Senior Director, Fund Finance

Position Description

LISC Fund Management (LFM) seeks an experienced fund finance professional to serve as Senior Director, Fund Finance within the Fund Management & Finance team. The Senior Director is responsible for leading the financial reporting and close process across LFM-managed funds, ensuring that fund financial statements are accurate, timely, complete, and appropriately analyzed and communicated to internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Fund Financial Reporting, Close & Analysis (40%): Lead the quarterly and annual financial reporting and close process across 12-24 LFM-managed funds and related entities, ensuring timely completion of accurate financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Fund Administration, Treasury & External Partner Management (25%): Serve as the day-to-day relationship owner for Broadstreet Impact Services and other third-party financial service providers, including fund accounting, treasury management, and loan servicing vendors.
• Audit, Compliance & Financial Reporting Infrastructure (20%): Lead the financial reporting and finance workstreams for annual audits of LFM-managed funds, coordinating financial statements, schedules, supporting documentation, responses, and proposed adjustments with Broadstreet, external auditors, Fund Managers, and other stakeholders.
• Leadership & Cross-Functional Financial Partnership (15%): Supervise, coach, and develop the Senior Associate, Fund Finance, establishing clear responsibilities for first-level review, issue identification, and reporting support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive accounting, fund finance, or financial reporting experience, including significant direct experience with investment fund accounting and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience leading recurring quarterly and annual close processes across multiple investment funds or comparable investment entities, including funds at different stages of their lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of the full fund financial lifecycle, including accounting close, financial statement preparation and review, reconciliations, audit, ongoing fund operations, and fund wind-down.
• Experience overseeing third-party fund accounting, treasury management, and loan servicing providers, including reviewing deliverables, resolving discrepancies, managing service expectations, and escalating performance issues.
• Experience overseeing fund-level treasury activities and controls, including cash activity, bank account administration, and related financial reporting.
• Working knowledge of loan servicing operations, with the ability to review servicing outputs and identify financial, accounting, or reconciliation issues.
• Significant experience leading financial workstreams for annual fund audits and organizational financial audits, including coordination of supporting schedules, auditor requests, proposed adjustments, and findings.
• Experience supporting SEC examinations or other comparable regulatory examinations within an investment management environment.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, investment fund accounting and financial reporting, internal controls, and applicable investment management regulatory requirements.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to independently review and analyze complex financial workbooks, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills, with demonstrated experience coordinating across external financial service providers, auditors, internal finance teams, and business leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent fund closes, audits, vendor relationships, and reporting deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience supervising, reviewing, coaching, and developing finance or accounting professionals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex accounting and financial information into clear, decision-useful insights for senior leadership.

Preferred:

• CPA or other relevant accounting or finance credential.
• Experience within private equity, private credit, real estate, impact investing, or another investment fund environment.
• Experience with funds at multiple lifecycle stages, including launch, active investment, maturity, and wind-down.
• Experience establishing or improving fund finance policies, close procedures, internal controls, and reporting practices within a growing investment platform.