Senior Manager, Fund Finance & Accounting

BKM Capital Partners is a growing firm looking for driven, entrepreneurial professionals who are passionate about their work and excited about a new challenge. Located in our Newport Beach, California office, the Senior Manager, Fund Finance & Accounting will play a critical role in overseeing the financial management, accounting, reporting, and operations of the firm’s investment funds, co-investments, and joint ventures.

Reporting directly to the Director, Finance & Accounting, this position will serve as a key leader within the Finance & Accounting team, managing an internal team and providing direct oversight of the firm’s third-party fund administrator. The Senior Manager will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of fund accounting and financial reporting while also leading fund-level forecasting, liquidity management, performance analysis, and financial modeling.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong technical accounting foundation combined with a finance-oriented and analytical mindset. This individual should be comfortable moving between detailed financial statements and accounting records, complex fund models and waterfalls, investor reporting, and strategic analysis for senior leadership. The role requires a proactive, hands-on leader who can identify issues, improve processes, develop people, and help build a scalable fund finance and accounting platform as the firm continues to grow.

This role is 100% in-office due to the collaborative nature.

• Lead fund-level financial planning, forecasting, and liquidity management across the firm’s investment vehicles, including funds, co-investments, and joint ventures.
• Review and analyze fund performance, including IRRs, equity multiples, realized and unrealized returns, investment performance, and other key financial metrics.
• Prepare and review fund waterfall models, distribution forecasts, and scenario analyses to evaluate expected investor and sponsor economics.
• Partner closely with Portfolio Management and valuation specialists on quarterly asset and fund valuations, ensuring fund-level models appropriately reflect underlying asset performance and assumptions.
• Provide financial analysis and insights to executive leadership regarding fund performance, liquidity, capital requirements, investment activity, and other strategic matters.
• Support ad hoc financial modeling and analysis related to active funds, new investment vehicles, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and other strategic initiatives.

• Serve as the primary internal owner of fund accounting and financial reporting across the firm’s funds, co-investments, and joint ventures.
• Manage and provide direct oversight of the third-party fund administrator, establishing clear expectations, timelines, controls, and service standards.
• Review and approve quarterly and annual fund financial statements, supporting schedules, partner capital accounts, allocations, and underlying accounting records prepared by the fund administrator.
• Ensure accounting records are maintained accurately and in accordance with U.S. GAAP, fund governing documents, and the firm’s accounting policies.
• Review complex fund accounting matters, including investment activity, intercompany transactions, allocations, management fees, carried interest, fund expenses, and realized and unrealized investment activity.
• Maintain strong internal controls and review procedures over fund accounting, financial reporting, cash activity, and investor-related financial information.
• Identify accounting, reporting, or operational issues proactively and drive them through resolution with internal teams and external…