Company Overview

DwellFi is a California-based AI startup bringing cutting-edge AI capabilities to private markets, empowering firms across Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, and Private Credit.

Our platform combines AI-powered document intelligence, deterministic business rules, workflow orchestration, and human oversight to streamline processes across fund operations, fund accounting, investor servicing, and reporting.

As we grow our institutional client base, we are expanding our team of experienced financial services professionals and technology specialists to support client engagements, drive product innovation, and deliver scalable automation solutions.

Why This Role Exists (The Strategic Mandate)

As DwellFi continues to grow its institutional client base, we are expanding our team to support increasingly complex client engagements and continued product innovation.

Our clients operate in complex environments involving multiple teams, legal entities, systems, calculations, approvals, and controls. Delivering effective automation requires a deep understanding of how these processes work individually and how they connect across the investment lifecycle.

This role will play a key part in translating complex operational processes into detailed, production-ready workflows in partnership with our product and engineering teams. Equally important, this individual will lead substantive operational and technical discussions with clients, understand their specific requirements, and help design solutions that address their business challenges.

The role combines deep private markets expertise, hands-on workflow design, and client-facing technical leadership to support DwellFi's continued growth.

Core Responsibilities

Pillar 1: Operational Workflow Design &

- Product Development (40%)

- Translate Operational Expertise into Product Design: Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex private markets operational processes into detailed functional specifications, business rules, data requirements, calculations, controls, and exception-handling procedures.
- Design End-to-End Workflows: Define how processes operate across the investment lifecycle, including acquisition execution, capital calls, distributions, funding allocations, treasury coordination, fund accounting, reconciliations, and reporting. Document inputs, outputs, dependencies, approvals, and downstream system interactions.
- Define Document Intelligence &
- Data Mapping Requirements: Establish business logic for extracting, interpreting, validating, and mapping information from unstructured documents, including LPAs, side letters, capital call and distribution notices, capital account statements, banking records, and financial statements.
- Ensure Accounting &
- Operational Integrity: Apply industry standards and accounting principles, including ILPA guidelines, GAAP/IFRS, waterfall calculations, recallable distributions, and subscription facility transactions, to define accurate, auditable processing rules.
- Support Product Validation &
- Quality: Develop real-world transaction scenarios, edge cases, and acceptance criteria to validate workflow functionality, calculations, reconciliations, and exception handling before client deployment.

Pillar 2: Client Engagement &

- Technical Solution Leadership (40%)

- Lead Client Discovery &
- Technical Discussions: Independently lead detailed operational and technical conversations with prospective and existing clients, including CFOs, Fund Controllers, Heads of Operations, and technology stakeholders.
- Demonstrate Deep Industry Expertise: Confidently explain complex private markets transaction lifecycles, operational processes, accounting requirements,



and controls, establishing credibility as a knowledgeable industry practitioner.
- Translate Client Requirements into Solutions: Lead discovery sessions to understand client operating models, identify manual processes and operational challenges, and translate requirements into practical automation workflows.
- Lead Solution Demonstrations: Present DwellFi's capabilities through detailed workflow walkthroughs, explaining business rules, calculations, exception handling, approvals, and downstream system integrations.
- Support Technical Solution Design: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to assess requirements, define integration needs, and develop solutions that work within clients' existing technology environments, including platforms such as Investran, Geneva, eFront, Allvue, and other fund accounting and investment systems.
- Build Trusted Client Relationships: Serve as a senior operational and technical counterpart throughout discovery, proof of concept, implementation, and ongoing client engagement, incorporating feedback into product development and solution improvements.

Pillar 3: Domain Leadership &

- Cross-Functional Collaboration (20%)

- Cross-Functional Domain Collaboration: Partner with product, engineering, implementation, and commercial teams to incorporate deep private markets expertise into product development, solution design, and client delivery.
- Establish Reusable Operational Knowledge: Develop and maintain workflow documentation, business rules, process maps, transaction scenarios, and validation frameworks that support consistent product development and client implementations.
- Support Product Strategy &
- Market Positioning: Collaborate with leadership to align product priorities, demonstrations, and client-facing materials with real-world operational requirements and emerging industry needs.
- Monitor Industry Developments: Stay informed of relevant accounting, regulatory, and industry standards, including ILPA guidance and private markets reporting requirements, to support product evolution and client discussions.

