Job Description

Fractional Controller / CFO, Fund Accounting

Finance as a Service (FaaS) | Fund Accounting and Portfolio Finance | Contractor

The Opportunity

Fund investors expect accurate allocations, clean statements, and answers that hold up under audit. Fund managers expect a finance leader who sees what is coming: capital needs, acquisition timing, and the reporting that follows each new portfolio company.

ROSE is looking for a senior fund finance leader to fill that seat for our clients. You will run fund accounting from launch to audit, direct the relationship with the fund administrator, and guide managers through the acquisition of operating companies, including companies that serve the intelligence community and the Department of War (DoW).

This is a controller-to-CFO seat. You will work alongside ROSE CFO Members, Controllers, and our Tax and GovCon teams, inside Easby, with automation and a team that handles repetitive work so your time goes to review, judgment, and advice.

What You Will Do

Fund Accounting and Reporting

• Own fund-level financial reporting, including the monthly and quarterly close, annual financial statements, and the reconciliation of fund books to administrator records
• Serve as the primary contact for the fund administrator: set expectations and deadlines, review the NAV packages, capital account statements, and allocations they prepare, challenge what does not tie, and drive open issues to resolution
• Direct the investor allocation process for private equity, hedge, and other pooled funds, including master and sub fund structures, and approve allocations before they go to investors
• Review subscriptions, redemptions, transfers, and special situations such as side pocket investments
• Review capital call, distribution, and carried interest calculations against fund documents
• Lead new fund launches and accounting system conversions, from fund documents and structure through first close and cutover
• Lead the annual audit as the main contact for external auditors, from the request list through issued statements
• Coordinate valuation inputs and support for portfolio holdings, and fund tax reporting with ROSE Tax and the fund's outside tax providers

Acquisitions and Portfolio Companies

• Support financial due diligence on acquisition targets, including review of quality of earnings work, working capital, and the target's accounting practices
• For targets that perform U.S. Government work, assess contract types, indirect rate structure, and the readiness of the accounting system against FAR, DFARS, and DCAA expectations, and identify gaps before close
• Guide purchase accounting, the opening balance sheet, and day-one finance integration for acquired companies
• Set up portfolio company reporting, including monthly packages, KPIs, and cash forecasts that roll up to a fund-level view
• Oversee GovCon finance at portfolio companies, including indirect rates, timekeeping, and incurred cost submissions, with support from the ROSE GovCon Advisory team

Leadership, Controls, and Advisory

• Advise fund principals on liquidity, capital call timing, budgets, and forecasts, and present results to investors and investment committees
• Design and enforce fund-level internal controls and accounting policies, and find gaps before they become audit findings
• Supervise, train, and develop accountants, so knowledge sits with the team and not with one person
• Work inside Easby to manage transactions, approvals, reconciliations, and reporting workflows
• Identify manual steps in allocations, reconciliations, and reporting that can be automated, and help build the replacement routine
• Collaborate with ROSE CFO Members, Controllers, Tax, and GovCon Advisory to deliver integrated financial management for each client

What Makes This Role Different

At many firms, the fund finance role ends at the administrator hand-off. At ROSE, you own what happens before it, after it, and when it goes wrong.

Your role is more than:

• Reviewing what the administrator sends and signing off
• Producing reports that look backward
• Working in isolation

You will:

• Hold the administrator accountable for accuracy and timing, and own the quality of the fund's books
• Connect fund accounting to the acquisitions that drive it, from diligence through integration
• Build routines and controls that scale as a client adds funds, investors, and portfolio companies
• Work with AI tools and automation that remove manual work, so you can focus on review and judgment

How the Role Grows

ROSE is growing its Strategic Fractional CFO practice, and we want senior finance leaders who are ready to shape it. For the right person, this role offers:

• Scope matched to your experience, from controller-level ownership of the close to CFO-level advice for fund leadership
• Access to ROSE's financial management framework, including FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and performance advisory
• Working support from ROSE Tax and GovCon Advisory specialists
• Peer collaboration with senior ROSE CFO Members and Controllers

Who You Are

What You Bring

• 15 or more years of accounting and finance experience, with at least 8 in fund accounting, fund finance, or investor accounting for private equity, hedge funds, or similar pooled vehicles
• Prior leadership of a fund finance function or team at the controller level or above
• Hands-on depth in investor allocations, subscriptions and redemptions, master, feeder, and sub fund reporting, and capital activity and carried interest
• Direct experience working with a fund administrator, and the judgment to know when to push back
• Experience launching new funds and leading accounting system conversions
• Experience owning annual fund financial statements and working directly with external auditors
• Experience supervising and training accountants
• Clear communication with fund principals, investors, and non-finance stakeholders, without hiding behind jargon

Strong Plus

• CPA license (strongly preferred), or an MBA
• Working knowledge of investment company accounting under US GAAP (ASC 946)
• Acquisition experience, including financial due diligence, purchase accounting (ASC 805), or integrating acquired companies
• Familiarity with government contracting finance (FAR, DFARS, DCAA, indirect rates), especially for companies serving the intelligence community or DoW
• Experience supporting multiple clients or fund structures at the same time
• Curiosity about technology and openness to learning new platforms, even when the old way is familiar
• A team-first approach in the real sense: no silos, no hand-offs without context, no single points of failure

About ROSE

At ROSE Financial Solutions, we believe finance should not be a reporting function. It should be a strategic engine for growth.

We are on a mission to automate 85% of finance and accounting by 2030, building decision-ready infrastructure that helps leaders scale with confidence. Our platform, Easby, sits at the center of that work: it connects client data, automates routine tasks, and gives clients near-real-time financial clarity. In more than 30 years, ROSE clients have a 100% pass rate on DCAA, financial, bank, and compliance reviews.

Why ROSE

• Work with high-growth companies and mission-driven leaders across a range of industries
• Be part of a firm redefining finance through FaaS, AI, and Easby
• Flexible contractor structure with real peer support and a path in our fractional CFO practice
• Collaborate with a team of experts across accounting, tax, compliance, GovCon, and financial technology
• A culture built on honesty, accountability, and real investment in your professional development

Ready to Build Something?

If you are a fund finance leader who wants more than a close cycle, and you are ready to work inside a firm that backs its people, we want to talk.

Apply now and tell us where you are in your career and where you want to go.

ROSE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ROSE will not tolerate discrimination against any employee or applicants on any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: age; ancestry; childbirth or related medical condition; citizenship; color; creed; familial status; genetic information; height; weight; marital status; national origin; physical or mental disability or handicap; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; uniform service member status or veteran status.

Third-party resume submissions are not accepted. Any resume submitted will be considered the property of ROSE, and ROSE will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.