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Location: Manayunk

Other locations: Anywhere in Region

Date: Aug 21, 2026

Requisition ID: 1728626

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

EY is a leader in serving the global financial services marketplace and the only professional services firm with a separate business unit dedicated to the financial services industry – the Financial Services Organization (FSO). Our focused model and bold ambition have put us at the center of the events that continue to reshape and redefine our industry, working side by side with a range of clients from our most venerable institutions to dynamic new entrants across Banking and Capital Markets, Wealth and Asset Management, Insurance, and Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction. Our purpose is to help build a financial services industry in which financial institutions are trusted and flourish, and the global economy is healthy, growing and secure. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve complex challenges, then come join our dynamic FSO team!

The opportunity

You will play a key role in defining the way Private Equity ("PE") and PE Fund of Fund General Partners ("GP") meet their reporting requirements for fund controllership, investment books and records, regulatory, tax, and financial statement. Top-tier GPs and investment managers are increasingly looking to EY to provide operational services for critical functions, in parallel with their current custodians. Join our team in building a new service model and identifying innovative ways for GPs to their manage books and records and create, accurate, and timely fund financial statements.

Your key responsibilities

• Understand the intricacies of PE and PE Fund-of-Fund accounting operations and financial statement reporting
• Perform critical accounting activities, including capital calls, distributions, quarterly valuations, accruals, and transaction processing
• Manage associate and entry-level staff to drive execution of daily accounting activities and provide high-quality work within expected timeframes and budget
• Be part of defining new procedures and controls to enhance the overall operational risk process
  Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and budgets
• Assist with managing risks and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes
• Stay current on business and industry trends relevant to our clients, including the latest PE fund structures and investment record keeping standards
• Deliver client and process requirements in a regulatory driven environment, and understanding operationally complex fund controllership principles
• Develop relationships with team members across multiple geographic locations and time zones

Skills and attributes for success

• Understanding of processes and ability to execute detailed procedures based on knowledge of fund controllership, investment books and records, and/or financial statement processes, and regulatory filing principles
• Mastery of the intricacies in private equity and PE Fund of Funds, fund controllership and/or financial reporting
• Knowledge of PE and Fund of Funds investment characteristics and the application of regulatory and financial reporting rules to those investments

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, economics, finance, or related discipline
• Minimum 3 years of work experience related to fund controllership, fund valuation, capital calls and distributions, board reporting and production of audited financial statements
• Experience related to fund controllership, investment books and records, and/or fund administration
• Analytical skills, especially an understanding of transaction posting, and investment trial balance debits and credits related to fund controllership, investment books and records and asset management
• Strong proven communication skills demonstrated through effective writing and presentations to clients and internal stakeholders; based on critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• An understanding of financial products and services, in particular private equity funds
• An interest in working in an environment which encourages continuous learning, development, and identification of opportunities for improvement of individual and team performance
• A willingness to work in an office when production activities require but will have the flexibility to work remotely (average 3 days / week in-office requirement)

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• CPA
• Experience in financial statement reporting/analysis
• Effective leadership, project management, and organizational skills
• Experience with software tools including document management systems, workflow systems, partnership accounting, investment accounting such as eFront, Investran, or other investment sub-ledger software
• Experience in financial statement reporting/analysis

What we look for

You should be flexible and able to juggle multiple responsibilities, including delivery of exceptional quality work to our clients. In addition, you’ll be a motivated self-starter, and will value sharing best practices with your colleagues and leaders.

What Working at EY Offers

We offeracompetitivecompensationpackage where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. So that whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Join us in building a better working world.

What we offer you
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learnmore .

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $67,600 to $138,000. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $81,100 to $156,900. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

EY focuses on high-ethical standards and integrity among its employees and expects all candidates to demonstrate these qualities.

EY | Building a better working world

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