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Senior Associate Finance

Aksia

Fully Remote
📍 Remote - Worldwide
🇿🇦 SA Friendly: 0.7/1.0

🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Aksia is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Aksia Overview

Aksia is an alternative assets specialist, providing bespoke investment solutions for institutional investors globally. Our business provides clients with advisory, investment management, and research services across private credit, private equity, real assets, and hedge funds. As of December 31, 2025, Aksia advises on over $329bn and manages $35bn of client capital.

Position Overview

Aksia is seeking a Senior Associate to join our internal finance team. Our finance team is responsible for supporting the firm through day-to-day accounting operations, payroll, banking, and broader financial support. This role will also be responsible for managing the firm's tax compliance, with a particular focus on tax allocations and partnership taxation, as well as administration of deferred compensation and carried interest programs. The incumbent will report directly to the firm's CFO and partner closely with Aksia's finance, HR, legal, and external advisors to ensure accurate reporting, strong controls, and efficient processes around all accounting, tax, and deferred compensation matters

This position can be based in one of our US offices or fully remote and will include regular interaction with global colleagues.

Responsibilities:
* Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring accurate and timely completion
* Preparation and review of management financial reporting packages, including P&L reconciliations, variance analysis, and supporting schedules
* Oversee preparation of annual financial statements and working with external auditors to issue audits
* Design and monitor internal controls over financial reporting, including documentation of key processes and controls
* Partner with the CFO on cash flow forecasting, working capital management, and capital allocation decisions
* Lead preparation and review of federal, state, and local tax filings for management companies, GPs, and related entities, working with external tax advisors as needed
* Manage partnership and GP tax reporting, including review of Schedules K-1, PTET, allocations, and partner capital accounts
* Maintain tax calendars, ensure timely filing and payment of all tax obligations, and monitor tax notices, audits, and inquiries
* Own day-to-day administration and accoPlease mention the word **SPIRITUAL** and tag RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTYyLjIyMC4yMzQuMjY=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.

Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

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About Aksia

Aksia is a company in the cfo industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.