Howard Kang
CPA
Director
Howard Kang is a director with private equity fund services and leads Baker Tilly’s fund administration practice out of the west coast region. He has more than 20 years of real estate industry experience and has spent eight of those years running a real estate fund administration operation at a global leader in commercial real estate before joining Baker Tilly in 2023. Howard has deep experience in managing fund accounting and investor reporting processes for close-end and open-end discretionary funds as well as assisting clients with nondiscretionary separate accounts for large institutional pension/sovereign investors. His other specialties in fund administration also include REIT compliance, NCREIF and INREV reporting, waterfall and incentive fee calculations, treasury and cash management operation, and implementation of internal control policies and procedures.
- Has launched a fund administration service platform for a global real estate services firm and managed a large scale fund accounting and investor reporting teams across multiple U.S. offices
- Has fully implemented SOC I Type 2 (SSAE18) control environment and establishing quarterly control monitoring for management
- Managed client relationships of both upper and middle market investment fund managers
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and IFRS real estate fund reporting and disclosure requirements. Familiarity with reporting on full operating model and investment company model
- Deep understanding of valuation policy and practice for real estate (i.e., discounted cash flow model)
- Knowledge of NCREIF and INREV reporting standards and real estate industry benchmark submission (i.e., NCREIF and MSCI)
- Prior experiences in working with global investment managers on large scale lift-out of back-office fund accounting personnel and conversion to a full outsourcing model
- Implementation of Yardi Voyager Investment Management module
- Real estate accounting and reporting for all real estate asset classes (i.e., multifamily, commercial, office, industrial, logistics, retail and co-working)
- Full treasury and cash management implementation including controls and procedures
- National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF)
- Information Management Network (IMN)
Location
Orange County, CA
Education
Bachelor of Science in accounting
University of Southern California