Senior Accountant
Company: Mary's Place Seattle
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
Description:We're Hiring a Senior Accountant If you are a
finance and accounting professional with non-profit passion and
experience, let us start a conversation. We are looking for a
Senior Accountant to support the finance and accounting functions
that are critical to realizing the mission and vision of Mary's
Place. As a key member of the Finance Team, the right candidate
must possess a commitment to Mary's Place's mission, values, and
culture. In collaboration with the technical controller, the Senior
Accountant is responsible for supporting the daily accounting
functions and preparation of month-end reconciliations. The Senior
Accountant ensures accurate accounting and record keeping along
with compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures
(GAAP). The Senior Accountant is expected to assist with audit
compliance and the preparation of audit schedules and financial
statements. The Senior Accountant will report to the technical
controller. The Senior Accountant actively engages in Mary's Place
racial equity work - striving for equitable outcomes and taking
responsibility for creating, maintaining, and affirming communities
for people of color, immigrants, and refugees, trans and
gender-non-conforming people, and other populations who routinely
encounter systemic oppressions. This is a full-time, salaried
exempt position with an annual salary range of $80,000 - $85,000
DOE. The position is hybrid, with an in-office location at our
administrative offices ( "the Hub" ) in South Lake Union. Key
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support all accounts, ledgers, reconciliations, and reporting,
ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory
requirements including but not limited to:
- Ensure that all accounts receivable receipts and accounts
payable and payroll expenditures are reviewed, reconciled, and
posted timely and accurately
- Ensure that all bank, credit card and balance sheets are
reviewed, reconciled and posted timely and accurately.
- Prepare all assigned internal month-end close tasks as well as
initial reconciliations for all designated accounts
- Maintain all necessary supporting documents and schedules
- Maintain internal control and safeguards for receipt of
revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures
- Support the technical controller throughout the annual audit
including supporting audit readiness, preparing and updating
checklist and schedules
- Support the technical controller in engaging the board and
finance committees around issues and trends in financial operating
models and delivery, and compiling board-specific reporting every
other month
- Support the technical controller in overseeing all financial
and grant accounting; ensure that expenditures are consistently
aligned with grant and program budgets throughout the grant/fund
period; collate financial reporting materials for government,
corporate, and foundation grants
- Coordinate with Development and Program team members to support
the accurate reporting and accounting for grants
- Support and train program staff as needed in process and
procedures for ensuring accurate and timely data entry
Requirements: Required Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree and at least
3-5 years of professional accounting experience
- Prior experience in non-profit accounting
- Prior experience in general accounting and financial reporting
procedures in accordance with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles)
- Understanding of payroll reporting, processing payroll taxes,
and employee benefits, including the management of health care and
retirement plans
- Technology savvy with experience selecting and overseeing
software installations and managing relationships with software
vendors; advanced knowledge of accounting and reporting software
Required Skills:
- Compelling communication and influencing skills, a strong work
ethic, impeccable integrity, positive attitude, and strong
commitment to working collaboratively
- Superior critical thinking capabilities and experience
developing and implementing internal control processes
- Expert level Excel skills working with complex workbooks using
formulas, macros, and pivot tables
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 environment including Teams,
SharePoint and Outlook
- Protect the confidentiality of sensitive information by
learning and following all relevant policies and protocols and
using sound judgment in the handling and sharing of that
information
- Highly motivated, resourceful, flexible, and possesses a
positive attitude
- Effective communication and documentation skills
- Exhibits compassion and empathy; works well with people from
all ethnic, social, economic, and sexual orientation
backgrounds
- Attention to detail, interacting with others in-person and
through email, using critical thinking skills to strategize,
develop and implement business plans, create, and edit documents,
listen, and participate verbally at meetings Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those
that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
essential functions of this job.
- Ability to converse with and listen to people in many different
settings
- Ability to use a computer and telephone, as well as other
standard office equipment
- Frequently required to stand, walk, use fingers, hands, and
arms
- Ability to occasionally push, pull, lift, and/or carry supplies
up to 25 pounds
- Work takes place in a social services environment where
extended periods of sitting, working on a computer, walking to
various work areas, going up and down stairs, and standing are
required
- Travel to program sites and meetings outside the site and
around the county are necessary
- Ability to work in an environment where there may be animals
present, including dogs In compliance with the ADA Amendment Act,
should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or
reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please
contact the Human Resources department. Qualified individuals must
perform the essential duties of the position with or without
accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a
modification or adjustment to the job or work environment to meet
the physical requirements of the position. Mary's Place would
attempt to satisfy requests if the accommodation needed is
reasonable and no undue hardship to Mary's Place would result.
Details In addition, Mary's Place offers the following benefits to
full-time staff:
- Medical and dental insurance with the cost for core employee
coverage paid at 100% by the company and competitive family
rates
- Basic Life Insurance of $50,000 at no cost to employee; option
to buy up for additional coverage
- 403(b) plan with a 50% employer match on the first 6% employee
contribution. Eligible to participate upon hire; eligible for the
match after first year of employment.
- Unlimited use ORCA pass for a small deduction per pay
period
- 10 days paid time off (PTO) each calendar year (accrued by pay
period)
- 10 days of sick time each calendar year (accrued by pay
period)
- 10 days of flexible floating holidays each calendar year
(accrued 40 hours on January 1st and 40 hours on July 1st).
Prorated based on date of hire for first year of employment.
- Employee Assistance Program Mary's Place is an Equal
Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workplace and strongly
encourage women, people of color and other underrepresented groups,
LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born
residents, and veterans to apply. We celebrate diversity and are
committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
How to Apply Applications accepted until the position is filled.
Compensation details: 0 Yearly Salary
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Keywords: Mary's Place Seattle, Lacey , Senior Accountant, Accounting, Auditing , Seattle, Washington
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