Description

If you are a finance and accounting professional with non-profit passion and experience, let us start a conversation. We are looking for a Senior Accountant to support 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 technical controller, the Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting the daily accounting functions and preparation of month-end reconciliations. The Senior Accountant ensures accurate accounting and record keeping along with compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures (GAAP). The Senior Accountant is expected to assist with audit compliance and the preparation of audit schedules and financial statements. The Senior Accountant will report to the technical controller. 

The Senior Accountant 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, salaried exempt position with an annual salary range of $80,000 - $85,000 DOE. The position is hybrid, with an in-office location at our administrative offices ( "the Hub" ) in South Lake Union. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support 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 
• Ensure that all bank, credit card and balance sheets are reviewed, reconciled and posted timely and accurately. 
• Prepare all assigned internal month-end close tasks as well as initial reconciliations for all designated accounts 
• Maintain all necessary supporting documents and schedules 
• Maintain internal control and safeguards for receipt of revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures 
• Support the technical controller throughout the annual audit including supporting audit readiness, preparing and updating checklist and schedules 
• Support the technical controller 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 technical controller 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 
• Coordinate with Development and Program team members to support the accurate reporting and accounting for grants 
• Support and train program staff as needed in process and procedures for ensuring accurate and timely data entry 

Requirements

 Required Qualifications: 

• The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and at least 3-5 years of professional accounting experience 
• Prior experience in non-profit accounting 
• 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: 

• 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 
• Expert level Excel skills working with complex workbooks using formulas, macros, and pivot tables 
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 environment including Teams, SharePoint and Outlook 
• 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 up for additional coverage 
• 403(b) plan with a 50% employer match on the first 6% employee contribution. Eligible to participate upon hire; eligible for the match after first year of employment. 
• Unlimited use ORCA pass for a small deduction per pay period 
• 10 days paid time off (PTO) each calendar year (accrued by pay period) 
• 10 days of sick time each calendar year (accrued by pay period) 
• 10 days of flexible floating holidays each calendar year (accrued 40 hours on January 1st and 40 hours on July 1st). Prorated based on date of hire for first year of employment. 
• Employee Assistance Program 

Mary’s Place is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage women, people of color and other underrepresented groups, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 

How to Apply Applications accepted until the position is filled. www.marysplaceseattle.org