What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Ashoka?
The Opportunity
Ashoka’s Finance Team plays an integral role in maintaining a strong financial infrastructure across more than 30 country offices. The Senior Accountant will support the Assistant Controller with core accounting operations, NetSuite transactions, month-end close, audit preparation, reconciliations, and reporting. This role strengthens Ashoka’s financial accuracy, controls, and compliance. This is a great opportunity to support the operational infrastructure of an organization with the ultimate goal of an Everyone a Changemaker world.
This role will be based in either Arlington, VA or Bangalore, India.
What You'll Do
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.
Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.
Ashoka’s Finance Team plays an integral role in maintaining a strong financial infrastructure across more than 30 country offices. The Senior Accountant will support the Assistant Controller with core accounting operations, NetSuite transactions, month-end close, audit preparation, reconciliations, and reporting. This role strengthens Ashoka’s financial accuracy, controls, and compliance. This is a great opportunity to support the operational infrastructure of an organization with the ultimate goal of an Everyone a Changemaker world.
This role will be based in either Arlington, VA or Bangalore, India.
What You'll Do
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes
- Prepare and reconcile general ledger accounts (cash, AP, AR, accruals, intercompany, restricted funds)
- Post journal entries and maintain proper documentation
- Maintain AP/AR and banking activity
- Use NetSuite for daily accounting, reconciliations, and reporting
- Support improvements to NetSuite workflows and internal controls
- Assist with audit preparation, schedules, and documentation
- Generate monthly and quarterly reports and support variance analysis
- Contribute to process improvement and operational efficiency
- Assist the Assistant Controller with special projects as assigned
- Minimum 7 years of accounting experience
- Experience with NetSuite
- Experience with nonprofit and grant accounting
- Experience with multi-entity and international/intercompany transactions
- Experience preparing audit schedules or supporting audits
- Strong GAAP knowledge, analytical skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively across cultures and time zones
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA strongly preferred
- Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
- Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
- Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
- Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
- Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.
Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.