ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Children; Monterey Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health + Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Program

Medical, Dental, Life Insurance

Retirement plan with employer match

Parental Leave & Paid time off

Fitness/Wellness Program

Transit + Parking benefits

Professional development funds

Job summary

Children’s Law Center of California is seeking an Accounting Manager to lead a four-person finance team and oversee day-to-day accounting operations in a hybrid role based in Monterey Park.

You will drive month-end close, grant accounting, and tax reporting while ensuring audit-ready documentation and strong internal controls. A Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of accounting experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 2+ years supervising accounting staff.
• Deep knowledge of nonprofit GAAP, fund accounting, and tracking restricted assets.
• Hands-on experience with multi-funder government contracts and grant compliance.
• Direct experience managing annual 1099 filings and California Sales & Use Tax returns.
• Proficiency in Financial Edge NXT and advanced Excel (pivots, lookups, models).
• Commitment to audit-ready verification using primary source documents.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of four accounting professionals with coaching and supervision.
• Act as primary operational backup for staff duties during absences or peak workloads.
• Review government contracts and grant agreements to ensure proper costing and reporting.
• Oversee grant reimbursements, billings, and compliance reporting to funders.
• Manage month-end close with reconciliations, journal entries, and close governance.
• Prepare audit-ready financial statements and variance analysis for leadership.

Skills

Team Leadership

Staff Supervision

GAAP Knowledge

Grant & Contract Management

Tax Reporting

Financial Edge NXT

Advanced Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

Financial Edge NXT

Excel

Job description

Description

POSITION TITLE: ACCOUNTING MANAGER

Department: Finance

Reports to: Controller

Salary: $100,000-$130,000 annually (compensation reflective of qualifications and credentials)

Location / Working Model: Hybrid (3 days per week at Monterey Park Headquarters, or as needed)

Job Snapshot:

CLC is seeking to hire an Accounting Manager to join our growing Finance team. We are a 500+ employee-focused nonprofit organization with an annual budget of over $70 million. Reporting directly to the Controller, the Accounting Manager plays a crucial role in overseeing the day-to-day financial operations of CLC, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency across all accounting processes. This is a hands-on, operational leadership role for an accounting professional who leads by example and maintains active control over subledger and General Ledger integrity. You will supervise a team of four accounting professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and training. Crucially, you must maintain strong technical expertise and serve as the primary operational backup for key accounting functions—stepping in directly to process transactions, prepare reconciliations, or clear operational bottlenecks during staff absences, turnover, or deadline crunch times. The successful candidate will have a strong background in accounting principles, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

Your Impact on the Mission – Excellence in Advocacy

1. Operational Supervision & Primary Staff Backup

• Team Leadership & Supervision: Lead, direct, and supervise a team of four accounting professionals, providing continuous coaching, daily guidance, and performance support.
• Serve as Primary Operational Backup: Maintain complete capability and willingness to act as the direct, hands-on replacement for staff duties during absences, vacancy periods, or peak workload surges – including invoice processing, grant billings, issuing grant/financial reports, and performing reconciliations--to ensure seamless business continuity and meeting tight deadlines.
• Primary Source Verification: Review staff work against primary third-party source documentation (e.g. vendor invoices, contracts) rather than relying solely on secondary user-generated spreadsheets.
• Operational Efficiency & Workflow Improvement: Identify operational bottlenecks, implementing practical process improvements and system enhancements in Financial Edge NXT and Excel to eliminate redundancies, minimize manual corrections, and increase the timeliness and accuracy of month-end closing.
• Comprehensive Tax Compliance & Reporting: Lead all organizational tax reporting, filings, and compliance functions—including primary responsibility for annual 1099 processing (W-9 management, vendor classification, and IRS/vendor filings) and California sales and Use Tax calculations, returns, and remissions—ensuring strict adherence to local, state, and federal tax laws.

2. Government Contracts & Grant Financial Management

• Contract & Grant Setup: Review incoming government contracts (e.g., local, state, and federal funding streams) and grant agreements to establish proper segment codes, allowable cost tracking, billing schedules, and restriction categories.
• Expense Allocation & Budget Monitoring: Oversee the accurate coding and allocation of direct program costs and indirect administrative expenses to government contracts. Monitor spend rates and contract burn rates against approved program budgets.
• Reimbursement & Invoicing: Prepare, substantiate, and submit monthly/quarterly grant reimbursement drawdowns, billings, and compliance reports to government agencies and funders ahead of strict deadlines.
• Dual-Budget Tracking & Variance Analysis: Compile, analyze, and distribute regular financial reports comparing actuals against both the Board-Approved Fiscal Year Budget (based on anticipated contract renewals and fiscal allocations) and individual Grant Agreement Budgets (based on distinct grant award terms). Produce variance analysis for both perspectives to track operational alignment and contract compliance.
• Program/Grant Manager Collaboration & Reporting: Partner directly with Program/Grant Managers to review monthly grant reports, analyze program costs, track fund receipts, and ensure grant funding is allocated accurately according to funder guidelines.
• Audit-Ready Grant Documentation: Maintain comprehensive, audit-ready support for all grant-funded expenditures – including vendor invoices, allocation schedules, and supporting documentation for all billed expenses) to support annual financial audits, government single audits (Uniform Guidance), and funder monitoring reviews.

