--- title: 'Senior Fund Accountant at Squarepoint Capital' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-fund-accountant-squarepoint-capital-montreal-pwtr08rxscps' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-10' --- # Senior Fund Accountant at Squarepoint Capital - **Company:** Squarepoint Capital - **Location:** Montreal, Canada / Jersey / London, United Kingdom / Warsaw, Poland - **Posted:** 2021-10-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10 - **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=3604160&gh_jid=3604160 ## Job description Position Overview: The candidate must be comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment with an ability to deliver high quality work in collaboration with colleagues in different offices and service providers in different time zones. - Review calculation of estimated and final NAVs for a group of hedge funds and private equity funds, including FX classes of investors, side pockets and SMAs - Ensure management fees, performance fees, distribution waterfalls, and allocations are calculated in accordance with PPMs, IMAs, LPAs and side letters. - Review investor subscription, redemption and capital call and distribution documents processed/prepared by fund administrator(s) - Shadow allocations for certain funds and maintain database with investor information - Review fund operating expenses prepared by fund administrator and provide comments/changes - Process expense payments related to the funds and review allocations based on the expense allocation policy - Review of fund administrator-prepared annual financial statements, and liaise with external auditors and fund administrator(s) regarding financial reporting and timely issuance of financial statements - Compile information for due diligence requests from investors and counterparties, assist with other ad hoc - Prepare monthly reporting files for management and other interested parties - Implement systems, processes, and procedures to improve efficiency while maintaining adequate internal control environment Required Qualifications: - Must have Hedge-fund fund accounting experience - Accounting experience on Private Equity, Venture Capital, and CLO entities a plus - Public or a mixture of Big 4 & private accounting experience; 8+ yrs. of fund accounting experience including - Experience with investor and partnership allocations and related software (i.e. Backstop, Hedgetek, Investran, etc.) - Exceptional analytical skills - Strong attention to detail - Team player with excellent communication skills. - Ability to multitask - Highly organized ## About Squarepoint Capital ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients. - **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays) - **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management - **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B) - **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform. ## Products & Services - **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data. - **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings. - **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles. - **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets. - **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house. - **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style. - **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability. ## Strategic Focus - **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies. - **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity. - **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence. - **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration. - **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems. - **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility. ## Sources 1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/) 2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital) 4. [builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital) 5. 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