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Drive financial excellence across a diverse family of enduringly profitable companies.
What We're About
Saturn Five is a family of enduringly profitable companies where customers win and employees flourish. We are, technically, a lower-middle-market private equity company, but we're a bit different. We buy and hold our investments for the long term, and we invest in companies that we're proud of, but most of the private equity market isn't interested in. If you love the impact of well-run businesses and can help them advance through sound financial leadership, we may have a seat waiting for you.
The Role: Senior Accountant
This role combines fund accounting, partnership tax, and small business operations.
As Senior Accountant you will be:
- The point person for coordinating and reviewing our annual tax filings
- The first point of contact for accounting questions from operating companies
- A key contributor to our treasury management process including our resident expert that troubleshoots banking issues and account permissioning.
- A key contributor to our annual audits and financial reviews
- A key contributor to updating our fund reporting metrics
What Makes This Role Different
This isn't your typical Senior Accountant position. You'll be:
- Supporting finance team operations internally and across the Saturn Five portfolio
- Assisting with implementing long-term, scalable systems that support our orientation towards sustainable growth, and long-term ownership rather than optimizing for exits
- Guiding the firm to maximize quarterly distributions to investors and helping employees flourish
- Assisting in investor tax reporting and audit support
- This position requires someone who can operate at a high level, but is humble, hungry and scrappy enough to dig into transactional-level detail at our portfolio companies on a regular basis.
You'll work closely with Saturn Fives CFO, Group Controller, and with the finance leads at the different operating companies. As Senior Accountant, you'll assist in the preparation and review of quarterly fund-level financials, capital account statements, investor reporting, and PBCs for our audit and tax partners. In addition, youll assist with fund waterfalls, NAV calculations, and other performance metrics. You'll be part of a team-first growing finance organization and need to have the ability to context switch and have comfort working across a range of different situations.
Core Responsibilities
1) Tax Support
- Support annual tax filings: coordinate PBCs, review returns, and process 1099s
- Partner with tax advisors and review tax returns and K-1s for accuracy
- Research and support tax strategy initiatives (nexus, sales tax, accelerated depreciation)
- Support local operating company finance leaders on tax questions and needs
2) Accounting Support
- Support quarterly and annual financials, capital accounts, distributions, and investor reports
- Assist with fund performance metrics including NAV, waterfalls, and other fund reporting metrics
- Assist with annual reviews/audits for our funds and operating companies
- Help integrate new acquisitions and improve financial systems across the portfolio
- Research appropriate accounting and tax standards as well as documenting and communicating conclusions.
- Assistance with treasury operations
- Provide financial support to Overmatch, a Saturn-Five-affiliated venture capital group
3) Operational Finance and System Design
- Train and support operating company accounting and bookkeeping staff
- Monitor and report KPIs with actionable financial insights
- Identify and implement process improvements
- Contribute to treasury operations and cash flow planning
What You'll Bring
4+ years of experience, ideally with:
- Fund accounting or private equity / venture capital experience
- Public accounting with exposure to partnership tax
- Small business finance experience with capital account maintenance, waterfall models, and fund-level reporting
- Familiarity with QuickBooks, Sage, and similar systems
- Excellent attention to detail, critical thinking, and comfort working with incomplete information
- Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships and collaborate across functions
- Ability to thrive in fast-changing environment and context switch effectively
- Knowledgeable of US GAAP, CPA certification preferred
- Demonstrated ability to leverage technology to increase efficiency and performance
- Smart, great work ethic, humble, likes to laugh, curious, servant leadership, commitment to excellence, bias towards action, and trustworthy.
The Details
Location: On-site in Northwest Denver
Compensation
- Performance-based bonus
- Health and dental insurance
- Retirement plan with matching
- 10 PTO days and 13 paid company holidays
- $200 monthly stipend for coaching/counseling
- $100 monthly date night allowance for you and your spouse
Are you the one?
Send an email to , and include three things.
- Attach your resume
- Attach a video (phone video is fine), 90 seconds or less, answering: A) What are you passionate about? and B) Why are you interested in this position?
- In the email, share the following Self-Assessment:
On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being world-class at the item and 1 being an area of inexperience, please rate your knowledge and experience of the following:
- Fund accounting
- Experience with fund calculations including NAV, waterfalls
- Partnership Tax
- Small business accounting
Seniority level
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Accounting/Auditing and Finance-
Industries
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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