Portfolio Accounting Manager

The Role

Sixth Street has an immediate 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 Fund Accounting teams to support, record and reconcile investing and related cash activities
• Ensure the timely and accurate booking of fund investments in compliance with GAAP to Sixth Street’s accounting and other key systems. Oversee the reconciliation of such activities to the Funds’ Administrator.
• Provide oversight of the Funds’ Administrator
• Assist with the production of daily and monthly reporting that is distributed to all investment professionals and firm management
• Assist in certain automation and other technology builds.
• Maintain efficient internal controls and business processes
• Identify and help solve for critical accounting and reporting issues
• Manage and perform special projects and analysis

Qualifications

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong player/coach that is hands-on and wants to be an “in the details” team member
• Excellent understanding and application of GAAP and industry accounting practices
• Detail-oriented, organized, responsible, and proactive
• Ability to meet time-sensitive business, regulatory and contractual requirements
• Adept at problem solving
• Self-motivated, willing to work in a team environment and successful in driving consensus with desired results
• An eye for detail and ability to focus on multiple deliverables

Preferred

• 7 - 12 years accounting experience in a combination of public accounting (either audit or tax), alternative asset or investment management firm, or fund admin
• Experience with alternative investments, credit and structured products investments, private equity and partnership accounting, fund administration, and Advent Geneva are preferred
• Experience with investment performance reporting and analytics are a plus
• Strong accounting and excel skills; professional certification (CPA or equivalent)

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

For more information, visit the Sixth Street Careers site or follow us on LinkedIn.

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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