Staff Accountant

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ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms well being care supply to achieve everybody, so that every particular person has the well being care wanted to thrive.  We develop options that enhance fairness and entry to main well being care.  This contains ensuring merchandise can be found when and the place they’re wanted and first well being care companies are delivered to essentially the most under-reached.  Radical collaboration with governments, the personal sector and different companions strengthen our potential to scale and maintain these options. Our work will increase entry to high quality well being look after greater than 70 million folks in Africa. VillageReach in integrated in Washington State and has places of work in Seattle (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

DESCRIPTION

Abstract

VillageReach is in search of a Workers Accountant to work within the US from the East Coast (ideally from Maryland, WA DC, New York, or Virginia) with main duty for month-to-month, quarterly and year-end accounting, compliance, and consolidation of our Nation Places of work.  This place serves as a technical useful resource to the Finance groups in every nation in addition to the important thing level of consolidation for the worldwide accounting data.   

Description

Accounting Duties Supporting US and International Groups (66%) – Every nation workplace transmits detailed transaction stories to our centralized accounting staff on a month-to-month foundation together with supporting documentation. Beneath the course of the Controller, and in sturdy partnership with the finance groups in every Nation Workplace, the Workers Accountant performs the next duties:

Month-to-month

• Ensures that Nation Workplace transactions meet the requirements of U.S. GAAP-compliant fund accounting.
• Performs month-to-month allocations primarily based on timesheet information and labor utilization by location. 
• Performs Nation Workplace international forex trade throughout month-to-month translation and conversion processes.
• Performs month-to-month consolidation and reconciles particular stability sheet accounts inside the HQ accounting system.
• Communicates continually and clearly to safe and preserve a robust partnership and spirit of collaboration throughout the worldwide finance staff.
• Critiques and processes Concur expense and bank card requests.
• Assists with month finish shut duties.
• Gives backup and assist to different finance employees as wanted.

Quarterly

• Critiques transaction substantiation and performs an inner audit to make sure back-up helps the prices, allocation, and comprises the right sign-offs required.
• Ensures that acceptable supporting paperwork for Nation Places of work are maintained in an organized and auditable method, electronically and in paper type, as acceptable.
• Critiques developments and offers evaluation and enter to key stakeholders to enhance award compliance, simplify insurance policies and procedures, and monitor and mitigate dangers.
• Reconciles mounted property between the Nation Workplace’s subledger and centralized data.

Yearly

• Performs last reconciliations and ensures USD conversion is full.
• Ensures that each one 12 months finish closing entries are communicated to every Nation Workplace and are recorded on their ledgers.
• Help with annual monetary and single audit preparation.

Course of Enchancment (33%)

• Assists with methods enhancements, upgrades, or conversions as wanted.
• Assists in improvement and upkeep of SOPs documenting routine operations and makes suggestions for enhancements and efficiencies to current processes.
• Implements accounting methodology modifications and offers suggestions to tell the general system to extend compliance whereas simplifying.
• Automates information feeds into calculations to lower handbook work and cut back errors.
• Critiques and offers suggestions on Chart of Accounts structure to enhance inner and exterior reporting, with a watch for simplification.

Competencies:

The next competencies mirror what is predicted of all VillageReach staff; together with examples of how one may display every of those competencies in a single’s position.

Private Motivation and Drive: Is self-directed in a single’s method to work, however asks for assist when wanted; holds oneself accountable; undertakes self-development actions; seeks to construct and grasp new abilities; appears to be like for and takes benefit of alternatives inside the group

Collaboration & Efficient Communication: Establishes and maintains efficient relations with coworkers, companions & stakeholders and exterior events; works collaboratively with others to perform organizational and staff targets and aims; works actively to resolve conflicts; expresses concepts and ideas successfully; selects and makes use of acceptable communication strategies and maintains significant communication with digital coworkers and different events to maintain them knowledgeable

Dedication to Variety & Inclusion: Takes private duty for and helps others throughout the group in creating and sustaining a various work atmosphere the place people are welcomed, valued, revered and supported; personally dedicated to attaining cultural competency together with self-awareness of 1’s personal attitudes about tradition and cross-cultural interactions; displays the willingness and skill to have interaction brazenly and respectfully round problems with race, colonialism, identification and tradition; upholds fairness in entry to sharing of knowledge, concepts, and alternatives all through VillageReach

Dedication to Excellence: Produces a excessive output of labor, each by way of high quality and amount; appears to be like for tactics to enhance and promote high quality; displays work to make sure high quality; has a private dedication to the mission of VillageReach

