Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is responsible for overseeing general ledger activities and managing the month-end close process to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. The position supports financial statement preparation, variance analysis, and budgeting efforts while ensuring all accounts are properly reconciled and supported.

Working closely with the Controller, this role helps improve reporting, strengthen internal controls, and enhance accounting processes. Additional responsibilities include reviewing staff work, supporting audits, maintaining the chart of accounts, and assisting with day-to-day accounting operations.

The organization is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening children and families through a comprehensive continuum of care, including counseling, family preservation, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment. The organization is committed to creating brighter futures through prevention, intervention, and lifelong support.

The mission statement is to help children and empower families by providing safety, advocacy, and support. The vision is a safe, nurturing home for every child, a supportive community for every family.

The values of the organization include exceptional service, equity, diversity, and inclusion; excellence, integrity, creativity, and passion.

The culture commitments are nonviolence, emotional intelligence, democracy, open communication, social responsibility, growth and change, cultural humility, trauma-responsive practices, identity safety, and anti-racism.

Essential responsibilities include month-end close and general ledger oversight, financial reporting and analysis, process improvement and systems optimization, and other duties.

Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree in accounting or a similar field, 3-5 years of accounting experience, proficiency in accounting systems/ERP platforms and advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail, and an understanding and sensitivity to the client's socioeconomic characteristics with personal qualities of warmth with the ability to establish meaningful relationships with people from various cultures.

Core competencies include problem solving, decision making, technical skills, working under pressure, planning and organizing, detail orientation, reliability, communication, adaptability, and cultural responsiveness.

Physical/environmental requirements include mobility and movement, lifting & physical handling, technology & documentation, communication, environmental conditions, work hours & scheduling flexibility, and confidentiality & professional boundaries.