Associate Director, Accounting

Cercano Management LLC (“Cercano”) is a multi-family office that provides investment advisory services, including access to a range of alternative investment funds, while also offering clients a comprehensive suite of family office services. Cercano is based in Bellevue, WA, with offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Singapore. Cercano invests globally for its clients, commonly operating as the family office Chief Investment Officer.

The team has extensive experience in direct investing in all stages of venture capital, private equity, private credit, and public equities on a global basis.

At Cercano, we focus on delivering to a select group of families, a client experience informed by the heritage, discretion, investment access, and alignment commonly associated with a single-family office. We dedicate ourselves to understanding each family’s objectives and values and to developing customized, holistic solutions that support long‑term growth and generational wealth preservation. Our goal is to serve as a trusted partner by offering services at the intersection of institutional investment management, alternative investment funds, operational capabilities, and family office services.

We are currently seeking an associate director who will play an integral role in Cercano’s accounting department directly supporting the Chief Financial Officer to oversee regular operations of the management company. The ideal candidate is someone with excellent organizational skills, self‑motivated, and detail oriented. The candidate must have strong written and oral communication skills and be able to interface with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

• Financial close and reporting
  • Assist in month and year‑end close processes, ensuring all transactions are properly recorded.
  • Maintain various asset and accrual accounts.
  • Analyze the general ledger to ensure accuracy and completeness of activity.
  • Assist with the external annual audit, proactively addressing non‑routine transactions throughout the year.
  • Prepare month and year‑end close for Capital Acquisition Broker entity and assist with annual external audit.
  • Review month and year‑end close for Singapore based entity and process transactions as necessary.
  • Prepare annual consolidation of underlying entities.
• Accounts receivable and revenues
  • Assist in reviewing fee calculations and client expense reimbursements and record related revenues.
  • Calculate and record deferred revenue.
  • Reconcile and record collection of accounts receivable.
  • Assist in funding of general partner investments and expenses, including collection from various employee investors.
• Accounts payable and vendor management
  • Liaise and partner with the Fund Accounting team to appropriately apply and review client expense allocations.
  • Review and manage underlying data for client expense allocations.
  • Review processed vendor invoices for proper allocations to clients, departments, and G/L accounts.
  • Ensure vendor payments are timely processed and manage reimbursement for client processed vendor payments.
  • Manage vendor relationships and provide professional external and internal written communication in response to accounts payable inquiries.
• Expense reporting
  • Review and monitor expense reports for proper client expense allocations and general ledger coding.
  • Act as a resource to employees to ensure they properly apply expense allocation policies.
  • Manage corporate credit card transactions; hold employees accountable for timely reporting credit card transactions.
• Tax compliance
  • Oversee sales and use tax analysis on expenditures and prepare monthly and quarterly use tax and B&O tax returns.
  • Lead the annual 1099 reporting process.
• General
  • Apply company…