Remote Senior Manager

Summary

Join GiveDirectly, a leading nonprofit 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

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 payment and procurement protocols, including ensuring proper documentation (both hard and soft copies) and adherence to controls
• Ensure that statutory payments have been submitted to the statutory authorities on time and all original receipts filed, with periodic spot checks
• Be accountable for the implementation of the Finance and Accounting Service Level Agreement (SLA) by understanding and anticipating the needs of the non-accounting functions; and proactively liaising with treasury, payments, and finance business partner functions for smooth delivery of the 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

Benefits

At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package (base compensation + bonus) falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles, at similar organizations