Senior Accountant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the month-end and year-end closing processes, which include journal entries, reconciliations, financial analyses, and the preparation of supporting schedules.

• Identify and resolve discrepancies while ensuring that all assigned accounts are ready for audit.

• Reconcile grant transactions and journal entries, as well as process invoice payments.

• Ensure grant activities are reconciled between PyanGo and NetSuite.

• Administer the accounting for prepaid expenses, including analyses, amortization entries, and reconciliations.

• Handle donor-restricted investment accounting, encompassing journal entries, analyses, releases, and reconciliations.

• Take ownership of reconciliations for assigned liability and balance sheet accounts.

• Reconcile intercompany balances and transactions between the parent company and its affiliates.

• Develop and maintain saved searches, reports, and validation tools within NetSuite.

• Oversee the reconciliation of corporate credit card transactions and address exceptions.

• Assist with standalone and consolidated/group audits, including preparing PBC checklists, schedules, and responding to auditor requests.

• Provide occasional backup support for AP operations and the daily cash report when needed.

• Facilitate global monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes across affiliates.

• Prepare and sustain consolidated financial reporting in NetSuite, including eliminations, multi-currency translation, and consolidation adjustments.

• Offer interim finance support to affiliate sites facing finance vacancies.

• Assist with IRS Form 990 consolidated/group return schedules.

• Support the preparation of board and donor reporting packages, ad hoc financial analysis, and special projects.

• Conduct data validation and variance analyses across systems and schedules.

• Collaborate effectively with various departments and affiliate finance teams.

• Provide training to affiliates on finance procedures, documentation, and NetSuite/AP automation tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible accounting experience.

• Advanced experience with ERP systems, preferably NetSuite OneWorld/multi-entity consolidation.

• Proficient in Excel, including VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, IF formulas, and pivot tables.

• Capability to independently prepare complex reconciliations, analyses, audit schedules, and reporting packages.

• Experience reconciling corporate credit card programs and managing expense platforms.

• Understanding of nonprofit accounting principles, including net assets with and without donor restrictions.

• Background in grant accounting, including restricted net assets, draw-downs, and funder reporting.

• Experience reconciling grant activities between grant management systems like PyanGo and ERPs such as NetSuite.

• Familiarity with intercompany reconciliations across multiple related entities.

• Experience supporting audits and preparing financial statements.

• Willingness to provide short-term interim support to affiliate sites as needed.

• Ability to travel to New York City once a year in October and attend 1–2 additional team meetings per year in NYC.

• Competence in managing multiple projects and handling competing priorities.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Capacity to work independently, exercise good judgment, take ownership, and appropriately escalate control-related issues.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work, except for required travel.

• Annual in-person traditions held in New York City.

• 1–2 additional team meetings per year in NYC.

• Opportunities for staff development and growth.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and nondiscrimination protections.

• Provision of reasonable accommodations for disabilities or medical conditions.