Associate Director - Family Office Accountant

Posting Duration: This posting will be up through April 2024 unless it is extended to find the right candidate.

Position Summary:

The Associate Director - Family Office Accountant (FAO) will be primarily responsible for a variety of family office accounting and reporting tasks for the CEO/Founder and will work proactively and collaboratively with, and report to, the other members of the family office team including the Managing Director-Finance & Accounting, the General Counsel and the Chief Financial Officer. The Family Office Accountant must have a strong understanding of accounting best practices, stakeholder communications, forecasting, and have a strong background in Quick Books and other software. The candidate should have the ability to interpret data, and the skillset to transform raw data into comprehensive, understandable, and streamlined reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the accounting for entities owned by our CEO/Founder and his family.
• Reviewing invoices and expenses related to these entities, getting appropriate approval for payment, and initiating payment. Experience with bill.com is a plus.
• Coordination of fund transfers as needed.
• Scheduling and attending periodic meetings to update the key stakeholder and others on the status of key items.
• Monthly reporting packages for key stakeholders.
• Quarterly reporting packages needed in support of guarantees and loan covenants.
• Working with tax firms to provide necessary and appropriate financial and other information.
• Cash flow analysis and forecasting.
• Other duties as needed and requested.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Expertise in general accounting, AP/AR, reconciliations, financial statement prep & reporting, month-end closing activities, payroll, taxation, FP&A (cash flow forecasting, DCF modeling & valuation, variance analysis, etc.), and financial controls.
• Deadline driven with the ability to handle multiple tasks for multiple projects.
• Highly organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to pivot, prioritize, and multi-task.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a small company team environment.
• Professional in demeanor, actions, and attitude toward colleagues and external vendors.
• Proactive in looking for ways to improve processes or streamline workflows.

Education & Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent work experience required.
• Prior accounting experience; family office accounting a plus.
• Experience with Bill.com or other online payment service.
• Proficient in NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, or similar.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office products to include advanced Excel skills (comfortable with financial modeling, macros, VB programming, etc.)
• Prior Investment Management or Real Estate industry experience preferred but not required.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None for now.

Key Job Competencies:
To perform this job successfully, the individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

1. Analytical Skills: Collects and researches data; designs workflows and procedures; identifies data relationships and dependencies; synthesizes complex or diverse information; and, uses intuition and experience to complement data.
2. Quality: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.
3. Judgement: Displays willingness to make decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment; supports and explains reasoning for decisions; includes appropriate people in decision-making process; makes timely decisions.
4. Planning & Organization: Integrates changes smoothly; plans for additional resources; prioritizes and plans work activities; sets goals and objectives; uses time efficiently; and, works in an organized manner.
5. Achievement Focus: Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence; recognizes and acts on opportunities; sets and achieves challenging goals; takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
6. Dependability: Commits to doing the best job possible; follows instructions, responds to management direction; keeps commitments; meets attendance and punctuality guidelines; responds to requests for service and assistance; and, takes responsibility for own actions.
7. Business Acumen: Understands business implications of decisions; displays orientation to profitability; demonstrates knowledge of market and competition; aligns work with strategic goals.

In addition to the above job-specific competencies, all Forum employees are expected to demonstrate these Forum core competencies:

1. Adaptability: Accepts criticism and feedback; accustomed to a culture of rapid and constant change and easily adjusts to changing priorities and conditions; manages competing demands.
2. Innovation: Develops innovative approaches and ideas; displays original thinking and creativity; generates suggestions for improving work; meets challenges with resourcefulness.
3. Collaboration: Recognizes and cultivates strong interpersonal relationships and cross-functional collaborations; generates value and uses motivation to influence and create change; seeks not to control but to inspire; facilitates dissemination and sharing of knowledge and information.
4. Accountable: Keeps and follows-through on commitments; readily takes ownership of achieving results by exhibiting responsibility and initiative; displays open, proactive communication that builds trust.
5. Initiative: Asks for help when needed; looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; seeks increased responsibilities; takes independent actions and calculated risks; undertakes self-development activities; volunteers readily.
6. Respectful: Displays integrity and honesty; maintains professional demeanor and composure in tense situations; exhibits fairs and generous behavior; readily owns up to mistakes and admits when wrong; strives to "get it right;" displays loyalty even when tough to do so.

Forum Values:
Blaze the Future (Entrepreneurial): Take initiative. Push what's possible. Own your path but stay nimble. Embrace change, take risks, and always challenge the status quo.

Make it Better Together (Collaborative): Go all in. Get Messy. Welcome new ideas and share yours freely. Be a sponge. Bump heads. Talk it out. Listen. Learn. Repeat.

Stay Open (Vulnerable): Have the courage to make yourself vulnerable. Communicate honestly and respectfully. Share mistakes and trust one another.

Dare to be Clear (Clarity): Certainty is impossible, but clarity is essential. Eliminate the noise and focus your strategy to achieve something better, something great.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Compensation Information: Base salary range is $100,000 to $154,500. This range is estimated for this role; actual pay may be different.

Benefits for full-time employees include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, employee assistance program, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) with company match program, 12 paid company holidays, self-managed PTO, anniversary milestone program/awards, gift matching program.