Team Leader of Fund Accounting - eFront

Job Description: eFront & Fund Accounting Specialist

Role: eFront / Fund Accounting Specialist
Experience: 7–10 years preferred
Function: Fund Accounting / Investment Operations / Technology & Implementation
Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced professional with strong hands-on knowledge of eFront and a solid understanding of Fund Accounting , particularly within Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Estate, or other Alternative Investment funds.

Key Responsibilities

- Work extensively on eFront for fund accounting, investment operations, and reporting processes.
- Understand and support the complete fund accounting lifecycle , including: Capital calls and distributions
- Investor commitments
- Contributions and withdrawals
- Management fees and fund expenses
- Investment purchases and disposals
- Income and expense processing
- NAV calculation and validation
- General ledger and trial balance
- Investor allocations
- Carried interest and waterfall calculations
- Fund and investor reporting

- Configure and support fund structures, investors, investments, transactions, accounting rules, and reporting within eFront.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into appropriate system or operational solutions.
- Perform functional analysis, configuration, testing, and validation of eFront changes.
- Investigate production issues and perform root-cause analysis, particularly where accounting results need reconciliation with underlying transactions.
- Support eFront implementations, upgrades, data migrations, integrations, and enhancements .
- Prepare functional specifications, test scenarios, test cases, and reconciliation documentation.
- Support SIT/UAT and coordinate issue resolution with Technology and business teams.
- Work with upstream/downstream applications and interfaces involving accounting, cash, investment, investor, and reporting data.
- Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

- 7 to 10 + years of overall experience , with meaningful hands-on experience in eFront .
- Strong understanding of fund accounting concepts and processes .
- Experience working with Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Fund of Funds, or alternative investment funds .
- Good understanding of: NAV and fund valuation
- Double-entry accounting
- General ledger
- Investor accounting
- Capital activity
- Fees and expenses
- Income allocation
- Carried interest / waterfalls
- Financial and investor reporting

- Ability to understand a transaction from both business and accounting perspectives .
- Experience with eFront configuration, production support, implementation, enhancement, or migration projects.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
- Experience preparing requirements, functional specifications, and test cases.
- Good communication skills with the ability to work directly with Fund Accounting and Operations stakeholders.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

- Experience with eFront Invest / eFront Insight or related eFront modules .
- Experience working on large-scale eFront implementation or transformation programs.
- Experience with accounting and reporting integrations.
- Understanding of IFRS / US GAAP applicable to investment funds.
- Exposure to other alternative-investment platforms or accounting systems is advantageous.