Family Office CFO

Company Overview

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1970. With $28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy.

 

Distinct from other investment platforms, SFM thrives on agility, acting decisively when conviction is high and exercising patience when it’s not. With permanent capital, a select group of major clients, and an unconstrained mandate, we invest opportunistically with a long-term view in a wide range of strategies and asset classes, including public and private equity and credit, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternative assets. Our teams operate with autonomy, while cross-team collaboration strengthens our conviction and empowers us to capitalize on market dislocations.

 

At SFM, we foster an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative. We prioritize development, enabling team members to push beyond their roles, voice bold ideas, and contribute to our long-term success. This culture of continuous growth and constructive debate fuels innovation and drives efficiencies.

 

Our impact is measured by both the returns we generate and the values we uphold, from environmental stewardship to social responsibility. Operating as a unified team across geographies and mandates, we remain committed to our mission, ensuring a meaningful, lasting impact.

 

Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals.

 

 

Job Overview

The Family Office Controllers team is the finance function within SFM that serves the individual needs of various Soros Family clients. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) plays a critical role as a fiduciary advisor, responsible for ensuring the long-term financial health, ethical integrity, and operational excellence of the family’s personal and financial affairs.

As a key strategic leader within the shared family service office, the CFO is charged with establishing and maintaining a robust control environment that protects against risk, ensures transparency, and promotes financial discipline across all aspects of family operations. This includes designing and enforcing best-in-class policies, segregation of duties, and safeguarding protocols across complex financial structures.

The CFO partners closely with the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) to integrate comprehensive financial planning with investment strategies, and counsels family members directly on budgeting, fiduciary responsibility, and prudent financial decision-making. A key component of the role is to mentor and educate the next generation of family members—instilling financial literacy, governance principles, and sustainable fiduciary practices to support multigenerational stewardship.

 

 

             

Major Responsibilities

 

• Strategic & Operational Leadership: Design and implement best practices & policies for a robust control environment to safeguard family assets and enhance the integrity of operations. Develop frameworks for appropriate separation of duties and enforce policies that prevent inappropriate or abusive conduct. Responsible for design, implementation and maintenance of financial systems, including coordination with outside consultants, SFM systems professionals and other departments.

 

• Financial Oversight & Reporting: Oversight of the various family annual budget processes, forecasting change, analysis of spend patterns and reporting to family members deviations in expected spend. In collaboration with the CIO, act as an advisor; establish long-term financial planning, and wealth preservation strategies. Accurate maintenance of in-house monthly books and records and financial reporting of family entities, investment vehicles, trusts, personal balance sheets and High-Net-Worth statements. Partner with estate and tax planners to ensure integrated wealth structuring and estate planning.  

 

• Cash and Liquidity management: Oversee the management of cash flow and liquidity across personal, trust, and business accounts to ensure optimization and fiscal resilience.

 

• Vendor & Relationship Management: Oversee financial relationships (e.g. banking, insurance, other vendors); evaluation of and negotiation w/ vendors (insurance, etc.).

 

• Governance & Compliance: Ensure ethical and regulatory compliance across all financial activities and reporting. Coordination w/ tax on ensuring compliance and structuring of various vehicles including trusts and estates, as well as estate planning and execution.

 

• Payroll Oversight: Oversee accurate payroll processing for household staff and affiliated entities, ensuring compliance and privacy.

 

• Team Leadership & Development Recruit, develop, and retain high caliber/qualified family office accountants. Provide mentoring, oversight, and performance management to Controllers and accounting staff.

 

 

 

What We Value

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and CPA required
• 15+ years of industry experience (family office, private investment firm, public accounting), experience working in a family office or w/ High-Net Worth individuals preferred
• Strategic mindset with a demonstrated ability to architect financial infrastructure, governance frameworks, and scalable processes that align with family objectives.  
• Demonstrated executive presence and discretion in advising high-net-worth-families
• Experience building and leading a high caliber team
• High degree of sensitivity and discretion when dealing with confidential information
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiar with various types of legal entities (corporations, LLCs, partnerships, trusts)
• Technology and process improvement minded, knowledge of Workday a plus

 

 

We anticipate the base salary of this role to be between $250-350k. In addition to a base salary, the successful candidate will also be eligible to receive a discretionary year-end bonus. 

 

 

 

In all respects, candidates need to reflect the following SFM core values:

 

Smart risk-taking   //   Owner’s Mindset   //   Teamwork   //   Humility   //   Integrity