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Leverage Companies

Data-driven real estate private equity

Fund Accounting Manager - Brick City Capital

Financial AccountingUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeNewark, NJ, USA$80k - $110k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Three to five years of accounting experience; experience in private lending, real estate, private equity, or fund accounting is strongly preferred.
  • A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
  • Strong working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and multi-entity accounting structures.
  • Proficiency in QuickBooks, including chart of accounts design, class-based tracking, and entity structure.
  • Comfort working with data exports, reconciliations, and multi-source financial tie-outs.
  • Proficiency in Ramp or an equivalent modern accounts payable platform.
  • Active, comfortable use of artificial intelligence tools in day-to-day finance workflows, including drafting, research, reconciliation support, and process thinking.
  • Ability to quickly understand a complex business, ask appropriate questions, and work with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the Fund Accountant as the team grows.
  • Reconcile, review, and approve accounting entries related to the debt fund.
  • Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting close process and generate and distribute the financial statement package.
  • Review and deliver management fee and investor waterfall calculations, ensuring fund agreement provisions are followed.
  • Analyze agreements and side letters to ensure the fund operates according to them.
  • Oversee calculation and distribution of investor capital calls and distribution notices.
  • Monitor fund liquidity, prepare weekly cash balance reports, and own data entries related to ACH and wire transactions.
  • Review and approve fund-level expenses.
  • Fulfill information requests from investors and other stakeholders in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Maintain the investor portal.
  • Create, document, and execute standard operating procedures for financial matters involving the debt fund and institutionalize the knowledge base across the organization.
  • Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund, including period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management.
  • Assist with revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division, tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources.
  • Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures.
  • Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with fund accounting, including investor capital ledgers, preferred returns, distributions, and net asset value calculations.
  • Exposure to real estate entity accounting, including acquisitions, development projects, or property management portfolios.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce or another customer relationship management or enterprise resource planning system used as a financial source of truth.
  • Experience with or understanding of private lending mechanics, including origination, warehouse lines, and loan-level economics.
  • Certified Public Accountant credential or active CPA candidacy.
  • Background in a high-growth, smaller-operator environment where building and fixing processes was part of the job.
  • Familiarity with Ramp's AI-assisted features, including memo coding, automated categorization, or accounts payable workflow automation.

About the Company

Leverage Companies

Data-driven real estate private equity

Leverage Companies is a Newark, New Jersey-based real estate private equity firm that handles acquisitions, asset management, and private lending across its divisions. It uses an in-house data platform to analyze hundreds of data points and generate a seller motivation score, helping source real estate opportunities in northern New Jersey; its divisions include Brick City Capital (real estate financing), Leverage Homes (residential acquisitions and revitalization), Deals & Dollars (network and podcast), and Leverage Cares (financial literacy nonprofit). It combines data-driven deal sourcing with vertically integrated operations and a mix of debt and equity products to accelerate deal flow and manage assets locally. Its goal is to disrupt traditional real estate private equity by applying data analytics to identify opportunities and support urban revitalization in Newark and surrounding New Jersey communities.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Newark, NJ
Founded
2018

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