Senior Accountant, Management Entity Accounting
Carlyle Investment Management, LLC

Job Info

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Position Summary

The senior accountant is responsible for supporting the allocations and accounting functions.

Allocations: The senior accountant is responsible for preparing time certifications, reporting, and allocation calculations. The quarterly time certification process involves verbal and written communication internally to determine and document employee related recoverable time. It also includes managing large Excel files and obtaining approvals through DocuSign. Allocation calculations include complex Excel formulas and logic. The senior accountant must develop a strong understanding of the data, including cost drivers, benefits derived, metrics used and impacts to stakeholders.

Accounting: The senior accountant will support the monthly accounting close, daily accounts payable voucher coding review, reporting and ad hoc projects as assigned. Monthly close responsibilities primarily include preparing or reviewing and posting journal entries, preparing supporting documentation for accounting transactions, accounting research, preparing balance sheet reconciliations and reviewing and approving certain balance sheet reconciliations. Accounting tasks often involve Excel files containing pivots and formulas. Accounting entries and voucher coding review requires a strong accounting foundation and attention to detail. Accounting systems include Ariba (AP vouchers), PeopleSoft (accounting system) and OneStream (account reconciliations). Reporting involves data analysis in Excel, often involving Pivots and data mapping.

This position is responsible for ongoing communication and reporting to inter- and intra-departmental teams on related topics. This position must be detail oriented and organized; and have strong communication skills with confidence in communicating with a multitude of senior professionals across several departments, solid organizational and analytical skills, and the ability to develop and build relationships across departments with all levels of staff.

Most responsibilities involve Excel, Outlook and PeopleSoft. This position requires competence in attention to detail as it involves handling a large volume of transactions across various entities.


Key Duties/Responsibilities

Allocations: 50% of time
Quarterly time certifications require identifying the population of employees, communicating with team leads to obtain the recoverable time, and preparing and requesting approval of time certifications
Allocation calculations: requesting data inputs from business owners, running data from accounting system and data cubes for cost pools, working within and maintaining large and complex excel calculation files
Journal entries: prepare the monthly accrual entries for internal cost recoveries, prepare the quarterly or annual allocation entries

Accounting: 50% of time
Monthly close

• Journal entries: includes pulling data from various systems and/or sources, preparing supporting documentation, entering entries in PeopleSoft, answering review questions, reviewing and posting certain journal entries, and maintaining organized records of transactions. Accounting entries are primarily recurring revenues, allowance for doubtful accounts and expense accruals.
• Research: respond to ad hoc requests and questions. This may require researching activity in the general ledger, Ariba and/or network files, corresponding with other departments and responding with explanation and support appropriate to the audience.
• Balance sheet reconciliations: prepare monthly reconciliations including balance explanations and expected resolution, proposing correcting journal entries, error identification and escalation, review and approve certain balance sheet reconciliations.

Accounts payable coding review - involves reviewing coding for appropriate classification (i.e. asset, expense, etc.), account, department and project. It may also include collaborating with other departments to understand the transaction before validating the coding.
Reporting - involves preparing various monthly and quarterly reports for various stakeholders and management. This process primarily utilizes PeopleSoft and Excel.


Qualifications

Education & Certificates

• Bachelor's degree required; Concentration in Accounting, Finance or Economics degree preferred

Professional Experience

• Minimum 3 years of relevant accounting experience in either industry (preferred) or public accounting, required
• Private Equity or Financial Services experience preferred but not required
• Experience with global operations preferred

Position-Specific Technical Requirements

• Strong communication skills
• Strong team player with a positive attitude
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Organized and efficient
• Able to multi-task and prioritize workload
• Detail-oriented
• Microsoft Office skills -MS Excel, Outlook, Power Automate
• Experience with Oracle/PeopleSoft or another ERP system preferred
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and communication skills

Company Information

The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $325 billion of assets under management and more than half of the AUM managed by women, across 498 investment vehicles as of March 31, 2022. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with nearly 1,900 professionals operating in 26 offices in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Carlyle places an emphasis on development, retention and inclusion as supported by our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments - Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Investment Solutions - and has expertise in various industries, including: aerospace, defense & government services, consumer & retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial, real estate, technology & business services, telecommunications & media and transportation. At Carlyle, we know that diverse teams perform better, so we seek to create a community where we continually exchange insights, embrace different perspectives and leverage diversity as a competitive advantage. That is why we are committed to growing and cultivating teams that include people with a variety of perspectives, people who provide unique lenses through which to view potential deals, support and run our business. As our Chief Executive Officer, Kewsong Lee, stated, "We seek to attract individuals from a broad set of backgrounds and experiences because we know that diverse teams ask better questions and inclusive teams find better answers. Our diverse and inclusive community makes us better partners and ultimately, helps us to build better."

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