Senior Accountant

About Us

Chicago Loop-based private family office seeks a high energy, well-organized, competent, hard-working, dedicated, and ambitious Senior Accountant to join a growing, dynamic growth equity and entrepreneurial team. Skybox Capital is a family office that invests opportunistically in all asset classes, including public and private equity, hedge funds, real estate, and direct investments in a variety of industries. The family office also serves the tax, financial, administrative, and personal interests of the founders and their related entities which includes trusts, limited liability companies, and foundations.

Your Core Contributions to The Team

The Senior Accountant position offers a unique opportunity to be an integral member of a small, high-functioning team that values quality service, excellence, and hard work. The focus of the Senior Accountant will be to assist with the delivery of financial reporting to the members of the families by executing all aspects of the day-to-day financial accounting and operational processes. Responsibilities will include:

• Daily operational and investment accounting, including account reconciliations, accounts payable, and transaction reporting.
• Prepare detailed reconciliations on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis for bank, credit card, and investment accounts owned by individuals, trusts, and partnerships.
• Assist with accounting for multiple entities, trusts, and individuals, including recording receipts/disbursements and maintaining the general ledgers.
• Assist with treasury functions (i.e., receipts, disbursements, wire transfers, account reconciliations, etc.) for multiple bank and investment accounts.
• Own the transaction entry process into accounting and investment management software for a variety of asset types (private equity fund, hedge funds, operating companies, etc.).
• Assist with maintaining the accuracy/integrity and completeness of financial data and non-financial records.
• Responsible for ongoing cash management including daily cash review, bank/broker reconciliations, check/write review, weekly cash disbursement reports, and monthly cash sources and uses report.
• Assist with tax support and compliance with all entity filings and quarterly estimated payments for all partnerships, LLCs, trusts, and individual returns.
• Preparation of workpapers and account analyses in connection with tax return preparation.

About You

Knowledge, Abilities, and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Licensed Certified Public Accountant preferred.
• Minimum 1 to 3 years of experience in accounting, reporting, and client service.
• Solid knowledge of financial accounting is very important.
• Experience with partnership, trust, and investment accounting a plus.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Experience with Addepar Wealth Management platform a plus.
• Experience with Oracle NetSuite Accounting ERP a plus.

Personal Characteristics

• High level of ownership; holds self and others accountable for results.
• A commitment to quality service, excellence, and hard work is essential.
• Solid problem-solving skills and solution-focused perspective.
• Tremendous work ethic.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proactive, anticipates and acts before the need arises.
• Highly organized with the ability to multitask.
• Ability to interact professionally and respectfully with internal personnel, family members, and outside advisors.
• Ambitious and hard-working; goes the extra mile.
• Strong sense of urgency, sensitive to adhering to deadlines.
• Motivated self-starter and independent thinker; continuous learner, eager to know more and willing to share knowledge with others.
• Excellent planning and time management skills and resourcefulness with flexibility to adapt to new and unanticipated challenges and contingencies.
• Able to balance and accommodate shifting priorities in schedules, demands, and requirements.
• Reliable, high integrity, trustworthy, and discrete above reproach, specifically as relates to confidential and proprietary business and family information.
• Strives to identify efficiencies and incorporate new and effective ways to achieve better results.
• Excited by working in an entrepreneurial, dynamic, fast-paced, small office environment.
• High level of competence in executing responsibilities.
• Exhibits positive attitude; maintains professional demeanor and ability to have even the most difficult conversations while navigating firm, family, and other dynamics.
• Given regular daily interaction with staff and others, highly sociable, personable, diplomatic, respectful, cooperative, adaptable, approachable, collaborative, and poised.

All the Other Stuff

This position reports to our Controller and is an exempt position.

Skybox Capital is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce. We are committed to building an environment of mutual respect, free of discrimination and harassment, where opportunities are available to everyone based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

The job functions listed above represent the primary duties and responsibilities of this job and in no way state or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by you. Other duties and responsibilities within the scope of this job may be assigned. You will be required to follow all instructions and to perform all duties requested by your manager, subject to reasonable accommodation and within the scope of the position.