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📒Fund Accountant (modernization)

Closing the books on a real-time ledger that didn't exist 18 months ago.

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What this role pays — by city, years & skill stack

New York · Wall Street + wirehouses + a fintech bench
$89k
$74k – $108k median band

Illustrative ranges — calibrated from Levels.fyi, Glassdoor and Robert Half wealth-tech guides. Real offers vary widely by firm, equity, and team. Use this to compare cities & skill stacks, not as a quote.

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Same tool, different weight

How Fund Accountant (modernization) reads across sectors — depth, orientation and the tools each side actually runs.

Wealth

Statement and fee accuracy.

Asset

NAV production, ABOR, fund administration.

How the work gets done

The same four lenses applied to every capability and skill page.

Performance & billing

2 operations

  • Position, cash, and accrual reconciliation

    daily

    Breaks surfaced to an exception queue with the suggested fix and the same-day SLA to clear before NAV.

  • Fee accrual & invoice generation

    quarterly

    Tiered/blended schedules, householding, and adjustments produce auditable invoices ready for custodial debit.

Day-in-the-life

Month-end — subscriptions and redemptions don't tie

A subscription posted twice, a redemption posted to the wrong sleeve, and the tax-lot cost basis is off by $812. You walk it back through the automated ledger, find the duplicate webhook, and write a guardrail so it can't happen again.

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How to land — and survive — as a Fund Accountant (modernization)

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    Run the Skill DNA drill — see where you stand on Data reconciliation across silos
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    Fund Accountant (modernization) playbook (preview)

    Hand-curated checklists, real templates, and the failure modes nobody documents — see the first 30% free.

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  3. Step 3 · 1:1 · operator session
    Mock interview with an operator

    30-minute 1:1: role-specific case prompts, portfolio review, and offer-negotiation talk-track.

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