Grant-Focused Nonprofit Accounting Lead

Monadnock Family Services; Harper Acres (NH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Monadnock Family Services is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to bring structure, visibility, and momentum to our accounting operations. You will lead core workflows with a focus on accounts payable, vendor management, and grant-related financial support, collaborating with the finance team to ensure timely close and accurate reporting.

The ideal candidate thrives on building processes, meeting deadlines, training staff, and communicating across programs.

Qualifications

• Strong accounting, accounts payable, and finance operations experience.
• Excellent organization, follow-through, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines and keep others informed.
• Comfort with accounting systems, Excel, electronic records, and financial documentation.
• Sound judgment, confidentiality, professionalism, and strong communication.
• Experience with nonprofit, healthcare, grants, audits, or financial controls helpful.
• Supervisory or workflow coordination experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and organize accounting workflows, with a strong focus on accounts payable and payment processing.
• Monitor invoices, approvals, vendor activity, deadlines, documentation, and recurring financial obligations.
• Support grant-related financial activity, including coding, documentation, reporting support, reimbursement records, and compliance-related financial files.
• Coordinate priorities, workload, coverage, and process consistency across assigned responsibilities.
• Identify discrepancies, missing approvals, duplicate invoices, deadline risks, documentation gaps, and control issues early.
• Partner with fractional finance leadership to ensure timely, accurate information is available to support month-end close, year-end close, audits, and financial reporting.
• Improve processes, tracking tools, checklists, procedures, and workflow visibility.
• Provide guidance, training, and possible supervision to assigned finance or accounting staff.

Skills

Accounting

Accounts payable

Finance operations

Organization

Attention to detail

Deadline management

Communication

Confidentiality

Tools

Excel

Job description

Monadnock Family Services is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to bring structure, visibility, and momentum to our accounting operations. You will lead core workflows with a focus on accounts payable, vendor management, and grant-related financial support, collaborating with the finance team to ensure timely close and accurate reporting.

The ideal candidate thrives on building processes, meeting deadlines, training staff, and communicating across programs.