At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.
With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.
Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.
Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.
The Role:
A critical role on a central team at Forge, the Fund Administration Operations Analyst’s primary function would be to support all areas of Fund Administration on the Forge platform, taking holistic ownership of the fund lifecycle process.
Success in this role would require being adaptable to an evolving workplace, eager and willing to learn and determined to add value through high-quality work and thoughtful insights.
Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a thorough understanding of workflows and existing processes to identify areas of improvement
- Work cross-functionally with Forge’s internal teams, including Marketplace Operations, Sales, Legal, Compliance and Product.
- Gain a deep knowledge of the operational needs and high-level objectives of each project.
- Conduct detailed analysis and valuation of secondary market securities.
- Execute liquidity distributions, ensuring accurate allocation and client satisfaction.
- Support tax reporting processes to ensure compliance with applicable deadlines.
- Perform data validation and quality checks on financial inputs to ensure accuracy; supporting integrity across reporting systems.
- Respond to client inquiries including trade, tax, reporting, and valuations.
- Maintain comprehensive, up-to-date internal documentation.
- Ability to identify key areas where there is opportunity to automate or improve workflows.
Requirements:
- 1-2 years of prior experience in a professional setting - operations, consulting, finance, accounting, fund management and/or law experience is ideal
- Superior critical thinking skills and demonstrated success working in an entrepreneurial environment is ideal.
- Excellent attention to detail and verbal/written communication skills.
- Comfort performing in fast, high-pressure situations
- Desire to create efficient, scalable and efficient process workflows from scratch
- Comfortable approaching issues at both a detailed and high level
For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $65,000 - $75,000+ annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors
Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test.
Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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