Must-Have Experience Candidate Profile &

- Qualifications

- 8+ Years of Private Markets, Fund Operations, and/or Fund Accounting Experience: Extensive hands-on experience across private equity, venture capital, real estate, private credit, or other closed-end fund structures, with a strong foundation in fund operations, investment operations, and/or fund accounting.
- Institutional GP or Fund Administrator Background: Demonstrated experience within an institutional General Partner, private markets investment manager, or fund administrator, with direct responsibility for complex fund operations, investment operations, or fund accounting processes.
- End-to-End Private Markets Operational Expertise: Deep understanding of operational workflows across the investment lifecycle, including investment transactions, acquisition funding, capital calls, distributions, co-investments, funding allocations, treasury coordination, reconciliations, and reporting. Ability to explain how these processes connect across teams, legal entities, and systems.
- Solid Fund Accounting Knowledge: Demonstrated expertise in capital accounting, capital calls, equalization, subsequent closes, distribution waterfalls, carried interest, management fees,



cash and position reconciliations, NAV reporting, and financial close processes.
- Fund Structures, Agreements &
- Controls: Strong understanding of LPAs, side letters, fund structures, SPVs, co-investment vehicles, subscription facilities, and associated accounting, reporting, approval, and control requirements.
- Operational Workflow Design &

Requirements Definition: Proven ability to translate complex business processes into detailed functional requirements, process maps, business rules, calculations, data mappings, validation criteria, and exception-handling procedures.

Experience collaborating with product, engineering, technology, or implementation teams to deliver operational solutions.

- Client-Facing Operational &

- Solution Leadership: Proven ability to independently lead complex client discovery sessions, operational and solution design discussions, and functional product demonstrations with senior institutional stakeholders, including CFOs, Fund Controllers, Heads of Operations, and technology teams. Strong executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex private markets operational and accounting processes clearly and confidently.
- Private Markets Technology &
- Data Expertise: Hands-on experience with fund accounting or investment management platforms such as FIS Investran, SS&C; Geneva, eFront, Allvue, Yardi, Dynamo, or comparable systems.

Strong

Excel capabilities and practical understanding of data flows, system integrations, reconciliations, and operational controls.

Preferred Qualifications

- Professional Credentials: CA, CPA, CFA, MBA in Finance, or equivalent professional qualifications.
- Product Development Experience: Experience serving as a private markets, fund operations, or fund accounting subject matter expert (SME) in product development, working with product managers and engineering teams to translate complex operational requirements into software capabilities.
- Automation &
- Technology Experience: Hands-on involvement in workflow automation, AI-enabled solutions, or digital transformation initiatives within private markets, fund operations, or fund accounting.
- Solution Design &
- Implementation: Experience contributing to functional solution design, business requirements, product testing, or implementation of private markets technology platforms.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, taking ownership of initiatives, and contributing to product innovation as the business grows

What Success Looks Like In 3 Months Client Engagement &

- Technical Leadership:

Has independently led complex operational discovery sessions, technical discussions, and product demonstrations with prospective and existing institutional clients, effectively translating their requirements into practical solutions. Product Development &

- Workflow Design: Has partnered with product and engineering teams to design, document, and validate complex private markets workflows, including business rules, calculations, controls, exceptions, and system integrations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Has established effective working relationships across product, engineering, implementation, and commercial teams, contributing specialized domain expertise to product enhancements, solution design, and client delivery.Trusted

Client Partnerships: Has built strong relationships with key clients and design partners and is recognized as a knowledgeable operational and technical counterpart throughout discovery, implementation, and ongoing engagement.

Skills: fund accounting,fund operations,private equity,fund administration,private markets

📌 Principal – Private Markets & Fund Operations (India - Remote)
🏢 DwellFi
📍 India