Associate Accountant
CIFC Asset Management - new york city, NY
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Overview:A global alternative asset manager focused on credit solutions across CLOs, corporate credit (including senior loans and high yield bonds), structured credit, opportunistic credit, and direct lending. Founded in 2005, our seasoned investment professionals have an acute focus on downside risk with bottom-up credit research applied across all of our disciplines. We are currently seeking a staff accountant with approximately 1-3 years of experience to join our corporate accounting team. This role is based in NYC with a 4 day in-office schedule (Mon-Thurs in office, Fri remote).Primary ResponsibilitiesAssist with the month-end and year-end close processes, including preparing journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis and maintaining support schedulesAssist in overall AP process working with our outsourced AP team to address questions and escalate issues as neededAssist with AR process which includes recording transactions, along with maintaining and reconciling receivable balances for both managementincentive fees and reimbursable fund expensesAssisting with cash management which included preparing wires, recording bank transactions, bank reconciliations and coding cash activity in the internal data warehouseRecord depreciation for all fixed assets and maintain relevant supporting schedules Update and maintain prepaid asset schedule by adding new invoices, booking monthly expense amortization, and reconciling schedule to the general ledgerAssist with financial statement preparation, including footnotes and supplemental schedulesSupport annual audit process and various ad-hoc requestsRequirementsBachelor's degree with 1-3 years of public or private accounting experienceIntermediate-to-advanced Excel skillsCPA license or demonstrated progress toward obtaining is preferredExperience with Workday FIN andor Dynamics GP, while not required, is a big plusStrong attention to detail with an analytical mindsetStrong work ethic, possesses a can-do and positive attitude Ability to work well independently and as part of a team
Created: 2025-03-03