Senior General Ledger Accountant

Description

Job Title: Senior General Ledger Accountant

Reports to: AVP of Finance/Controller

Anticipated Hiring Range: $105,000 - $120,000 Annually 

Classification: Full-time, 40 hours, exempt, benefits eligible  

Schedule: Hybrid 1 day a week in office

The Organization:

Community Partners offers expert guidance, essential services, and a strong dose of passion to help foster, launch, and grow creative solutions to community challenges. For 30 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations and other institutions have worked with Community Partners to create new nonprofit projects, establish coalitions, and manage major philanthropic initiatives to benefit the region. 

Our work includes:

Fiscal Sponsorship

We provide the structure, finance and administrative services, expert counsel in organizational development and connections that help nonprofit leaders succeed. 

Intermediary Services

We help foundations, corporations, government agencies and other institutions achieve greater impact. 

Knowledge Sharing

We offer workshops, reports, speaking engagements, and a range of publications to help strengthen the field. 

Community Partners today works with upwards of 180 fiscally-sponsored projects and 20 initiatives and manages roughly $80 million in revenues annually. Our work spans the fields of civic engagement, arts and culture, education, social justice, health, public policy, social services and youth. To learn more, please visit us at www.CommunityPartners.org.

Summary:

Reporting to the AVP of Finance/Controller, the Senior General Ledger Accountant plays a key role in the month-end close and financial reporting for a fiscal sponsor nonprofit organization with more than $150 million in annual revenue. The position prepares and reviews journal entries, reconciles balance sheet accounts, maintains supporting schedules, and resolves discrepancies to ensure timely and accurate financial statements. The Senior Accountant also supports external audits and Form 990 preparation, assists with grant reconciliations and closeouts, and collaborates across Grants, Financial Services, People & Culture, Fiscal Sponsorship, and Intermediary Programs to improve accounting processes, strengthen internal controls, and promote compliance.

Essential Functions:

• Manage month-end close tasks that may include preparing or reviewing journal entries, and ensure transactions follow GAAP and nonprofit accounting standards.

• Handle assigned tasks to meet deadlines and clearly explain to the AVP/Controller to ensure follow-up and resolution of ongoing issues that prevent meeting deadlines.

• Prepare timely balance sheet reconciliations, including cash, investments, fixed assets, leases, intercompany/due to-due from, and other general ledger accounts; investigate and resolve reconciling items and ensure appropriate supporting documentation.

• Prepare and maintain year-end close support schedules and rollforwards (e.g., fixed assets, leases, prepaid/other accruals) and perform tie-outs to the general ledger to support management reporting, the annual financial statement audit, and Form 990 preparation.

• Support the AVP/Controller with external audit and compliance deliverables, including the annual financial statement audit and Form 990, by preparing requested schedules/workpapers, coordinating timely responses to auditor inquiries, and assisting with implementation of audit recommendations as needed.

• Support grant closeout activities and grant reconciliations by coordinating with financial and grant service administrators, reviewing supporting documentation, reconciling deferred revenue/receivables, and assisting with final financial reporting to funders.

• Provide accounting and reporting support to fiscal sponsorship partners and intermediary program teams as needed, including troubleshooting accounting questions and reviewing journals for appropriate treatment.

• Maintain compliance with GAAP and nonprofit accounting guidance, support consistent revenue recognition and net asset classification, and identify opportunities to strengthen internal controls and accounting processes across projects and programs.

• Conduct other activities as assigned. 

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a business-related field

• Three to five (3–5) years of progressive accounting experience

• Experience with month-end close activities and preparing balance sheet account reconciliations

• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex, high-volume environment

• Ability to consistently meet deadlines, including month-end close and audit deliverables

• Basic familiarity with nonprofit accounting concepts; ability to apply policies consistently and ask questions when guidance is needed

• Demonstrated ability to analyze activity, identify discrepancies, and research/resolve reconciling items

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word

•Ability to work collaboratively with program staff and other internal stakeholders

•Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality

Preferred:

• Nonprofit accounting experience, including fund accounting and/or grant accounting

• Experience supporting external audits (financial statement audit and/or Form 990), including preparing schedules and responding to auditor inquiries

• Experience with fiscal sponsorship and/or intermediary program accounting and reporting

• Experience with NetSuite or other ERP accounting software

• CPA or progress toward CPA

Working Conditions:

This is a hybrid position requiring in-office presence at least one (1) day per week, with additional onsite days as needed for meetings, audit support, training, or operational requirements. The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, frequently required to walk and stand. The employee must also use his/her hands to operate and feel office equipment and reach with hands and arms. Employee may occasionally climb, stoop, kneel or bend. Employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with special needs to perform essential job duties.

Compensation and Benefits:  

Salary is commensurate with experience. The organization offers a comprehensive benefits package.
 

EEOP Statement: We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].   

To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, Community Partners will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship would result. 

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled; however, the position may close when an adequate number of qualified applications are received.?
 

A Live Scan (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position.