GiveDirectly is hiring a
Senior Manager

Summary

Join GiveDirectly, a leading non-profit organization providing cash grants directly to people living in extreme poverty. We're seeking a Senior Manager for our Accounting team to lead financial management, accounting, and reporting efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional experience in accounting or finance, with strong experience in data analysis budgeting and reporting
• Professional qualification (ACCA or CPA) is required
• Professionally proficient in English
• Ability to liaise remotely with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility, tact and diplomacy
• Excellent stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills
• Ability to be proactive and logical in problem-solving scenarios
• Strong time management skills with an ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, and obstacles, and an ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work to tight deadlines
• Maintains a calm disposition and positive outlook particularly when working under pressure
• A full appreciation of the value of cooperation, both internationally and within a team environment
• Aptitude to learn quickly new software tools, such as Slack, Intacct, Limelight, and Google Spreadsheets
• Advanced excel skills
• Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the larger Finance team members to maintain, scale and implement financial processes, policies and controls
• Ensure that funds expended are compliant with Donor requirements, national/state regulations and organizational policies
• Create error free periodic reports, such as balance sheets, profit & loss statements, management reports etc
• Oversee the general ledger coding of the Balance Sheet/Revenue/Expense teams in accordance with applicable standards
• Document and update financial policies and procedures in our knowledge management system, Guru
• Prepare ad hoc reconciliations/reports to resolve issues and execute bookkeeping journal entries on a timely basis
• Oversee the preparation of monthly revenue entries and reconciliations
• Manage monthly, quarterly and annual accounting close
• Substantiate financial transactions by auditing documents
• Implement accounting system workflow improvements
• Manage the annual audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements and the Single Audit
• Prepare and provide support for the financial statement audit and the US federal programmatic audits (single audit etc)
• Prepare the consolidated financial statements
• Oversee the preparation and submission of regulatory filings: 1099, form 990, state tax and FBAR filings
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards (i.e. GAAP, FASB), rules, regulations, and systems of internal control
• Implement the Finance and Accounting Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Staff Management: Responsible for the line management and professional development of direct reports, holding regular 1:1 meetings and undertaking quarterly and annual appraisal
• Participate in internal and organization wide meetings and initiatives
• Perform all other duties that may be assigned to you from time to time by the Accounting Director and your stakeholders