The posting
Bain Capital
With approximately $225 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms. We create lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Over four decades we have strategically grown our platform to focus on Private Equity, Growth & Venture, Capital Solutions, Credit, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,985+ employees in 24 offices on four continents.
We partner differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential. Founded as a private partnership in 1984, we have fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering our people to define and own their career trajectories. Today, our partnership approach enables us to pursue strategic growth, build enduring relationships with a robust external network, and collaborate across our integrated platform to connect the deep and diverse expertise that unlocks breakthrough insights.
Our people are the heart of our advantage. Colleagues at all levels have a seat at the table as they tackle business challenges with a principal investor mindset. By asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and remaining intellectually agile, we work together to achieve exceptional outcomes.
About the Role
Bain Capital is seeking a Vice President to play a key leadership role within its U.S. Corporate Finance organization, reporting to the U.S. Controller. Positioned at the Management Company level, this role sits at the center of the firm and offers broad visibility across Bain Capital, including significant exposure to the firm’s Deputy CFO and finance leadership across the platform.
Working under the leadership and direction of the U.S. Controller, the VP will oversee the day-to-day management of U.S. Corporate Finance, helping translate the Controller’s strategic priorities into action and driving execution across the organization. The VP will serve as a trusted partner to finance colleagues and business leaders throughout the firm.
This is a leadership role first. We are looking for someone who builds strong teams, collaborates naturally across functions and businesses, and creates clarity and accountability in a complex environment. The successful candidate will bring a continuous improvement mindset, elevate how Corporate Finance supports the firm, and drive the transformation across people, processes and technology to ensure the function is positioned to scale with Bain Capital.
Scope of Leadership
This role will oversee the following US Corporate Finance functions:
- Corporate Accounting & Reporting: Oversee internal and external accounting and reporting functions across the Management Company, its affiliated advisor entities, and the regulated broker-dealer.
- Team leadership: Provide senior leadership and oversight to the Accounting team, working closely with the teams’ managers and under the direction of the U.S. Controller.
- Accounting: Oversee accounting for the firm’s advisor entities, balance sheet investment portfolios, and the regulated broker-dealer. The VP will work closely with the Strategic Capital team on the balance sheet investment portfolios from a consolidation and reporting perspective.
- Reporting: Oversee deliverables to external parties, including covenant and regulatory reporting, covering both consolidated and standalone financial statements.
- Audit: Serve as a key stakeholder in the external audits, working directly with the firm’s external auditors throughout the audit cycle.
- Corporate Finance Operations: Provide leadership and oversight across finance operations, onshore and offshore, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, expense allocations, and time and expense. These teams manage these functions across the firm’s advisor entities.
- Team leadership: Work closely with the Director of Corporate Finance Operations in leading the team, including the managers who run the onshore and offshore teams’ day to day.
- Functional oversight: Oversee fund and advisor payments, expense allocations, revenue recognition, invoicing to funds and portfolio companies, accounts receivable collections, and treasury and payment management.
- Transformation & Strategy: Lead a critical transformation agenda across Corporate Finance building a team that can scale with the firm through process improvement, AI and automation, and more streamlined ways of working across teams.
- Process and control assessments: Lead assessments of key processes and controls across Corporate Finance to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and areas of risk.
- Risk mitigation: Drive targeted control and process enhancement to mitigate identified risks.
- Strategic planning: Develop and execute strategic plans to further streamline processes, improve efficiency, strengthen controls and mitigate risk.
Key Partnerships
The VP will work closely with stakeholders across the firm, including:
- Business unit finance leaders across the Bain Capital platform, to understand each business’s needs and deliver consistent, high-quality support.
- Finance teams in Europe and Asia, working alongside the regional controllers in each region. While those controllers lead their local teams, the VP will help drive global policy and procedure, promoting consistent practices across regions.
- Compliance and Risk Management, on regulatory reporting, the control environment, and firm-wide risk priorities.
- Human Resources, on organizational planning and talent development within Corporate Finance.
- FP&A, as a close partner on the budget, forecast, and long-term planning processes, including workstreams where FP&A and Corporate Finance share ownership, and on aligning reported results with planning and performance analysis.
- Legal and Tax, on entity structure, regulatory matters, tax reporting, and transactions that affect the Management Company.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the U.S. Controller in overseeing U.S. Corporate Finance, jointly setting direction, priorities, and standards for the organization.
- Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing team of directors, managers, and associates, and build bench strength and supporting succession planning.
- Oversee the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of accounting and reporting across the Management Company, affiliated advisor entities, and the regulated broker-dealer, including consolidated and standalone financials, covenant reporting, and regulatory filings.
- Serve as a key point of contact for finance leaders across each business unit, and for partners in Compliance and Risk Management, Human Resources, FP&A, and Legal and Tax, translating their needs into clear Corporate Finance priorities.
- Help drive global finance policies and procedures in partnership with finance teams and regional controllers in Europe and Asia, promoting consistency across the firm’s regions.
- Partner with FP&A on the budget, forecast, and long-term planning processes, including workstreams where FP&A and Corporate Finance share ownership.
- Drive operational excellence across finance operations, including payments, expense allocations, revenue recognition, invoicing, collections, and treasury, along with governance of offshore service providers.
- Lead the transformation of the Corporate Finance operating model to enable the team to scale with the firm. Identify opportunities for process improvement, apply AI and automation, and streamline work across teams.
- Strengthen the control environment across Corporate Finance functions. Assess existing controls, identify gaps and areas of risk, and drive remediation through to closure in coordination with internal and external auditors.
- Represent Corporate Finance in cross-functional initiatives and bring an enterprise-wide perspective to decision making.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant experience in a leadership role.
- Background in asset management, private equity, or financial services, ideally at the management company or corporate level.
- Strong technical grounding in U.S. GAAP, tax basis accounting, and consolidated reporting; broker-dealer regulatory reporting experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience with controls across corporate finance functions, including assessing the current control environment, identifying gaps, and leading remediation.
- Experience managing multi-layered teams and offshore or outsourced partners.
- A track record of leading process and systems transformation, including applying AI and automation to finance workflows.
- Excellent communication and relationship skills, with a track record of building trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders.
What We’re Looking For in a Leader
- A true people leader who inspires trust, develops talent, and builds an inclusive, accountable team culture.
- A transformational leader who challenges the status quo, embraces new technology including AI, and brings the team along through change.
- An exceptional collaborator and relationship builder who earns trust and builds lasting partnerships across functions, businesses, and levels of seniority.
- A skilled influencer who builds credibility and alignment with senior partners across control, support, and business functions.
- An enterprise minded leader who is comfortable operating at the center of the firm, understands how the pieces connect, and can balance competing priorities.
- An excellent written and verbal communicator who can explain complex accounting and finance topics clearly to senior leadership, business partners, and the team.
- Strategic by default and hands-on when needed.
Compensation:
Expected Annual Base Salary $230,000 – $265,000
Actual base salary will be determined by a wide range of factors including but not limited to role, function, level, experience, qualifications and geographic location. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based upon factors such as individual impact, team and firm performance. Bain Capital offers a competitive benefits package designed to support employees’ health, financial security, family needs, and overall well-being.
Bain Capital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
