Job Type
Full-time
Description
If you are a finance and accounting leader with non-profit passion and experience, let us start a conversation. We are looking for a Technical Controller to lead the finance and accounting functions that are critical to realizing the mission and vision of Mary’s Place. As a key member of the Finance Team, the right candidate must possess a commitment to Mary’s Place’s mission, values, and culture.
In collaboration with the Vice President of Finance, the Technical Controller is responsible for overseeing the daily accounting functions, internal reporting, and month-end close reconciliations. The Technical Controller ensures accurate accounting and record keeping along with compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures (GAAP). The Technical Controller is expected to assist with audit compliance and preparation of audit schedules and financial statements. The Technical Controller will report to the Vice President of Finance.
The Technical Controller actively engages in Mary’s Place racial equity work – striving for equitable outcomes and taking responsibility for creating, maintaining, and affirming communities for people of color, immigrants, and refugees, trans and gender-non-conforming people, and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions.
This is a full-time, exempt position with an annualsalary of $130 – $160K DOE.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Oversee all accounts, ledgers, reconciliations, and reporting ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements including but not limited to:
– Ensure that all accounts receivable receipts and accounts payable and payroll expenditures are reviewed, reconciled, and posted timely and accurately.
– Prepare all assigned internal month-end close tasks as well as secondary reconciliations for all designated accounts
– Maintain all necessary financial documents and schedules.
• Maintain internal control and safeguards for receipt of revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures.
• Coordinate all audit activity including leading audit readiness, preparing, and updating checklist, schedules, financial statements, and year-end adjustments.
• Consistently analyze financial data and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate and provide monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership abreast of financial status.
• Assist leadership in the annual budgeting and planning process; administer and review all financial plans and compare actual results with a view to identifying, explaining, and correcting variances as appropriate.
• Support the Vice President of Finance in engaging the board and finance committees around issues and trends in financial operating models and delivery, and compiling board-specific reporting every other month.
• Support the Vice President of Finance in overseeing all financial and grant accounting; ensure that expenditures are consistently aligned with grant and program budgets throughout the grant/fund period; collate financial reporting materials for government, corporate, and foundation grants.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
• The ideal candidate will have a CPA and/or master’s degree and at least 7 years of experience including in a controller or assistant controller capacity.
• Prior non-profit accounting and grant management including monitoring, reporting and compliance experience.
• Prior experience in general accounting and financial reporting procedures in accordance with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).
• Understanding of payroll reporting, processing payroll taxes, and employee benefits, including the management of health care and retirement plans.
• Technology savvy with experience selecting and overseeing software installations and managing relationships with software vendors; advanced knowledge of accounting and reporting software.
Required Skills:
• Leverage strengths of the current finance team members help clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals.
• Compelling communication and influencing skills, a strong work ethic, impeccable integrity, positive attitude, and strong commitment to working collaboratively.
• Superior critical thinking capabilities and experience developing and implementing internal control processes.
• Protect the confidentiality of sensitive information by learning and following all relevant policies and protocols and using sound judgment in the handling and sharing of that information.
• Highly motivated, resourceful, flexible, and possesses a positive attitude.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Exhibits compassion and empathy; works well with people from all ethnic, social, economic, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
• Attention to detail, interacting with others in-person and through email, using critical thinking skills to strategize, develop and implement business plans, create, and edit documents, listen, and participate verbally at meetings.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Ability to converse with and listen to people in many different settings
• Ability to use a computer and telephone, as well as other standard office equipment
• Frequently required to stand, walk, use fingers, hands, and arms
• Ability to occasionally push, pull, lift, and/or carry supplies up to 25 pounds
• Work takes place in a social services environment where extended periods of sitting, working on a computer, walking to various work areas, going up and down stairs, and standing are required
• Travel to program sites and meetings outside the site and around the county are necessary
• Ability to work in an environment where there may be animals present, including dogs
In compliance with the ADA Amendment Act, should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please contact the Human Resources department.
Qualified individuals must perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment to meet the physical requirements of the position. Mary’s Place would attempt to satisfy requests if the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship to Mary’s Place would result.
Details
In addition, Mary’s Place offers the following benefits to full-time staff:
• Medical and dental insurance with the cost for core employee coverage paid at 100% by the company and competitive family rates
• Basic Life insurance of $50,000 at no cost to employee; option to buy additional coverage
• 403(b) plan with 50% employer match on the first 6% employee contribution. Eligible to participate upon hire; eligible for match after first year of employment
• Unlimited use ORCA pass for a small deduction per pay period
• 15 days (about 2 weeks) paid time off (PTO) each calendar year (front-loaded and pro-rated)
• 10 days (about 1 and a half weeks) of sick time each calendar year (front-loaded and pro-rated)
• 10 days (about 1 and a half weeks) of flexible floating holidays each calendar year (accrued 40 hours (about 1 and a half days) on Jan. 1 and July 1 and pro-rated during first year)
• Employee Assistance Program
Mary’s Place is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
How to Apply
Applications accepted until the position is filled.
www.marysplaceseattle.org
Salary Description
$130 – $160K DOE