Description

We are looking for a Staff Accountant to join our team in Los Angeles!

WHO WE ARE

We are the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). Our mission is to advocate for civil rights, provide legal services and education, and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Pacific Americans and to create a more equitable and harmonious society. We serve more than 15,000 individuals and organizations every year, focusing on the most vulnerable members of Asian American and Pacific Islanders communities while also building a strong voice for civil rights and social justice. With our Advancing Justice affiliates in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., we enrich, enhance, and serve our communities all across the country.

WHAT WE BRING

• The special opportunity to join a mission driven team
• Flexible, hybrid work schedules
• Rich medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement options through 403B and match

WHO YOU ARE

You share our mission of advocacy for Asian Pacific Americans. You enjoy the thrill of serving the public interest while championing civil rights and social justice. You take pride in your work enriching lives and communities in Los Angeles and across the country. You are looking for your next role in an organization that supports your career as much as you support the organization and its goals. You are looking for a job where you make a difference, and your impact is directly proportional to your contribution. You are a game changer. You are a leader. You are an advocate.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting preferred
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional accounting experience
• Prior nonprofit accounting experience preferred, but not required
• Strict attention to detail, highly organized and efficient
• Strong numeracy, analytical, and verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of GAAP
• Strong proficiency with QuickBooks Online and Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity with Workday Adaptive preferred

Qualifications

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Staff Accountant's responsibilities include maintaining financial records and reports, performing account reconciliations, assisting with budget and monthly close processes, and maintaining general ledger documentation. Other responsibilities include monitoring, analyzing and maintaining financial transactions for a wide variety of social service programs, tracking revenues and expenditures, and preparing required internal and external financial reports.

AJSOCAL has complex program offerings and diverse funding sources, including state, federal, corporate, and foundation funding. There is a heavy emphasis on reporting, requiring this role to focus narrowly on the finance function.

Your day-to-day responsbilities:

40% General Accounting

• Prepare journal entries, analyses, and account reconciliations, and assist with the monthly close process
• Support the monthly closing process by keeping balance sheet account schedules that support balances in the general ledger
• Prepare monthly budget to actua lvariances and explain variances
• Substantiate general ledger financial transactions by reviewing and verifying supporting documentation
• Reconcile assigned monthly bank statements and investigate and correct any discrepancies between the bank statements and the general ledger
• Support the annual financial audit and any monitoring visits from grant funders

40% Grant Accounting

• Maintain knowledge of all open grants, invoicing dates, and reporting requirementsfor all grants in assigned program units
• Assist in performing grant-related functions, including pre-application budget preparation, budget and expense reporting, invoicing, financial reporting, labor distribution changes, and budget modifications
• Prepare detailed monthly budget to actual variance analyses for assigned grants
• Assist in ensuring that grant opportunities in Salesforce and Workday Adaptive are synchronized so that all pre-award grants in Salesforce are also listed in Adaptive and assigned the correct probability rating
• Continuous monitoring of both Workday Adaptive and QuickBooks to ensure grant transactions are recorded accurately
• On a biweekly or monthly basis, assist in allocating all unallocated non-personnel expenses to grants under the direction of the supervisor
• Monitor grant receivables monthly by meeting with AR Coordinator to ensure timely payment of grant receivables or identify if receivables need to be written off
• Maintain and update Federal SEFA schedule monthly

20% Other Finance/Accounting functions

• Contribute to the development and review of annual operating budgets and unit projections
• Serve as a backupfor other accounting department functions including Payroll, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
• Analyze current procedures and recommend changes to develop and implement best practice accounting procedures
• All other duties as assigned