Nonprofit Accounting Specialist

Cherry Hills Community Church; Highlands Ranch (CO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Cherry Hills Community Church is seeking an Accounting Specialist to support donor contributions, accounts payable, reconciliations, and reporting. You will maintain accurate records and follow internal controls to ensure activity aligns with donor intent and approved practices.

The role serves donors, vendors, ministry staff, and the Finance team, preparing weekly deposits, journal entries, and financial reports while upholding confidentiality and integrity in all financial processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or three to five years of relevant accounting experience.
• Working knowledge of general ledger accounting, including debits and credits, account coding, reconciliations, deposits, and journal entries.
• Experience processing detailed financial transactions with a high degree of accuracy and adherence to established approval procedures and internal controls.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, compare, reconcile, and report financial data.
• Experience maintaining confidential financial, donor, customer, or organizational records.

Responsibilities

• Process and maintain accurate records for all contribution types, including cash, checks, credit cards, stock gifts, and other approved donations.
• Preserve donor intent by recording designated contributions accurately and escalating unclear, inconsistent, or unsupported gift instructions to Finance leadership.
• Verify that contributions, expenses, deposits, credit card activity, and other transactions are assigned to the correct fund, general ledger account, department, ministry, and bank account.
• Process accounts payable requests in accordance with CHCC policies, approval requirements, internal controls, and established accounting procedures.
• Review invoices, expense activity, and credit card transactions for accurate coding, required documentation, and appropriate approval.
• Reconcile contribution, registration, vendor, credit card, deposit, and payment activity to the general ledger and supporting records.
• Prepare and record weekly income deposits, midweek journal entries, monthly close entries, and other assigned accounting transactions.
• Monitor outstanding approvals, receipts, coding, and documentation, and follow up promptly with staff to support timely payment and accurate reporting.
• Coordinate the approval, signing, distribution, and mailing of checks and other authorized payments while maintaining required separation of duties.
• Maintain accurate vendor records and resolve routine vendor payment discrepancies, account questions, and reconciliation issues in coordination with Finance leadership.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, year-end, and requested financial reports, contribution summaries, supporting schedules, and related financial data or analysis.
• Coordinate the timely preparation and distribution of donor acknowledgments, quarterly giving statements, and annual giving statements.
• Respond to donor inquiries regarding contribution records with accuracy, discretion, and appropriate coordination with Finance leadership.
• Prepare audit documentation, assist with external auditor requests, and support staff training and onboarding related to coding, accounts payable, documentation, and financial workflows.

Skills

General ledger accounting

Accounts payable

Donor contributions processing

Journal entries

Excel proficiency

Confidential records handling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting

Tools

Accounting systems

General ledger software

Job description

Cherry Hills Community Church is seeking an Accounting Specialist to support donor contributions, accounts payable, reconciliations, and reporting. You will maintain accurate records and follow internal controls to ensure activity aligns with donor intent and approved practices.

The role serves donors, vendors, ministry staff, and the Finance team, preparing weekly deposits, journal entries, and financial reports while upholding confidentiality and integrity in all financial processes.