3. Month-End Close & Financial Reporting

• Enforce Month-end Closing Governance: Manage the month-end close schedule across accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger functions – actively addressing delays, removing roadblocks, and enforcing accountability when staff fall behind to ensure strict adherence to closing deadlines.
• Demonstrate Proof of Proper Close: Produce verifiable, audit-ready evidence that each month is closed properly under US GAAP—including complete, signed-off balance sheet account reconciliations, subledger-to-GL tie-outs, roll-forward schedules, and explicit review documentation.
• Independently Perform System Completeness Checks: Run pre-close system completeness checks in Financial Edge NXT—searching for unposted transaction batches, unassigned project IDs, or incorrect/missing grant codes—and execute all corresponding journal entries and adjustments before locking accounting periods.
• Financial Statement Preparation: Prepare, analyze, and present accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, accompanied by budget vs. actual variance analysis to support executive leadership decision-making.

4. Controls, Cash Flow & Financial Systems

• Perform routine reviews and clean-ups of Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable subledgers to resolve aged open items, unapplied credits, or vendor discrepancies.
• Monitor daily banking activities, manage cash flow planning, and ensure fund availability to support organizational operations.
• Support annual financial audit preparation, ensuring timely completion and addressing any audit findings.

5. Continuous Learning: Staying informed and adapting evolving social dynamics to better engage and support colleagues and team from all backgrounds.

The Assets You Possess/Essential Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with 2+ years supervising accounting staff.
• Fund Accounting & GAAP: Deep knowledge of non-profit GAAP, fund accounting, and tracking restricted assets.
• Grant Compliance: Hands-on experience with multi-funder government contracts, private grants.
• Tax Reporting: Direct experience managing annual 1099 filings and California Sales & Use Tax returns.
• Systems & Excel: Proficiency in Financial Edge NXT (or enterprise ERP) and advanced Excel (pivots, lookups, models).
• Quality Control: Commitment to audit-ready verification using primary source documents (contracts, registers, invoices).
• Deliverable Management: Proven ability to manage deliverable tracking, meet strict closes/deadlines, and lead a team of four.

Perks + Benefits Employees of CLC Enjoy:

• Health + Wellbeing
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company-Sponsored Benefits (Medical, Dental, Life Insurance) *
• Up to 6% employer matched retirement plan*
• Generous Parental Leave + Additional Leave Options*
• Fitness/Wellness Program*
• Health Care & Dependent Day Care FSA *
• Transit + Parking Benefits *

Growth + Development

• Durfee Professional Development funds are available for all employees, in good standing, who have been with CLC for at least two years.

Flexibility + Additional

• Flexible working environment (depending on position requirements)
• Paid vacation/sick/holiday time
• CLC will pay the current year’s mandatory bar dues for all attorneys actively employed on the date bar dues are owed and who have no known plans to end employment with CLC within 30 days of the due date. CLC will also pay bar dues for new admittees who are actively employed on their initial payment due date and have no known plans to end employment with CLC within 30 days of the due date.

* Must meet eligibility requirements upon open enrollment

About CLC

CLC is the largest children's legal services organization in the nation, advocating for tens of thousands of children and youth in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Placer County foster care systems. We are a powerful voice for our clients, fighting in and out of the courtroom for family reunification, permanence, educational opportunity, health and mental health services, self-sufficiency, and overall well-being. We want all of California’s children to have the support they need to succeed. We work to accomplish this goal through direct legal representation for children, multidisciplinary advocacy and support, and public policy.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commitment : All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, individual with disability, medical condition, marital status, ancestry, military status, veteran status, protected veteran status, genetics or any other legally protected group status or non-job related characteristic of an individual as directed by law.

Equal Employment Opportunity—Reasonable Accommodation Assistance: Children’s Law Center of California is committed to maintaining an environment of equal opportunity. If you need a reasonable accommodation to access the information provided by this organization, please contact [e-mail] further assistance regarding job postings.