ASC 820 Valuation Analyst

Job Description

Carta is hiring a ASC 820 Valuation Analyst to join our Investor Services team. As an ASC 820 Valuation Analyst, you will work directly with venture capital clients to determine the fair value of their privately held investments for financial reporting purposes. In this role, you will be involved in multiple concurrent projects from the initial kick-off call through the end of the client’s audit. In addition to working with clients, you will work closely with our engineering and product teams in developing and testing new software features. This role will provide a strong understanding of many emerging markets and how investors assess company performance in these industries.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects in different stages of the valuation process simultaneously
• Monitor client data collection and communicate any missing pieces to the client and the Carta manager on the project
• Onboard new portfolio company capitalization structures or recent rounds of financing to the Carta platform and review existing structures
• Determine the most appropriate valuation methodology and allocation method given company historic and future performance, market trends, and assumed exit timing and strategy
• Prepare audit defensible ASC 820 valuations that are inline with the client’s internal valuation policy
• Answer questions received from the client’s auditor in regards to the Carta valuation process and the valuations prepared for the client

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting or comparable work experience
• Experience working in a fast paced environment while managing multiple deliverables
• Aptitude for learning quickly and high attention to detail
• Basic understanding of excel

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working in accounting or finance
• Exposure to the world of private equity investments
• Understanding of private market capitalization structures
• Understanding of intermediate excel calculations and HTML
• Exposure CapitalIQ, both the website and the excel plug-in

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