Vice President, Management Company Controllers - Short Hills -

Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives. · With over $295 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets and GP Strategic Capital. Anchored by a strong perma ...

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Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives.

With over $295 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2025, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, Real Assets and GP Strategic Capital. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation.

Together with approximately 1,365 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. To learn more, visit 

Job Summary: 

Blue Owl is seeking an experienced accounting Vice President to join the Management Company Controllers Team to oversee accounting and financial operations across our expense and accounts payables teams. This is a senior and critical role and will ensure accounting and the related processes and controls are performed timely and appropriately. The ideal candidate will also oversee the offshore accounts payable team, drive automation initiatives to enhance existing processes and controls, deliver insightful analytics and reporting and serve as a key liaison for stakeholders across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the accounts payable function, including management of the accounts payable team, adherence to process and control framework, upfront accounting coding and reporting of aged items
• Develop near and long-term technology roadmap for expense and payables team partnering with Finance IT
• Collaborate with cross-functional finance teams, including FP&A, to utilize reporting technology to create financial analytics dashboards and other reporting and analysis over accounts payable
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across financial systems and reports
• Manage the general ledger coding for invoice processing, ensuring invoices are recorded correctly and in accordance with appropriate accounting and internal policies
• Manage and oversee the Concur expense management system, ensuring compliance with corporate travel and expense policies, accurate reporting, and timely resolution of issues
• Oversee cash accounting, inclusive of journal entry approvals, management of offshore cash accounting team, monthly bank account reconciliations, and management of bank account openings/closures
• Monitoring of legal matter creation and expense coding, partnering with Legal team where necessary to ensure appropriate invoice recording and processing
• Main point of contact on escalation issues regarding invoicing and accounts payable processing
• Oversee accounting and reporting of Blue Owl fair value investments, including calculation of equity pick-up and mark-to-market adjustments
• Oversee internal, external and regulatory audits over accounts payable
• Partner with Fund Recoverable controller, Compliance and Fund Team controllers to charge invoices across fund complexes and track recoverability
• Oversee fund invoice reallocation process to ensure expenses are aligned and billed to the appropriate fund teams

Offshore Team Management

• Lead and mentor offshore finance teams, ensuring alignment with corporate policies and timelines
• Establish clear performance metrics and conduct regular reviews to maintain operational excellence
• Foster collaboration between onshore and offshore teams to streamline workflows and reporting

Requirements:

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA or equivalent preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in accounting and financial operations.
• Strong understanding of accounting standards, process and controls and financial applications.
• Proven experience managing onshore and offshore teams.
• Proficiency in financial systems and automation tools.
• Familiarity with Oracle, EAS or similar accounting systems.

Professional Expertise & Performance

• Deliver complex projects, analyses, and initiatives with minimal oversight, consistently exceeding expectations with strong attention to details.
• Demonstrate superior technical and problem-solving skills; adept at managing multiple tasks and shifting priorities.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve team efficiency, performance, and functional effectiveness.
• Ability to manage and own day-to-day operations of a team with minimal oversight or guidance
• Experience in expense accounting/cost allocations preferred

It is expected that the base annual salary range for this New Jersey based position will be $150,000 - $185,000. Actual salaries may vary based on factors, such as skill, experience, and qualification for the role. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance.

Blue Owl is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.