Accounting Manager – Income & Yield Forecasting (PAY Group)

About this role

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking.  We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

Position Description We are seeking an experienced Accounting Manager – Income & Yield Forecasting to join PIMCO's Accounting and Yield Services (PAY) Group.  This team is responsible for operating PIMCO's proprietary income and yield forecasting platform (PAY), which provides forward-looking income forecasting, accounting analysis, and decision-support insights across a broad range of investment products and strategies. PAY is used by the Executive Office, Portfolio Managers, Product Strategists, Fund Management, and other senior stakeholders to evaluate expected income, yield, distributions, and related outcomes, helping to inform portfolio positioning, distribution planning, risk assessment, and strategic business decisions.

This is a highly visible and hands-on role at the intersection of investments, accounting, forecasting, and analytics. The successful candidate will lead a team of forecasting professionals while providing oversight of outsourced service providers supporting the function. In addition to team leadership responsibilities, this individual will serve as a subject matter expert on income and yield forecasting, providing analyses and insights to Portfolio Managers, Product Strategists, Executive Leadership, Boards, and other senior stakeholders. Success in the role requires a broad understanding of investment strategies and a deep appreciation of how portfolio positioning, security selection, market conditions, accounting outcomes, and business decisions influence forecast assumptions and results. The ideal candidate is willing to roll up their sleeves and actively engage in the work, diving into complex data, investigating anomalies, challenging assumptions, and understanding the underlying drivers behind forecast results.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical accounting and investment expertise with analytical rigor, intellectual curiosity, and sound judgment. This role is as much about investigative problem-solving and decision support as it is about forecasting. We are seeking someone who enjoys research, gets to the root cause of issues, and translates complex findings into clear, actionable insights that help stakeholders make better decisions. The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and credibly to sophisticated audiences is critical.

This is an opportunity to help lead and scale a critical forecasting capability that supports some of the firm's most important investment and business decisions. The Accounting Manager will play an important role in the continued evolution of PIMCO's proprietary forecasting platform and related business processes, requiring close collaboration with technology teams, data providers, and business partners. This role offers the opportunity to develop deep expertise across a broad range of investment products and strategies, lead a high-impact team, help shape a critical forecasting function, and directly influence investment and business decisions across the firm.

NOTE: For recruitment purposes, this role may be referenced externally as Accounting Manager – Income & Yield Forecasting (PAY Group). Internally, the role is aligned to the PAY Manager job profile.

Location New York, NY, Austin, TX or Newport Beach, CA

Responsibilities Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Manage the oversight and administration of PIMCO's proprietary income and yield forecasting platform (PAY), with a primary focus on yield-sensitive investment strategies, including Income, High Yield, Money Market, and Short-Term products. • Lead a team responsible for producing, reviewing, and delivering income, yield, expense, and distribution forecasts used by Portfolio Managers, Product Strategists, Executive Leadership, Boards, and other key stakeholders. • Serve as a senior reviewer and subject matter expert for forecast outputs, validating assumptions, investigating variances, and ensuring forecasts are accurate, supportable, and decision-ready. • Analyze forecast drivers at the fund, sector, asset class, and security levels to identify risks, opportunities, trends, and implications for investment and business decisions; investigate anomalies and forecast-versus-actual variances to improve forecast accuracy and reliability. • Assess the impact of investment activity, portfolio positioning, market events, distribution targets, accounting outcomes, and other business initiatives on future income and yield expectations. • Partner with investment professionals, business leaders, and other stakeholders to provide forecasting analyses, insights, and recommendations that inform investment and business decisions. • Research and communicate the accounting implications of investment activity, new instruments, trading strategies, portfolio changes, and other business initiatives. • Drive enhancements to forecasting methodologies, data quality, analytical frameworks, business processes, reporting capabilities, and supporting technology platforms. • Utilize data analysis tools to extract, validat

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