Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Castlerock HR & Recruiting is seeking an experienced accountant for Shining Star Consulting, which provides outsourced finance and accounting services to nonprofit organizations. The role involves managing various accounting functions, including AP/AR, reconciliations, and financial reporting, while ensuring compliance with nonprofit accounting practices.
Responsibilities
- Build strong client relationships. Get to know clients and their businesses well. Find and solve problems before they become big issues
- Provide great service. Deliver excellent accounting and operational support to clients. Communicate clearly and deliver on-time, accurate work
- AP/AR. Manage vendor payments and invoicing, ensure accurate coding and proper approvals. Maintain records and reconcile with CRM as needed
- Banking and Reconciliation. Reconcile all bank, investment, and credit card accounts. Prepare deposits. Identify and investigate any irregularities or discrepancies
- Contract and Grant Restrictions. Understand and comply with donor restrictions
- Month-end close. Handle all tasks to close the books each month. This includes cost allocations, revenue recognition, reconciliations, and creating reports that follow nonprofit accounting rules
- Prepare financial reports. Help the Client Engagement Lead create reports, support grant accounting, reconciliations, accruals, prepaid deductions and reconcile payroll data
- Process Improvement. Help identify process improvements, set up and maintain systems and implement automation
Skills
- At least 3 years nonprofit accounting experience, demonstrating solid understanding of nonprofit accounting practices and relevant regulations. (such as prepaid expenses, accruals, deferred revenue, restricted/unrestricted revenue), bookkeeping procedures, and accounting regulations
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in data entry and financial reporting
- Experienced with accounting software such as QuickBooks (preferred) or Xero
- Skilled and adept in Excel or Google Sheets
- Financial Edge experience or equivalent preferred
- Experience working with grants and nonprofit-specific accounting requirements preferred
- Experience with payroll processing preferred
- Northern California location preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance benefits are available for those working at least 20 hours/week.
- 3% IRA contribution
- Paid time off
- FLEXIBILITY. Our employees love the level of flexibility they are given with their work schedule and structure.
- AUTONOMY. Our employees love the opportunities we provide for them to grow and improve their skills with a perfect balance of support and autonomy.
- IMPACT. As a firm that works exclusively with nonprofits, you will be supporting organizations as they work to positively impact their communities
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