance/analysis deliverables.

Core Responsibilities

• Work with the Operations and Accounting teams to support, record and reconcile investing and related cash activities
• Perform investment, cash and custody reconciliations with the fund administrators and resolve discrepancies
• Monitor investment pipelines
• Ensure the timely and accurate booking of fund investments to the accounting and other key systems
• Assist with the production of daily and monthly reporting that is distributed to all Investment Professionals and Management.
• Participate in a wide variety of special projects, both operating and financial, and compile a variety of special reports

What We Value

• 1-5 years of accounting experience within private equity, hedge fund or alternative assets. Experience with Advent Geneva and/or Allvue Everest strongly preferred.
• Strong accounting and excel skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong understanding and application of industry and market rules and practices
• Detail-oriented, responsible and proactive
• Deadline-oriented to meet time-sensitive regulatory and contractual requirements
• Adept at problem solving
• Candidate must be self-motivated and willing to work in a team environment
• Candidate must have attention to detail and be focused on multiple demands and deliverables

About Sixth Street

Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm founded in 2009. Our long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and "One Team" cultural philosophy allow us to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.

We aren’t looking for any single type of person. Our strength is in our team, a collection of people from different backgrounds and with their own perspectives, united in the mission of being the world’s best investment firm. 

From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core principles: 

• Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs
• Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, our team, and our communities
• Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed
• Action: We initiate, execute and deliver results
• Teamwork: We are better together
• Entrepreneurship: We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business

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Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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