Community Partners
Job Title: Senior General Ledger Accountant
Company: Community Partners
Location: Community Partners
Work Type: remote
Job Title: Senior General Ledger Accountant
Reports to: AVP of Finance/Controller
Anticipated Hiring Range: $105,000 – $120,000 Annually
Classification: Full-time, 40 hours, exempt, benefits eligible
Schedule: Hybrid 1 day a week in office
The Organization:
Community Partners offers expert guidance, essential services, and a strong dose of passion to help foster, launch, and grow creative solutions to community challenges. For 30 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations and other institutions have worked with Community Partners to create new nonprofit projects, establish coalitions, and manage major philanthropic initiatives to benefit the region.
Our work includes:
Fiscal Sponsorship
We provide the structure, finance and administrative services, expert counsel in organizational development and connections that help nonprofit leaders succeed.
Intermediary Services
We help foundations, corporations, government agencies and other institutions achieve greater impact.
Knowledge Sharing
We offer workshops, reports, speaking engagements, and a range of publications to help strengthen the field.
Community Partners today works with upwards of 180 fiscally-sponsored projects and 20 initiatives and manages roughly $80 million in revenues annually. Our work spans the fields of civic engagement, arts and culture, education, social justice, health, public policy, social services and youth. To learn more, please visit us at www.CommunityPartners.org.
Summary:
Reporting to the AVP of Finance/Controller, the Senior General Ledger Accountant plays a key role in the month-end close and financial reporting for a fiscal sponsor nonprofit organization with more than $150 million in annual revenue. The position prepares and reviews journal entries, reconciles balance sheet accounts, maintains supporting schedules, and resolves discrepancies to ensure timely and accurate financial statements. The Senior Accountant also supports external audits and Form 990 preparation, assists with grant reconciliations and closeouts, and collaborates across Grants, Financial Services, People & Culture, Fiscal Sponsorship, and Intermediary Programs to improve accounting processes, strengthen internal controls, and promote compliance.
Essential Functions:
• Manage month-end close tasks that may include preparing or reviewing journal entries, and ensure transactions follow GAAP and nonprofit accounting standards.
• Handle assigned tasks to meet deadlines and clearly explain to the AVP/Controller to ensure follow-up and resolution of ongoing issues that prevent meeting deadlines.
• Prepare timely balance sheet reconciliations, including cash, investments, fixed assets, leases, intercompany/due to-due from, and other general ledger accounts; investigate and resolve reconciling items and ensure appropriate supporting documentation.
• Prepare and maintain year-end close support schedules and rollforwards (e.g., fixed assets, leases, prepaid/other accruals) and perform tie-outs to the general ledger to support management reporting, the annual financial statement audit, and Form 990 preparation.
• Support the AVP/Controller with external audit and compliance deliverables, including the annual financial statement audit and Form 990, by preparing requested schedules/workpapers, coordinating timely responses to auditor inquiries, and assisting with implementation of audit recommendations as needed.
• Support grant closeout activities and grant reconciliations by coordinating with financial and grant service administrators, reviewing supporting documentation, reconciling deferred revenue/receivables, and assisting with final financial reporting to funders.
• Provide accounting and reporting support to fiscal sponsorship partners and intermediary program teams as needed, including troubleshooting accounting questions and reviewing journals for appropriate treatment.
• Maintain compliance with GAAP and nonprofit accounting guidance, support consistent revenue recognition and net asset classification, and identify opportunities to strengthen internal controls and accounting processes across projects and programs.
• Conduct other activities as assigned.
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