POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting directly to the Controller, the Staff Accountant is a member of the administrative team and shares the responsibility for the effective and efficient financial function of the Alliance for Children’s Rights. This is an Exempt full-time paid position.
ABOUT THE ALLIANCE
The Alliance for Children's Rights is a nonprofit organization that provides free, holistic, legal services and advocacy to youth and families impacted by child welfare and juvenile justice systems in Los Angeles County. Our lawyers, advocates, and social workers, together with hundreds of pro bono attorneys and community volunteers, work to ensure young people in foster care and guardianships can overcome barriers to stability and success and access to the education, healthcare, and financial supports they need. Since 1992, we have helped over 170,000 children and young adults. For more information visit: www.allianceforchildrensrights.org.
To advance our mission of stability, equity, and justice for young people across the state, the Alliance also identifies systemic issues and barriers that impact our clients, and advocates for broad solutions and improvements through ground-breaking child welfare policy reform at the state and local levels.
WHAT YOUR IMPACT WILL BE
The Staff Accountant will work under the direct supervision of the Controller and work in close collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer to track and monitor department and grant budgets, administer the accounts receivable and accounts payable functions for the organization, help monitor and ensure contract compliance, manage the credit card reconciliation process and provide support during the audit processes. The Staff Accountant will assist in managing and maintaining accounting ledgers and reporting systems, ensuring accuracy and full compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements.
Additional duties include:
- Assist in maintaining accounting policies, internal controls, and asset safeguards.
- Assist in managing monthly, quarterly, and annual close, communicating, and maintaining deadlines.
- Assist in coordinating the annual financial audit, which includes work paper preparation, liaison with auditors, and understanding of programmatic and economic requirements of government programs.
- Partners with the Controller to improve existing processes and systems.
- Oversee financial aspects of grants, subgrants, and independent contractor agreements, ensuring expenditures align with contract terms and regulatory requirements. Prepare reports and collaborate with teams to resolve issues.
- Administer accounts payable Systems including Bill.com; ACH payments and checks.
- Works with Controller and Chief Financial Officer in preparing general ledger support and backup documentation for annual audits.
- Collaborates with Controller and Office Manager to set up and maintain Fixed Assets.
- Works with Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Development team to create MOUs for subcontractors.
- Work with Controller and Development team to create grant budgets and reporting back to funders.
- Create budget vs actual reports for programs monthly. Analyze, review and reconcile general ledger accounts by program.
- Work with Chief Financial Officer and Controller to create credit card policies; monitor credit card activity; timely reconciliations; entering data into QuickBooks and/or Blackbaud’s the Financial Edge.
- Work with Chief Financial Officer and Controller to assist in creating and maintaining annual budgets by program and for the overall agency.
- Work with Controller to create a system to accurately and efficiently track grants in Financial Edge
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Three to five years of work experience in accounting or finance in a medium size nonprofit organization. Prior work on a legal service organization a plus.
- Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance is highly desirable.
- Advanced proficiency in accounting and reporting software including QuickBooks, The Financial Edge and Raisers Edge, as well as Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
- Experience operating in a fast-paced environment with constant changes and tight deadlines.
- Committed to collaboration, teamwork, and accountability to oneself and others.
- Committed to building positive working business relationships with all agency stakeholders across levels, roles, and functions.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS
- Possesses a detailed understanding of fund accounting concepts and practices.
- Has strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Is extremely detail oriented and ensures accuracy in all aspects of work; has strong customer service orientation.
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively in written and verbal form.
- Demonstrate an openness to feedback and a commitment to learning and improving.
- Embraces change and ambiguity with a positive attitude. Willing to adapt to new situations, challenges, and information. Resilient in handling complex situations and environments.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment while maintaining quality attention to detail.
- Ongoing use of good judgment, tact, and diplomacy in all professional matters.
- High degree of integrity, strong work ethic, and commitment to the efficient and effective use of resources.
- A commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment for all staff members.
This job description is of a general nature and is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties of the position.
COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, this position worked full time from our Los Angeles office. However, since the pandemic, this position is hybrid and includes work from home and work from the office to complete administrative tasks. This position may be asked to return to work in the office at any time and at the employer’s discretion.
Vaccination Requirement
The Alliance is committed to prioritizing and safeguarding the health and wellbeing of our employees, their families, our clients, and members of our community against the COVID-19 coronavirus. In response to COVID-19 and the increased transmissibility with recent variants, and to support a safe environment for everyone, all new Alliance employees must provide original documentation confirming they are fully vaccinated, and or evidence of an approved qualifying medical exemption or religious held belief exemption at the time of hire.
Salary Range
This is an exempt position with a target starting salary range of $68,000 – $72,000 and is set commensurate with experience. Benefits include generous vacation and paid holidays; comprehensive health plans covering 100% of the employee cost of medical, dental, and vision insurance; life insurance; flexible spending accounts for childcare and health expenses; generous retirement savings plan with organization contributions to your 403(b) after one year of employment; and discounts on fitness memberships and entertainment venues.
Applying
Email resume and cover letter to Human Resources at careers@alliancecr.org. Due to a high volume of interest, we are not able to contact each interested applicant. No calls please. If selected for consideration, candidates will be contacted to discuss our recruitment process and next steps.
The Alliance for Children’s Rights is committed to building and supporting a culturally diverse and inclusive environment that values all staff members’ backgrounds and perspectives in our work. We strongly encourage individuals from all traditionally underrepresented communities to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and prohibit discrimination against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other unlawful basis.
The Alliance for Children’s Rights will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if the Alliance is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report. Find out more about the Fair Chance Act by visiting the Civil Right’s Department Fair Chance Act webpage.
