Accounting Manager
Share
- Vancouver, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage and oversee the month and year-end close processes and ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the financials.
- Develop monthly and year-end work plans to include routine deadlines, seasonal procedures and special projects.
- Audit and review of accounting and payroll data.
- Ensure compliance with proper accounting methods, policies, and principles.
- Hiring, training, and motivating accounting staff members while supervising and delegating department tasks.
- Provide technical assistance to agency staff through interpretation of applicable rules, regulations, and policies that relate to the routine business of the agency.
- Monitoring and analyzing financial accounting data.
- Creating financial reports based on data analysis.
- Oversee the reconciliation of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, In-Kind donations, and accrued payroll liabilities.
- Develop a thorough understanding of agency grants and contracts including knowledge of budgets and expense allowability.
- Review bi-weekly payroll, leave liability, salary accruals, and quarterly taxes.
- Ensuring the correct structure and integrity of HR and benefit data in accounting system.
- Support payroll specialist by responding to technical compensation, and benefit administration questions.
- Periodically review accounting systems and processes for accuracy and efficiency and recommend improvements.
- Confirm responses to grantor and donor requests for verification of expenditures.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
- Knowledge of best practices in accounting operations
- Knowledge of grant and contract requirements (Federal, State, Local, Private).
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and ability to apply these principles.
- Proficient in policy creation, including creating team buy-in.
- Monitoring and analyzing complex financial accounting data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple competing deadlines with tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated skills in interacting successfully with all levels of staff.
- Collecting, evaluating, and interpreting narrative and statistical data.
- Understanding, interpreting and applying laws and regulations including labor laws and payroll taxes/benefits.
- Preparing clear and concise reports, correspondence, and other written records
- Ability to calculate complex expense allocations to ensure appropriate distribution of expenses across grants.
- Ability to monitor work to ensure quality, accuracy, and thoroughness.
- Ability to lead and supervise.
- Ability to communicate clearly in a positive and mentoring manner to staff, assisting them in the application of Share's policies and procedures.
- Requires the ability to perform the job as outlined.
- Training and experience for this position are typically equivalent to a bachelor's degree and two (2) to four (4) years of experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position. (Equivalency 4-6 years of qualifying training and/or experience).
- 2 years of experience working with Federal/State/Local contracts.
- Strong computer literacy including experience working in cloud software, accounting software, and demonstrates strong Excel skills.
- 3 years experience reviewing expenses and accounting entries for compliance with GAAP standard.
- Proven working experience as an Accounting Manager, Accounting Supervisor, or Finance Manager, or similar.
- Experience and ability to work with diverse communities.
- Ability to operate basic functions of the computer and utilize Microsoft Office software.
- Exhibit the ability to work as a collaborative and productive part of a team.