Senior Accountant

Position Summary

The Senior Accountant is an integral part of the Finance team. The position is responsible for performing balance sheet, revenue, expense and payroll account reconciliations, authorizing and approving financial transactions, as well as ensuring timely billing and grant reporting. The Senior Accountant assists with year-end audit preparation and contract management.

Essential Functions

• Monitors operating cash and prepares daily Cash Flow reports.
• Reviews and approves journal entries and accounts payable invoices.
• Review staff work as needed, including monthly bank reconciliations for lending and operating accounts.
• Provides support and training, as appropriate, to program and accounting staff.
• Performs advanced troubleshooting with the accounting software and provides related instruction and tutoring to other staff.
• Works with independent auditors to ensure compliance and financial reporting requirements; assists with audit preparation.

Job Requirements

• Requires strong working knowledge of accounting practices, grants management, and fund accounting.
• Requires knowledge of nonprofit reporting practices and requirements.
• Requires ability to: be exact or highly accurate; to meet strict deadlines; to work with others in a group or team; and to work with external customers or the public.
• Requires use of accounting & grants management software, internet, electronic mail, and office productivity software, including spreadsheets and databases.
• Requires sound decision-making practices and the ability to make significant decisions.
• Coordinates with individuals or teams, contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise), repeating the same physical activities or mental activities over and over, and working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and external agencies to maximize performance and achieve departmental goals.
• Ability to make recommendations, identify and resolve problems, and exercise judgment that is consistent with best practice, established standards, and/or applicable law.
• Ability to research, analyze, and report various types of data and information.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work, work with limited supervision, and manage multiple conflicting priorities.

Core Competencies

Technology: Strong digital literacy across computer systems and web-based tools and accounting software applications; quick to adapt to new technologies and guide others.

Customer Service: Delivers professional, responsive service; handles client and stakeholders concerns and opportunities effectively.

Decision Making/Judgment – Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus if needed, and communicates decisions to others.

Dependability – Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, and meets attendance/punctuality requirements.

Integrity/Ethics – Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, maintains confidentiality, supports company values, and conveys good news and bad.

Teamwork: Collaborates to promote team success and maintain a positive and productive working environment.

Position Competencies

Job Knowledge: Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge to perform as expected, has necessary technical skills.

Problem-Solving: Analyzes complex issues, simplifies problems, and implements solutions.

Listening Skills – Listens attentively to others, asks clarifying questions, actively listens, stays open to other viewpoints, and manages distractions and interruptions.

Results Focus – Targets and achieves results, sets challenging goals, prioritizes tasks, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability, sets team standards and responsibilities, provides leadership/motivation.

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and a minimum of five years’ experience in fund accounting and grant management. Requires knowledge of nonprofit reporting practices and requirements and experience with GMS Accounting software and proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Working Conditions

General business hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, though exempt positions will typically require work to be performed outside general business hours. Work is generally performed in an indoor, professional office environment.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or listen and regularly required to use a keyboard for typing. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Eastern Maine Development Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.