Resolution Orientation & Innovation: Focuses on outcomes and desired outcomes and the right way to greatest obtain them; will get the job completed; sees alternatives for inventive problem-solving whereas staying inside the parameters of excellent apply; sees outdated issues in new methods and has novel approaches to fixing these issues; contributes unique and/or resourceful concepts to their space of duty; is ready to take into account and articulate dangers and penalties of proposed improvements and issue these into decision-making

Necessities:

To carry out this job efficiently, a person should have the ability to carry out every important responsibility satisfactorily. The necessities listed under are consultant of the information, ability and/or potential required. Cheap lodging could also be made to allow people with disabilities to carry out the important features.

Supervisory Obligations:

• This place has no supervisory duties.

Training & Expertise:

• Affiliate’s Diploma in Accounting or associated subject, Bachelor’s Diploma most well-liked.
• 3+ years of accounting expertise, with worldwide bookkeeping most well-liked.
• Technical knowledgeable in U.S. GAAP for nonprofits required.
• Methods Implementation expertise most well-liked.

Different {Qualifications}:

• Adjust to VillageReach’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage which requires full vaccination for in-person work or journey.
• Established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically numerous teams.
• Demonstrated understanding of challenges with working in rural, underserved and low-income context; expertise dwelling in and/or working in a low-income nation a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Workplace Suite (Phrase, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel) and comfy in a fast-paced technical atmosphere.
• Quickbooks On-line abilities most well-liked.
• Sage Intacct expertise most well-liked.
• Intermediate Excel abilities required; superior Excel abilities most well-liked.
• Wonderful oral and written communication abilities required.
• French or Portuguese fluency extremely fascinating.
• Eligibility to work within the USA.
• Setting and Bodily Calls for:
• VillageReach has no personal places of work, staff work in a shared, open atmosphere with process and convention rooms accessible to staff for privateness and conferences. The noise degree within the work atmosphere is normally quiet. As a result of time zone variations between our USA workplace and our Nation Places of work and placement of different international employees, we have now established core collaboration hours between 6am Pacific Time and 18:00 South Africa Time (GMT+1) Monday by Thursday. All employees, no matter location are anticipated to be accessible between these hours. Throughout Daylight Financial savings Time, this permits for 12 hours per week (3 hours/day) of collaboration time and through Normal Time, 8 hours (2 hours/day). We don’t maintain cross-office conferences on Friday.
• This place requires that extended intervals of sitting at a desk and dealing on a pc. Should have the ability to raise as much as 15 kilos at occasions.

Dedication To Variety & Inclusion:

VillageReach is an Equal Employment Alternative Employer dedicated to workforce range. We imagine that numerous, equitably weighted views foster an organizational capability to create novel options that enhance well being in essentially the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, improvements and affect, VillageReach is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a various international workforce.

Utility Info:

That is a direct rent and subsequently resumes can be reviewed on a rolling foundation till crammed. To use, please submit your resume and a canopy letter to our on-line portal: http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/.  In your cowl letter, please deal with (1)Why you have an interest on this place, (2)What’s one purpose you assume you’d be an excellent match for this place and, (3)what’s one energy you’d convey to this place?

Hiring Course of:

The hiring course of will embody the next steps:

• Overview submitted functions
• Conduct 20-30 minute screening interviews for shortlisted candidates
• Conduct abilities and value-based interviews for 3-5 candidates.
• Request that high candidates submit a sensible evaluation (designed to take not more than two hours to finish). Generally the task will happen earlier than the interview.
• Conduct last interview if essential
• Request references 
• Make supply 
• Conduct background examine
• Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted, however candidates who proceed to step 2 can be notified if they don’t seem to be chosen for step 3.

Safeguarding:

VillageReach is dedicated to selling the welfare of kids, younger folks, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We count on everybody working with us to share this dedication by our code of conduct. All presents of employment can be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which can embody prison data. VillageReach participates within the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in keeping with this Scheme, we’ll request data from job candidates’ earlier employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment throughout employment, or incidents underneath investigation when the applicant left employment. By making use of, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of those recruitment procedures.

Compensation & Advantages:

VillageReach has a longtime compensation construction that’s primarily based on the related market and internally clear. The vary for this place is $64,400 to $77,200. We rent folks into the established vary primarily based on one’s expertise and schooling and contemplating inner fairness. We don’t inquire about wage historical past. Please confer with our compensation overview on our web site for extra data and for extra data on worker advantages.

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