ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST

Position Summary The Accountant Specialist provides essential support to the Finance Team by ensuring that key accounting functions, such as donation processing, accounts payable, receivables, monthly reporting, and annual audit/990, are running smoothly and in compliance with internal controls and external requirements for YFC/USA. While not directly responsible for executing these processes, the Accountant Specialist ensures consistency, accuracy, and timeliness by coordinating with relevant staff, maintaining documentation standards, and supporting process improvement. This role serves as a key quality control and operational support function within the finance department. Essential Functions Donations Management: Cross‑functional collaboration with staff to ensure donations are loaded accurately and timely, maintaining both accounting standards and development metrics. Manage donor restrictions, pledges, and intentions. Receivable Management: Maintain billing calculations, monthly receivable reports and analysis, and support with YFC Chapters regarding their payments. Accounts Payable: Work with staff to ensure AP processing is timely and accurate. Maintain and ensure the application of sales tax exemptions, and complete annual 1099s. Provide backup processing for the above processes. Financial Reports: Maintain and build financial reporting, including income statements, balance sheets, cash forecasting, and trend analysis. Audit/990: Complete needed reporting and reconciliations for YFC’s annual financial audit and 990. Support the annual budget process with template and budget creation. Collaborate with Chapter Leaders as assigned. Additional Responsibilities: Perform other miscellaneous accounting duties as assigned. Spiritual Responsibilities Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth For Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, it is very important that you as an employee be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel. As an employee, YFC expects all employees to: Seek God’s guidance and wisdom for the organization, participate in prayer, teach and preach the Bible, and model empathy, humility, and care for all people. YFC Cultural Attributes Ability to humbly serve and honor others with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. Demonstrate reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills. Prioritize others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem solving. Trust God with new approaches and changes, communicating needs and limits with emotional intelligence. Seek and foster authentic Christ‑Centered relationships, empowering historically marginalized groups. Fundraising Responsibilities All YFC employees are expected to regularly participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA, including inviting for fund‑raising events, recruiting donors, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts. Budget Responsibilities The Budget Manager aligns all financial resources to the YFC/USA strategic plan, coding, approval, and financial decision-making for their assigned division, department, or action plan budget. When a budget is overfunded or underfunded, course correction occurs through the MCCR process. Position Requirements Knowledge & Skills Strong process acumen. Bookkeeper level or above understanding of accounting. Advanced MS Excel skills. Ability to work in a deadline‑driven environment. Strong emotional intelligence that can approach accounting questions/issues from a ministry perspective. Credentials Required & Preferred Education Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Accounting required. 1+ years of experience. Physical Requirements Ability to communicate orally with customers, vendors, management, chapter leaders, and other co‑workers is crucial. Regular use of the telephone and e‑mail for communication is essential. Sitting for extended periods is common. Hearing and vision within normal ranges is essential for normal conversations, to receive ordinary information, and to prepare or inspect documents. Activities require the ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time, occasionally move about inside the office to access files or office equipment, operate a computer and other office productivity machinery. No heavy lifting is expected, though occasional exertion of up to 10 lbs. of force may be required. Good manual dexterity required for the use of computers, mobile devices, and other productivity technologies. The job is performed indoors in a traditional office setting. Extended periods of sitting and extensive work at a computer and phone are normal. Travel Requirements Occasional Travel to YFC Training/Events. Benefits Our comprehensive benefits package includes: Vacation time, Sick Time, 12 paid holidays, paid week off between Christmas and New Years. Health & Welfare Benefits (Voluntary Enrollment) Medical Dental Vision Supplemental Accident Health And Welfare Benefits (Company Sponsored) YFC Contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA): $800 Single / $1,000 Family Must be enrolled in an eligible plan and amounts are prorated based on hire date. Up to 3% 403(b) match upon hire, up to 5% with tenure. Access to EAP services. Short‑term Disability, Long‑term Disability, and Life/AD&D. EEO Statement Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC’s mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry. We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation. We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization. Seniority level Entry level Employment type Full‑time Job function Accounting/Auditing and Finance Religious Institutions #J-18808-Ljbffr