Finance Specialist

World Relief; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 31,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Benefits package

Job summary

World Relief in Austin seeks a Finance Specialist to accurately and responsibly handle all financial transactions to ensure financial stability of the Austin office and to assist the resettlement team with client finances. This is a hybrid role—3 days in office, 2 days remote.

This position requires minimum 3 years of accounts payable experience, strong MS Office skills, and meticulous handling of cash and PII data, with a commitment to World Relief’s mission and values.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience with vendor invoices and accounts payable systems.
• Fluent in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience handling cash and PII data.

Responsibilities

• Tabulate and process financial contributions to ensure timely, accurate recording of funds received.
• Deposit cash and checks to local bank account.
• Review check request coding and supporting documents for adequate documentation and authorization.
• Cut checks for all World Relief operations, including refugee assistance checks, staff reimbursement, and bill payments.
• Maintain detailed financial documentation both digital and hard copy, archives accounts payable files and creates new sets of files.
• Reconcile and allocate Corporate credit card transactions.
• Maintain W-9 records for qualifying vendors and assist in issuing 1099s at year-end.
• Assist in fiscal year end activities as needed.
• Assist office coordinator in managing office resources.
• Produce weekly financial expenditure reports for refugee cases and assist resettlement team on request.
• Perform refugee cases maintenance as per resettlement team request. Other related duties as assigned.
• Adhere to segregation-of-duties controls: cash intake dual-counting and independent bank reconciliation.

Skills

MS Office

Excel Proficiency

Verbal Communication

PII Handling

Job description

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war‑torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

POSITION SUMMARY:

World Relief seeks a Finance Specialist to accurately and responsibly handle all financial transactions in order to ensure financial stability of the World Relief Austin office and assist the resettlement team with client finances.

This is a hybrid role- 3 days in office, 2 work from home.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Tabulate and process financial contributions to ensure timely, accurate recording of funds received.
• Deposit cash and checks to local bank account.
• Review check request coding and supporting documents for adequate documentation and authorization.
• Cut checks for all World Relief operations, including refugee assistance checks, staff reimbursement, and bill payments.
• Maintain detailed financial documentation both digital, hard copy and at year-end, archives account payable files and creates new set of files based on World Relief records retention policy.
• Verifying checks to be cashed out as needed. Reconcile and allocate Corporate credit card transactions.
• Maintain W-9 records for qualifying vendors and help at the end of each year with the process of issuing 1099s to the qualifying vendors.
• Assist in fiscal year end activities as needed.
• Assist World Relief office coordinator in managing office resources.
• Assists the resettlement team with client finances by producing weekly financial expenditure reports for refugee cases and at the request of resettlement team.
• Perform refugee cases maintenance as per resettlement team request. Other related duties as assigned.
• Adhere to segregation-of-duties controls: cash received is dual-counted at intake, and bank deposits are independently reconciled to the recorded contributions log by a separate staff member.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Association of Evangelicals' For the Health of The Nation document
• Minimum 3 years of experience working with vendor invoices, check requests, and experience with a computerized accounts payable system.
• Fluent in Microsoft software including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, meet deadlines and organize in a fast paced and fluid environment.
• Experience handling cash and working with Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in finance management preferred.
• Experience in resource and grant management systems preferred

$22.33 - $29.06 an hour

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time employees.

World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.

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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.