Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Fund Accounting and Administration

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Fund Accounting and Administration resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • fund accounting
  • nav
  • net asset value
  • private equity
  • hedge fund
  • capital call
  • distribution
  • waterfall
  • carried interest
  • management fee
  • investran
  • efront
  • geneva
  • yardi
  • gaap
  • ifrs
  • financial statements
  • reconciliation
  • trial balance
  • audit
  • investor reporting
  • limited partner
  • general partner
  • portfolio valuation
  • expense accrual
  • fund administration
  • capital account
  • k-1

The eight questions for Fund Accounting and Administration

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many funds or entities do you account for, and of what type?
  2. 2.What is the total AUM or NAV of the funds you handle?
  3. 3.How many NAVs do you produce, and at what frequency and accuracy?
  4. 4.Which fund accounting systems and tools do you work in?
  5. 5.How many capital calls, distributions or investor reports do you process in a quarter?
  6. 6.How many audits or financial statement cycles have you supported, and with what outcome?
  7. 7.What is your break resolution or reconciliation turnaround?
  8. 8.How many clients, investors or team members do you serve or supervise?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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