MD, Agentic Fund Finance & Legal
Equi· Fund Operations
Hybrid (New York (on-site))$170k - $225k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior finance leadership role owning the finance function for the Equi fund complex and the management company, with focus on financial reporting, fund operations, legal architecture for new vehicles, and building automated processes.
Responsibilities
- Financial reporting and the close: NAV cycle across every vehicle, reconciliation with providers, and sign-off before investor delivery; maintain close calendar and standards.
- Fund expenses, budget and corporate finance: annual fund expense budget, allocation policy across vehicles, re-billing between fund and management company; corporate financials, burn, runway and board reporting.
- Treasury and money movement: cash position across operating and fund accounts, bank and prime broker relationships, wire controls and approvals.
- Audit, tax and regulatory: annual audit, tax cycle oversight, regulatory compliance in partnership with the compliance team, ongoing ownership of fund documents, side letters and investor agreements.
- Fund launches, structuring and legal: financial and legal architecture of new vehicles, governing documents, entity formation, registrations, onboarding, and liaison with outside counsel.
- Partnership with fund operations: collaborate with Head of Fund Operations on investor onboarding, capital activity, and day-to-day close, ensuring financial standards and controls.
- The provider network: manage relationships with administrators, outsourced fund-ops, auditors, tax preparers, counsel, prime brokers and banks, ensuring service quality and renegotiation when missed.
- The agents that run the function: design/build automations for intake, reconciliation, exception flagging and reporting, with production-grade checks and failure modes.
- Financial systems and records: maintain a single source of truth, documented procedures, and tooling to run the finance function.
Qualifications
- Deep fund accounting and fund operations experience (8-12 years) in a fund complex, administrator, hedge fund, multi-strategy fund, private-markets manager, or outsourced fund-CFO practice.
- Agentic fluency: proven track record building agents/automations that handle statements, reconciliations, memo drafting, and exception handling with demonstrable impact in the last six months.
- Fund legal fluency: experience working with fund counsel on launches, structuring and documentation; ability to read PPMs, side letters, subscription agreements, and run formations with limited counsel input.
- Technical range beyond Excel: scripting, automations, internal tools, or ability to quickly adopt new tools; not limited to spreadsheets.
- Small-firm operating experience: hands-on leadership in a lean environment, capable of deep involvement where needed.
- Provider oversight: experience managing administrators, transfer agents, auditors, tax preparers, outside counsel, prime brokers and banks.
- Controls and judgment: disciplined, confidential handling of investor capital and close processes.
- Ownership mentality: proactive problem ownership and clear communication when issues arise.
Skills
Required:Fund accountingAgentic automationFund legal fluencyTechnical range beyond ExcelLeadership in lean environment
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with base range and equity/bonus opportunities
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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