Staff Accountant

Location: Dallas

To apply, please email resume to: careers@legacyknight.com

Position Summary:

The Staff Accountant will be primarily responsible for performing consolidated reporting for our investment vehicles and our partner families, and will work on numerous other company reporting, accounting, and analysis functions. This role reports to the Senior Acccountant.

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Coordinate with fund administrators to ensure client statements, capital calls, and distributions are completed in a timely manner.
  • Coordinate with clients to ensure capital calls and distributions are contributed in the required timeframe and received into the requested accounts.
  • Coordinate quarterly consolidated reporting for our partner families, including gathering investment statements and performance, capital call projections, and other financial analyses.
  • Assist the team in streamlining and automating processes and procedures, including account openings, completion of subscription documents, new client checklists, and other ad hoc requests.
  • Manage Legacy Knight MFO’s books utilizing Quickbooks, including reconciling bank accounts, reviewing invoices, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.
  • Help maintain relationships with ultra-high net worth clients and prospects with the highest standards of customer service, communication, integrity, and responsiveness.
  • Preparation of ad hoc financial reports and presentations for clients.
  • Prepare financial analyses for various fund investment issues; including, debt management, cash flow forecasting and other ad-hoc analysis.
  • Partner with administrator and external auditors for fund financial statement audits.
  • Ensure compliance with all regulatory guidelines and bank policies.
  • Assist in annual Form ADV filings with our CCO and outside compliance consultant, including calculating AUM, AUA, and AUS.
  • Track and report on investment performance for client investments.
  • Operate with a high degree of autonomy and collaborate effectively with company personnel.

 

Minimum Position Requirements:
  • 1-2 years’ experience working in public accounting in the financial sector or previous experience in a family office preferred.
  • CPA preferred, but not required.
  • Bachelor’s Degree Required; Finance or Accounting major required.
  • Ability to multi-task and function in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong financial analytical skills and understanding of basic financial concepts.
  • Desire to learn and grow professionally in the personal financial management business.
  • Experience using Windows based software, including all Microsoft Office applications, and the
    Internet.
Other Essential Candidate Traits:
  • Experience reading and analyzing investment portfolio statements
  • Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills, initiative, and ability to make decisions within guidelines
  • Attention to detail must be a strength
  • Willingness to learn, expand responsibility outside accounting duties
  • Experience working with QuickBooks or similar accounting software utilized for bookkeeping
About Legacy Knight:

Legacy Knight is driven by a transformative mission to set a higher standard in the family office industry. Leveraging our decades of experience advising prominent families, we aim to define this standard of excellence through innovative institutional-quality investments and an unwavering commitment to family service. Through this, our tenured family office professionals empower our families to preserve and elevate their Legacy for generations to come. 

To apply, please email resume to: careers@legacyknight.com