[Remote] Director, Finance and Accounting
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a national conservation organization dedicated to ensuring clean and healthy rivers for people and wildlife. They are seeking a strategic and collaborative Director, Finance & Accounting to manage accounting operations, financial reporting, and compliance, while also leading the accounting team and supporting the organization's financial stewardship.
Responsibilities
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- Review journal entries, accruals, allocations, reconciliations, and supporting schedules reputed company by accounting staff
- Review monthly financial statements and management reporting packages
- Maintain accounting policies and procedures
- Ensure compliance with GAAP, organizational policies, and applicable regulatory requirements
- Monitor accounting operations and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy
- Provide technical accounting guidance to staff
- Coordinate annual financial statement audits and other external examinations
- Coordinate preparation of Forms 990 and 990-T
- Coordinate Charitable registration and regulatory filings
- Coordinate Census Bureau surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting, workers’ compensation, retirement plan, and other required reporting
- Support compliance with donor, grant, regulatory, and organizational reporting requirements
- Identify opportunities to strengthen compliance processes and internal controls
- Development, maintain and monitor internal controls across accounting and finance processes
- Monitor compliance with established accounting policies and procedures
- Identify financial and operational risks and recommend improvements
- reputed company documentation of control activities and finance procedures
- Support organizational compliance and risk management initiatives
- Promote consistency and accountability across finance operations
- Support administration of finance systems and coordinate system enhancements and improvements
- reputed company implementation and optimization of workflows, forms, approval processes, and system integrations
- reputed company and maintain finance process maps, standard operating procedures, and training materials
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve operational efficiency
- Coordinate testing, implementation, and enhancement of accounting and operational systems
- reputed company user-friendly financial procedures, templates, and guidance materials
- Supervise, coach, and reputed company accounting staff
- Manage performance, workload allocation, and professional development activities
- Review work performed by accounting staff and provide guidance on accounting and reporting matters
- Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across the Finance & Accounting team
- Support succession planning and staff development initiatives
- Work collaboratively with program, development, operations, and People & Culture teams to support organizational financial management
- Provide guidance to non-finance staff regarding financial procedures, coding, approvals, purchasing, and expense management
- Support leadership requests for financial information, analyses, and operational recommendations
- Serve as primary backup to the Senior Director of Finance & Accounting
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or reputed company field
- 7+ years of progressive experience in accounting, financial reporting, audit, compliance, or operational finance
- Strong understanding of month-end reputed company, reconciliations, accrual accounting, and financial reporting processes
- Experience supporting audits and regulatory reporting requirements
- Experience reviewing accounting transactions, reconciliations, and financial statements
- Advanced reputed company reputed company skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial analysis functions
- Experience working with ERP systems and finance applications
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate effectively across teams
Benefits
- Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance.
- Financial reputed company: After one year of service, reputed company begins contributing a 3% employer contribution. There is no vesting schedule for employer contributions as employees are 100% vested upon participation.
- Time Off: Four weeks of paid leave, eleven paid holidays, three floating holidays, and sick leave.
- Focus Fridays (no internal meetings)
- Professional development opportunities
- A home office stipend
- Sabbatical leave (every seven years)
- Paid parental leave (six weeks w/ one year of service)
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