Senior Associate, Private Equity Fund Operations & Implementation

Location: Remote from Colombia (no exceptions)

Working hours: Full-time, aligned w/ Eastern business hours

Job Type: Contractor, monthly payments in US dollars

Benefits: 9 paid holidays, plus 10 days of PTO available after 6 months

For many U.S. and Canadian companies, finding and keeping affordable, highly skilled talent remains a challenge. Across Latin America, talented professionals seek stable, innovative projects with industry-leading companies.

At the company, we’ve spent over a decade solving this puzzle. We’ve helped countless North American companies scale their teams while opening doors for Latin American professionals to access career-defining opportunities.

We are currently expanding a Colombia-based nearshore implementation team for a U.S. fintech client specializing in the private funds industry. The team works inside the client's U.S.-based Implementation team, configuring, testing, and validating fund structures and calculations in the client's platform. Superior English and communication skills are required.

We're also hiring an Implementation Lead. If you have more experience than this role asks for, apply to this posting and we'll consider you for the Lead role as well.

Our Ideal Candidate

You've worked at least two years on the operations or accounting side of private equity, at a fund, a fund administrator, or a fund software company. You've calculated the actual distributions paid to investors under a fund's waterfall and can explain how each tier works. This role suits fund operations and fund accounting backgrounds more than investment or deal-team roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Implementation Work: Own either a substantial piece of a larger financial implementation involving multiple entities, structures, or workflows, or a full, single-entity implementation end-to-end, with minimal oversight.

• Propose Solutions: Identify edge cases independently and propose solutions rather than escalating for direction on every issue.

• Guide Others: Provide guidance to Associates on specific pieces of work.

• Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with the U.S.-based Implementation, Product, and Engineering teams, surfacing issues uncovered during testing and implementation.

Technical Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in accounting or finance operations.

• 2+ years in the private equity industry as a fund accountant, fund operations professional, or implementation specialist at a fund manager, fund administrator, or fund management software provider.

• Hands-on experience calculating or reviewing distribution waterfalls: return of capital, preferred return, GP catch-up, and carried interest.

• Ability to build a waterfall or distribution model in Excel from fund terms and transaction data.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and demonstrated comfort managing large, complex data sets.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Fluent written and spoken English (B2+), with strong communication skills for daily coordination with a U.S.-based team.

Preferred Skills

• Track record of implementing, configuring, or rolling out software, systems, or operational processes, ideally with SaaS or cloud-based platforms.

• Experience with investor distributions, capital accounts, or NAV calculations.

• Hands-on experience using AI tools to build or support automations.

• Experience adjusting quickly to evolving workflows, priorities, and tooling.

Nice to Have

• Experience with complex or non-standard waterfalls: multiple investor classes, IRR hurdles, whole-fund and deal-by-deal structures, or clawbacks.

• Experience reconciling waterfall results against a fund's limited partnership agreement or other governing documents.

• CPA or equivalent experience.