Senior Accountant

Koteff Accounting Group; Anchorage (AK); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Paid holidays

401K with employer match

HRA health insurance

Team experiences

Downtown Anchorage office (hybrid)”

Job summary

Koteff Accounting Group is a remote nonprofit accounting team seeking an experienced accountant to manage month-end close, reporting, and client communications for a diverse nonprofit client portfolio.

You will report to the Nonprofit Accounting Manager, collaborate with bookkeepers, onboard new clients, and deliver virtual CFO services. Occasional after-hours meetings may be required to support audits and client needs.

Qualifications

• Two years of accounting or full-charge bookkeeping experience in nonprofits.
• Experience with grant tracking and nonprofit reporting.
• GAAP knowledge and good understanding of financial statements.
• Experience closing the books and preparing for annual audits.
• CPA license or CPA firm experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee month-end closing and prepare reconciliations for nonprofit clients.
• Prepare and present financial statements to CEOs, Finance Committees, and Boards.
• Communicate with clients and manage relationships to ensure high satisfaction.
• Assist onboarding of new clients and implement new tech tools.
• Review day-to-day bookkeeping by client bookkeepers for accuracy and timeliness.
• Provide virtual CFO services such as budgeting and cash flow projections.

Skills

GAAP

Nonprofit accounting

Client communications

Team collaboration

Adaptability

Attention to detail

QuickBooks proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

CPA license preferred

Tools

QuickBooks Desktop

QuickBooks Online

Excel

Financial reporting tools

Job description

Location: Remote. Employee status: Part-time or Full-time

About us

Koteff Accounting Group is a team of accountants passionate about numbers, our nonprofit community, and socially responsible mission-driven small businesses. We are locally based in Anchorage, Alaska, with a national reach through a fully remote work approach. Love and care for our community and environment are at the core of our operation.

Our mission is to make nonprofits and socially responsible businesses stronger. We provide a full scope of accounting, CFO-level, and advisory services.

We value mutual respect, open communication, efficiency, work automation, and work-life balance. We bring the latest technology to the workplace to modernize accounting departments and simplify life. When we are not at our desks crunching numbers, you can find us trail-blazing, biking, fishing, and just having fun outside. If you share the same values, please keep on reading.

About Your Role

We are looking for an experienced accountant to join our team in nonprofit division.

You will have a pool of nonprofit clients assigned directly to you. You will responsible for the month end closing, reporting, communictions with the clients, and presenting reports to management and the boards. You'll be reporting directly to the Nonprofit Accounting Manager. You'll have a chance to build long-lasting friendships with our team and the people we serve and positively impact their daily lives.

What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like

Oversee, communicate & be responsible for a group of our clients to ensure that they are well-serviced from A-Z and that they are heard, well taken care of their needs, and are highly satisfied with our services

Perform periodic month/quarter/year-end closing, post adjusting journal entries, prepare reconciliations, maintain supporting documents files

Prepare & present financial statements to CEOs, Finance Committees, and Board of Directors as needed for each client.

Assist in onboarding new clients by helping to clean up messy books and implement new tech tools and processes

Review the day-to-day work performed by our bookkeepers or the client's bookkeeper to ensure that everything is on track

Be accountable for the quality and timeliness of all tasks related to a group of clients assigned to you.

Provide our virtual CFO services, such as budgeting, cash flow projections, KPI reports, consolidations and other miscellaneous management reports that our clients may require

Prepare the files for the auditors and facilitate the financial statement audits from start to end (you are a gatekeeper to make sure the audit is done smoothly and timely)

As a small firm, there might be times when you would need to take on some bookkeeping tasks as we are building capacity for new positions.

Be part of the cross-training with other team members.

Occasional evening/weekend attendance at client meetings and events may be requested

Attend team meetings and meetings with team members or external contacts, as required.

• Be an integral part of internal SOPS development (create, update, and refine as needed).

Nurture the open, supportive culture of our team

What You Need to Succeed

Education and Work Experience

You have at least two years of work experience as an accountant/controller or full-charge bookkeeper. A CPA license or experience working for a CPA firm is a plus.

You are knowledgeable and experienced in grant tracking and reporting in the non-profit sector. If you have no non-profit sector experience, you'll need a strong desire to learn the unique things about non-profits. Training is available.

Have strong knowledge of accounting regulations and procedures, including the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

You have experience putting together financial statements, budgets, cash-flow projections, and various financial reports to assist management in making decisions

You have experience in closing the books at year-end, preparing for annual audits, and working with auditors and tax preparers.

You have experience managing a team is a plus.

You have a high level of comfort in QuickBooks desktop, QuickBooks Online, and Excel and are a quick learner of new tech tools

You have an aptitude with technology and are open to implementing new tools

Your Superpowers

You are ambitious, extremely organized, have a systematic approach to problem-solving

You are a team player and is not self-centered; team success is more important than personal.

You are hardworking and self-motivated. You want to learn and aim for improvements. You can work well individually with minimum supervision and work well in a team.

You are interested in productivity and implementing and/or tweaking systems to make things run smoother

You are smart - people smart, knowing how our actions and words affect others; excellent communicator within the team and with the clients.

Have aptitude with technology, open to implementing new tools

You have attention to detail and good analytical skills

You love working in a fast-paced multi-client environment and are excellent at managing and prioritizing many tasks

You believe in delivering awesome customer service, and you have experience in a customer-facing role

Motivated to grow the business with us

Compensation and Benefits

Full-time or part-time

$65,000 - 80,000 DOE

Performance-based annual bonus

Paid 14 holidays per year, we close our virtual office for Christmas through New Year's Day winter holidays.

401K with a 4% employer match

Individual Coverage HRA to cover health insurance costs through MarketPlace

People-centered and mission-driven team

Outdoor team meetings (yes, we do take meetings on trails)

We offer Boardroom co-work membership if you want to take a break from your home office. Located in downtown Anchorage, close to restaurants, art galleries, and other fun places

Ongoing opportunities for training

Opportunities for personal and financial growth as we work on building the business

Annual team out-of-town retreat

Our Values

Integrity and Open Communication: We value transparency and honesty in our communications, relationships, and actions.

Humility and Respect: Everyone is welcome to speak their minds respectfully, and those on the other side receive the feedback openly. Value and celebrate unique and diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives, and treat everyone with humility and respect—the value we (the team's success) over I (personal success).

Accountability: Hold ourselves accountable for the quality and results of our work and for the commitments we make to our clients and team members.

Excellence and Innovation: Listen to clients' needs, search for available tools, and focus on making things better than they are; value continuing personal and professional growth.

Positivity and Optimism: We approach things with an optimistic outlook and in good spirits.

Work and Live with Passion: Live our true selves. Do things that make us happy, proud of, and enthusiastic about and leave us feeling fulfilled at the end of the day.