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Job Title: Nonprofit Senior Accountant

Location: Remote
Employee status: Part-time or Full-time

 

About us

Koteff Accounting Group is a team of accountants passionate about numbers, our nonprofit community, and socially responsible mission-driven small businesses. We are locally based in Anchorage, Alaska, with a national reach through a fully remote work approach.   Love and care for our community and environment are at the core of our operation. 

 

Our mission is to make nonprofits and socially responsible businesses stronger. We provide a full scope of accounting, CFO-level, and advisory services. 

 

We value mutual respect, open communication, efficiency, work automation, and work-life balance. We bring the latest technology to the workplace to modernize accounting departments and simplify life. When we are not at our desks crunching numbers, you can find us trail-blazing, biking, fishing, and just having fun outside. If you share the same values, please keep on reading.

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About Your Role

We are looking for an experienced accountant to join our team in nonprofit division.

 

You will have a pool of nonprofit clients assigned directly to you. You will responsible for the month end closing, reporting, communictions with the clients, and presenting reports to management and the boards.  You'll be reporting directly to the Nonprofit Accounting Manager. You'll have a chance to build long-lasting friendships with our team and the people we serve and positively impact their daily lives.

 

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

  • Oversee, communicate & be responsible for a group of our clients to ensure that they are well-serviced from A-Z and that they are heard, well taken care of their needs, and are highly satisfied with our services

  • Perform periodic month/quarter/year-end closing, post adjusting journal entries, prepare reconciliations, maintain supporting documents files 

  • Prepare & present financial statements to CEOs, Finance Committees, and Board of Directors as needed for each client. 

  • Assist in onboarding new clients by helping to clean up messy books and implement new tech tools and processes 

  • Review the day-to-day work performed by our bookkeepers or the client's bookkeeper to ensure that everything is on track

  • Be accountable for the quality and timeliness of all tasks related to a group of clients assigned to you.

  • Provide our virtual CFO services, such as budgeting, cash flow projections, KPI reports, consolidations and other miscellaneous management reports that our clients may require

  • Prepare the files for the auditors and facilitate the financial statement audits from start to end (you are a gatekeeper to make sure the audit is done smoothly and timely)

  • As a small firm, there might be times when you would need to take on some bookkeeping tasks as we are building capacity for new positions.    

  • Be part of the cross-training with other team members.

  • Occasional evening/weekend attendance at client meetings and events may be requested

  • Attend team meetings and meetings with team members or external contacts, as required.

  • Be an integral part of internal SOPS development (create, update, and refine as needed).

  • Nurture the open, supportive culture of our team

 

What You Need to Succeed

  • Education and Work Experience​

    • You have at least two years of work experience as an accountant/controller or full-charge bookkeeper. A CPA license or experience working for a CPA firm is a plus. 

    • You are knowledgeable and experienced in grant tracking and reporting in the non-profit sector. If you have no non-profit sector experience, you'll need a strong desire to learn the unique things about non-profits. Training is available. 

    • Have strong knowledge of accounting regulations and procedures, including the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

    • You have experience putting together financial statements, budgets, cash-flow projections, and various financial reports to assist management in making decisions

    • You have experience in closing the books at year-end, preparing for annual audits, and working with auditors and tax preparers.

    • You have experience managing a team is a plus.

    • You have a high level of comfort in QuickBooks desktop, QuickBooks Online, and Excel and are a quick learner of new tech tools

    • You have an aptitude with technology and are open to implementing new tools 

 

  • Your Superpowers

    • You are ambitious, extremely organized, have a systematic approach to problem-solving

    • You are a team player and are not self-centered; team success is more important than personal.

    • You are hardworking and self-motivated. You want to learn and aim for improvements. You can work well individually with minimum supervision and work well in a team.

    • You are interested in productivity and implementing and/or tweaking systems to make things run smoother

    • You are smart - people smart, knowing how our actions and words affect others; excellent communicator within the team and with the clients.

    • Have aptitude with technology, open to implementing new tools

    • You have attention to detail and good analytical skills

    • You love working in a fast-paced multi-client environment and are excellent at managing and prioritizing many tasks

    • You believe in delivering awesome customer service, and you have experience in a customer-facing role

    • Motivated to grow the business with us

 

Compensation and Benefits

  • Full-time or part-time

  • $65,000 - 80,000 DOE

  • Performance-based annual bonus

  • 3 weeks PTO

  • Paid 14 holidays per year, we close our virtual office for Christmas through New Year's Day winter holidays. 

  • 401K with a 4% employer match

  • Individual Coverage HRA to cover health insurance costs through MarketPlace

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Benefits & Perks

  • People-centered and mission-driven team

  • Flexible schedule

  • 100% remote work

  • Outdoor team meetings (yes, we do take meetings on trails)

  • We offer Boardroom co-work membership if you want to take a break from your home office. Located in downtown Anchorage, close to restaurants, art galleries, and other fun places  

  • Ongoing opportunities for training

  • Opportunities for personal and financial growth as we work on building the business 

  • Annual team out-of-town retreat

 

Our Values

  • Integrity and Open Communication: We value transparency and honesty in our communications, relationships, and actions.   

  • Humility and Respect: Everyone is welcome to speak their minds respectfully, and those on the other side receive the feedback openly. Value and celebrate unique and diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives, and treat everyone with humility and respect—the value we (the team's success) over I (personal success).  

  • Accountability: Hold ourselves accountable for the quality and results of our work and for the commitments we make to our clients and team members.

  • Excellence and Innovation: Listen to clients' needs, search for available tools, and focus on making things better than they are; value continuing personal and professional growth. 

  • Positivity and Optimism: We approach things with an optimistic outlook and in good spirits.

  • Work and Live with Passion: Live our true selves. Do things that make us happy, proud of, and enthusiastic about and leave us feeling fulfilled at the end of the day.

 

 Our Recruitment Process

 

  1. Submit resume, letter of interest, and references to jobs@koteffgroup.com.

  2. If your resume qualifies, we will invite you to submit a one-way virtual interview that would include a short video recording and written responses

  3. A video interview will be scheduled after the video response is received and reviewed. 

  4. Conduct skill test

  5. Perform reference checks

  6. If we are a great match for each other, we'll be delighted to send you an offer to join our mighty team!

 

This job posting is open until filled. 

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