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PE firms heavily recruit from Public for Fund Accounting roles. Should be fairly easy for you to get in especially if you have a CPA. Just start with LinkedIn and things will get going.

I would just say pick your firm wisely in terms of pay and work life balance. There are firms with competitive pay and decent work life balance. And then there are others with slightly better pay but crazy hours. I personally just don’t see a point in working crazy hours in this Space as these aren’t revenue generating roles.

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