Staff Accountant

1 week ago

San Francisco, United States San Francisco Foundation Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Staff Accountant

Location: San Francisco, CA  Department: Finance  Type: Full-time, Exempt,  Min. Experience: Intermediate Level

The Semi-monthly (per pay period) compensation for this position in FY24 is: 

$3,956.33 per pay period


Organizational Result:

All people living in the San Francisco Bay Area are economically secure, rooted in vibrant communities and engaged in civic life.

We Value:

Anti-racism, Boldness, Equity, Racial Justice, and being Rooted in Community

The following sections are designed based on the Results Based Leadership for Racial Equity Framework that the Foundation uses to accomplish our work. As a learning organization, we expect staff to incorporate learning into their core work and the tasks related to the functional position. All staff should expect to devote time to learning activities related to our values and skillset development. People managers should expect to spend a significant amount of time coaching, developing and managing people with the balance of the time for all staff spent on relationship building internally and externally and achievement of outcome goals of role and foundation.

Position Summary

The Staff Accountant position is an individual contributor role supporting key functional areas. Provides high level administrative support and/or leads areas of work, including budget processing and project management assistance towards execution of departmental activities. Prepares internal reporting and analysis. Provides support to teams and external stakeholders on content areas.

Boundaries

The Staff Accountant:

  • Provides general accounting support, including preparing journal entries, reconciliations, schedules, and account analysis, and providing support in fulfilling the responsibilities of the Finance Department.
  • Contributes to Foundation-wide projects and will be cross-trained with other staff members to provide back-up when needed.
Authority
  • Staff Accounts prepares, completes, processes, and reconciles financial reports for review by department leadership; assess areas for data integrity improvement, work as part of a team that oversees the fiscal health of the organization.
Role
  • Applies general accounting principles relative to gift processing, invoice and payment processing, and cash management of SFF revenues and expenses and in support of our fiscal responsibilities.
  • Works closely with the Grants Management and Philanthropy and Gift Planning teams to ensure grants and gifts are processed timely and are recorded properly.
  • Prepares journal entry and reconciliation reports.
  • Ensures timely investment of funds received or to transfer funds to cover weekly grants paid out.
  • Collaborates with the Finance team in making recommendations for improving processes and assisting with documenting and updating procedures.

Tasks

  • Daily monitoring of bank, lockbox and brokerage activity and correspondence.
  • Daily processing of all cash receipts received in-house to virtual lockbox, ensure that all
  • receipts have been timely and accurately recorded.
  • Processes weekly accounts payable and grant checks and ACH transactions
  • Processes weekly expense reports in Concur.
  • Weekly rebalancing of cash accounts to ensure timely investment of funds received or to
  • transfer funds to cover weekly grants out.
  • Reconciles gift entries in Salesforce and Financial Edge NXT on monthly basis.
  • Maintains fixed asset records, records depreciation, reconciles accounts, and prepares property tax filings.
  • Prepares monthly and quarterly closing reconciliations and schedules as required.
  • Prepares journal entries as requested in Financial Edge NXT
  • Research questions from staff to provide timely and useful responses.
  • Prepares and assists with annual business, regulatory, and tax filings as needed.
  • Assists with year-end closings, preparation of audit schedules, and providing supporting
  • documentation requested by auditor.

Competencies & Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of transferable position and industry experience
  • Attention to detail and accuracy, ability to plan and organize, effective verbal and written communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative office environment.
  • Experience using ERP systems.
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance with significant accounting course work preferred or equivalent work experience.
  • Proven professional experience in accounting and automated financial and expense reporting systems.
  • Experience within a non-profit or philanthropic organization is a plus.
  • Intermediate to advanced computer/software skills, including Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, & Teams) and Zoom.
  • Ability to learn, navigate and manage online platforms, including Fluxx, Qlik sense, Smartsheet's, Salesforce, Concur, Financial Edge NXT, and Power Plan


We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align exactly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation: The San Francisco Foundation offers a competitive total compensation package including base compensation in alignment with our organizational budget size and rich medical and fringe benefits offerings. This position pays $3,956.33 per pay period. You may read more about our compensation philosophy and benefits on the career page.

Remote Work Policy: The Foundation has adopted a long-term hybrid in-person and remote work policy. Dedicated to its employee health and safety, The Foundation will continue to make decisions in accordance with San Francisco County and California mandates. Employees must reside or plan to relocate within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Requesting Accommodations: The Foundation is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, The Foundation will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr@sff.org.

The San Francisco Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.

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