Senior Accounting and Budget Manager
- Portland, OR
- Hybrid
- Nonprofit
What you should know: Mulberry is proud to announce our partnership with one of Portland’s most impactful nonprofit organizations, STAND for Children. They are immensely respected education advocacy group celebrating 30 years as a unique catalyst for educational success and social progress, to create a brighter future for us all. The work they do is anchored by their values and those they serve. They are entering a time of exciting change as they seek a Senior Accounting and Budget Manager. The role stands at the intersection of supporting their affiliates and the effort for educational success and social progress as a key member of their Finance team. This is an incredible opportunity to do meaningful work while earning a competitive compensation with a robust benefit offering. They take great pride in their employee engagement programs and merit-based pay system.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as a Finance Team Liaison (FTL)
- Serve as Finance Team Liaison (FTL) to assigned states and/or national program teams, providing a broad range of financial and accounting services and support including monthly variance reporting and assisting in the creation of the annual budget and quarterly forecasts.
- Provide modeling and grant budget support, as requested.
- Serve as thought partner, from a financial perspective, for assigned teams in efforts to improve efficiencies and become more cost effective.
- Serve as the first point of contact for finance-related questions from assigned State and National Programs.
Serve as the Quarterly Forecasting and Annual Budgeting Project Manager
- Act as the Project Manager, in close coordination with the Controller, to support the quarterly forecast and annual budget processes, including building calendars and communications and providing timely and accurate milestone reports.
- Serve as the super user of Adaptive software to deliver timely templates to support forecasting and budgeting needs.
- Prepare reports on financial performance tailored to the needs of leadership.
Function as the Senior Revenue Accountant in the Monthly Close and Year-End Audit Process and Prepare Tax/Business Filings
- Participate in month end and year end close processes, owning the preparation of the revenue workbook, reviewing FTL-related restricted revenue releases and partnering with the Controller on the national releases.
- Prepare the monthly Net Asset roll forward and complete monthly reconciliations/account analyses of all Receivables and Deferred Revenue accounts.
- Support the invoice creation, from Salesforce, for CHSS and CELLs, partnering with the appropriate FTL.
- Lead revenue recognition functions including, but not limited to, reviewing and analyzing incoming grant/pledge agreements to determine appropriate revenue recognition, assisting with monthly release of national restricted revenue and reviewing Finance Team Liaison’s recommendations for monthly releases, completing monthly revenue analysis and reconciliations between Accounting (NetSuite) and Development (Sales Force), and conducting regular meetings with Gift Processing to ensure expected payments have been received and processed in a timely and providing other revenue analysis and/or reporting as requested.
- Provide support to annual audit process including coordination of all revenue related documentation, including preparation of net asset schedule.
- Create timely and accurate tax filings (non-payroll) including IRS Form 990 and FEC Form 1 filings and create and file all Corporate and Business registrations.
Your areas of knowledge and expertise:
- Passionate commitment to Stand for Children’s mission of educational success and social progress.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting required, CPA, MBA or CMA preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years’ directly relevant professional accounting and analysis experience, in a complex, multi-entity ERP environment.
- Have a passion for continuous improvement and transformation of business processes.
- Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to smoothly and accurately help other Stand team members with any accounting or finance challenges they face.
- Ability to provide respectful and clear communication in person, through email, on the phone or through video conferencing.
- High level of comfort with technology, experience in cloud-based ERP systems. High Proficiency in Adaptive and Excel including complex data analyses; preferred familiarity with PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Outstanding time management, planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently but also enjoy being part of a team.
Compensation and Benefits: Starting salary range of $101,200-$126,500 DOE. Benefits include 20 days PTO, holiday pay including the week between end of year holidays, 401(k) with 6% match, strong employer-paid portion of health benefits increasing with tenure, 4-week sabbatical after 10 years of employment, WellHub gym membership subsidy and more.
Mulberry Talent Partners is dedicated to connecting exceptional talent with exciting opportunities. By applying for this position, you will also be considered for other open positions within our network. If you are already part of our community, we encourage you to reach out directly to one of our recruiters regarding any specific roles that catch your eye!
