Description
Finance and Accounting Manager | Single Family Office & Foundation
Location: Financial District, New York City
Work Arrangement: In-office Monday through Friday (5 days/week)
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For 18 years, our single family office has been more than just an investment firm — we’ve been builders of legacies, investors in the industries of the future, and champions of impactful philanthropy.
City Hall Capital (CHC) is a single-family office based in NYC’s Financial District with public and private investments in a wide range of sectors, asset classes, and geographies. We also operate King Rook Capital (KRC), our commercial real estate arm, and the Issroff Family Foundation (IFF), a 501(c)(3) with active grantmaking operations across East and Southern Africa. Our team operates like a close-knit family, united by our core values: integrity, excellence, proactiveness, curiosity, collaboration, learning, and inclusion.
We’re seeking a Finance and Accounting Manager, reporting directly to the CEO and principals, to become the financial backbone of all three entities — serving as finance and investment professional at KRC, steward of IFF’s finances and finance policies, and trusted partner to our outside accountants.
We have a need today for concrete bookkeeping skills and general financial fluency, but we envision the role evolving as the successful Manager today may become a senior executive for one or several of the CHC, KRC, and IFF entities in the future. Our office has runway for your career to grow according to the development of your skills and your interests and passion.
The Role: Five Pillars of Financial Excellence
Pillar 1: Tax & Accounting Compliance
Own the books and serve as a true in-house accounting partner for CHC, KRC, and IFF by:
- Full-Cycle Bookkeeping: Maintain accurate books across all three entities in QuickBooks and other industry-standard tools
- Tax Collaboration: Work closely with our outside accountants; source, download, and organize all K-1s and other relevant documents in advance of filing deadlines
- Document Management: Maintain a well-organized repository of financial records and tax documents
- Accountant Oversight: Review and sanity-check accountant output including partnership tax returns and IFF Form 990s — you should have enough expertise to identify errors, inconsistencies, or items requiring clarification before sign-off
Pillar 2: Foundation Finance (IFF)
Be the financial engine of the Issroff Family Foundation’s finance operations by:
- Budget Management: Craft, refine, and maintain IFF’s annual budget; build and update actuals-vs-budget tracking on an ongoing basis; iterate on budget projections as grantmaking plans and the investment portfolio evolve
- Grant Disbursements: Execute wires for grants, reimbursements, and stipends to grantee organizations across East and Southern Africa
- Working with Fiscal Sponsors: Source, engage, and manage fiscal sponsors to ensure beneficiaries have maximal opportunities for funding; track inflows and outflows related to external funding
- Compliance & Verification: Perform KYC verification and wire recipient verification for all new grantees and payees; maintain documentation standards required under IFF grant agreements and donor restrictions
- 990 Review: Review and sanity-check the annual Form 990 prepared by our accountants to ensure accuracy and completeness
Pillar 3: King Rook Capital
Serve as the financial point person for KRC’s real estate portfolio (see www.kingrookcapital.com) as we work to stabilize economics across our properties:
- Property-Level Reporting: Read, interpret, and track weekly/monthly property management reports (including occupancy summaries, leasing trend data, rent rolls, and market rent benchmarks) for all KRC properties; maintain organized tracking dashboards
- Financial Analysis: Build and maintain property-level P&L models; track NOI, vacancy loss, effective rent, and other key metrics; identify trends and flag variances to principals
- Vendor & Expense Management: Track property-level expenses, review invoices, and ensure contracted work is actually done to principals’ satisfaction
- Lender & Partner Reporting: Assist in preparing periodic financial packages for lenders or JV partners as needed
- Strategic Support: Proactively come up with financial insights that can help stabilize and improve property-level economics; act as a true thought partner to the principals, including assessing future growth in the property portfolio
Pillar 4: Office Finance & Administration
Keep the day-to-day financial operations of CHC and KRC running efficiently by:
- Expense Reimbursement: Create and administer a formal expense reimbursement process for CHC and KRC employees; ensure timely review, approval routing, and payment
- Office Budget & Bills: Track the physical office budget; manage vendor subscriptions and recurring bills; proactively identify services we are paying for but not using and recommend cost - optimizations
- Efficiency Ownership: Ensure we are operating as efficiently as possible — you should proactively flag redundancies, renegotiate vendor terms, and bring a continuous-improvement mindset to our overhead
- Accounts Payable: Process and track payments; maintain accurate payment logs and reconciliations
Pillar 5: Future-Proofing, Growth and Expansion, Continuity, and Succession
Help us think of the future of CHC, KRC, and IFF:
- Incorporating AI: Stay on top of latest developments in frontier AI models, chatbots and their wrappers, and other tools to keep everyone productive and free up time for longer-term and strategic thinking
- Other opportunities and responsibilities that may come should the successful Manager grow into a senior executive for one or several of the CHC, KRC, and IFF entities
Compensation & Benefits
We believe in rewarding excellence:
- Competitive Salary: $90,000-$120,000 base commensurate with experience and qualifications
- Performance Bonus: Discretionary bonus recognizing exceptional contribution
- Comprehensive Benefits: Full benefits package
- Time Off: Paid time off and market holidays; parental leave
- Growth Opportunity: Exposure to high-level investment, philanthropic, and real estate operations in a lean, high-trust team environment
Requirements
The Ideal Candidate
You bring:
- Experience: 3–5+ years of bookkeeping or accounting experience, preferably spanning both for-profit entities and nonprofit/foundation work; family office or private wealth management experience a strong plus
- Education & Certification: Bachelor’s degree; major or minor Accounting, Finance, or a related field a plus; CPA license a plus; QuickBooks ProAdvisor certification a plus; experience in QuickBooks alternative such as Xero a plus
- Technical Mastery: Expert-level QuickBooks proficiency; fluency with Excel/Google Sheets for financial modeling and tracking; experience with Bank of America CashPro and/or JPMorgan banking platforms preferred; familiarity with international wire processing
- Nonprofit Expertise: Strong desire to increase experience or get experience to the nonprofit world from a finance and strategy perspective; working knowledge of ASC 958, Form 990 preparation and review, and grant compliance strongly preferred; experience with foundations or donor-restricted funds strongly preferred
- Real Estate Finance: Ability to read and interpret property management reports, rent rolls, and basic real estate financial statements; NOI/cash flow modeling experience a plus
- Exceptional Traits: Strong sense of ethics; meticulous attention to detail; proactive ownership mentality; sound judgment on compliance and controls; discretion in handling confidential financial information; clear written and verbal communication
What Sets You Apart
You’re not just looking for a job — you’re seeking a role where you can own an entire financial function across multiple interesting entities. You thrive in environments that reward intellectual curiosity and initiative. You proactively identify problems before they surface, bring order to complexity, and feel genuine satisfaction in being the person that everyone trusts with the numbers.
In your cover letter, please answer the following questions:
- Describe a time you caught a significant error — in your own work or a colleague’s — that could have had serious financial or compliance consequences. What happened, what was your process, and what was the outcome?
- What are the five most important things we should know about you? Please list the answers in bullets.
- What sets you apart from everyone else who is applying for this job?
