Accounting Manager
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We need to parse posting.
Key info:
- Employment Type: Full Time/Exempt
- Wage: $70,000 – $85,000 base pay
- Department: Finance
- Reports To: Finance Director
- Position Location: California – Oakland, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento
- Work Schedule: Four Day Work Week: Two (2) days in office, two (2) days remote. However, there may be certain circumstances, like pressing deadlines or peak business periods, where it becomes necessary for the organization to temporarily switch to a five day work week.
- We're hiring for only one person for the Accounting Manager role. This posting is one of four listings for the same Accounting Manager opening — one for each of our CA offices (Oakland, Sacramento, LA, Riverside), and the role can be based at whichever office works best for the selected candidate.
- WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW: paragraph.
- What Makes This Role Distinctive: bullet points? It lists: Four-day work week for most of the year, with five day weeks during peak periods; Direct ownership of the monthly close, grant tracking, and cost allocation across two entities and four California offices; Close partnership with the Finance Director and department leads across the organization, translating financial information for non finance colleagues; Comprehensive benefits package, including health, vision and dental coverage, 401(k) with employer match, 12 days PTO, 12 holidays, a year end office closure between Christmas and New Year, and additional benefits that support employee wellbeing and work life balance.
- Position Summary: paragraph.
- KEY PRIORITIES: list of duties (bulleted). Need to capture each bullet.
- What We Need From You: list of requirements/qualifications.
- Additional Strengths We Welcome: list.
- What Else You Should Know: EEO boilerplate (should be removed). Also mention commitment to diversity etc. That is boilerplate; remove.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need sections: About the role (maybe combine WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW + What Makes This Role Distinctive + Position Summary?). But we need to follow instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings.
- About the role: could include WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW, What Makes This Role Distinctive, Position Summary. Probably combine into prose.
- Responsibilities: KEY PRIORITIES list.
- Requirements: What We Need From You (solid nonprofit accounting experience, Bachelor's degree, etc.)
- Qualifications: maybe overlapping with Requirements? Could treat Requirements as "What We Need From You" and Qualifications as "Additional Strengths We Welcome"? But instruction says use both headings if content exists. We have both: "What We Need From You" (requirements) and "Additional Strengths We Welcome" (preferred qualifications). So we can map Requirements to "What We Need From You", Qualifications to "Additional Strengths We Welcome".
- Skills: maybe we can extract skill items: Strong QuickBooks Online skills, fluency in Excel, communication, organized, etc. But those are already in Requirements. Could create Skills section summarizing skill-based items: QuickBooks Online, Excel, communication, organization, etc. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we need to preserve ALL substantive information. If we create Skills section, we need to ensure we don't lose any info; we could move some bullet points there but must keep them somewhere. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine skill items into Requirements or Qualifications. But we have to use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for Skills (e.g., "Strong QuickBooks Online skills (or a comparable system you learned quickly) and real fluency in Excel", "You explain things well.", "You are organized and you follow through."). So we could create a Skills section with those items.
- Benefits: from What Makes This Role Distinctive: Comprehensive benefits package, including health, vision and dental coverage, 401(k) with employer match, 12 days PTO, 12 holidays, a year end office closure between Christmas and New Year, and additional benefits that support employee wellbeing and work life balance.
- Pay: Wage: $70,000 – $85,000 base pay.
- Schedule: Work Schedule: Four Day Work Week: Two (2) days in office, two (2) days remote. However, there may be certain circumstances, like pressing deadlines or peak business periods, where it becomes necessary for the organization to temporarily switch to a five day work week.
Also location info maybe could be included in About the role or as a paragraph.
We must not include boilerplate EEO etc.
We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's structure:
About the role
... combine WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW, What Makes This Role Distinctive (except benefits?), Position Summary, location, employment type, reports to, department.
But we need to avoid duplication. Let's extract prose:
WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW:
"California's environmental movement runs on the strength of the organizations behind it, and that strength starts with a finance operation people can trust. The Accounting Manager keeps us on that solid ground, owning the monthly close, managing our grant tracking, and giving program leads the numbers they need to make good decisions as our work scales up. If you want ownership over a real finance function and a mission that matters, we want to hear from you."
What Makes This Role Distinctive (excluding benefits bullet):
- Four-day work week for most of the year, with five day weeks during peak periods
- Direct ownership of the monthly close, grant tracking, and cost allocation across two entities and four California offices
- Close partnership with the Finance Director and department leads across the organization, translating financial information for non finance colleagues
- Comprehensive benefits package... (we will move to Benefits)
Position Summary:
"As a member of the Finance Team, the Accounting Manager keeps EnviroVoters' finances accurate, timely, and transparent. This hands-on role owns the monthly close, grant tracking and reporting, and oversees the outsourced bookkeeping and payroll partners who support us today. The Accounting Manager works closely with the Finance Director and partners with department leads across our four offices, making sure the people running our programs have the numbers they need to make good decisions."
Employment Type: Full Time/Exempt
Department: Finance
Reports To: Finance Director
Position Location: California – Oakland, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento
Note about hiring one person, four listings.
We can include location and employment details in About the role paragraph.
Now Responsibilities: KEY PRIORITIES list.
Let's list each bullet as - .
- Own the monthly close and daily accounting operations
- Own the monthly close, including journal entries, reconciliations, and the close calendar
- Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable, and keep invoices moving out and getting paid on time
- Oversee our outsourced bookkeeper's day to day work and serve as their primary point of contact
- Maintain accurate expense coding and documentation across all four offices
- Keep our accounting policies and procedure documentation current
- Support the transition of bookkeeping from outsourced to in house, and supervise the staff accountant once that role is filled
- Answer staff questions about expense reimbursement, escalating as needed
- Support year end filings, including 1099 forms
- Track and report on grants
- Set up new grants in our accounting system with budgets, restrictions, and reporting deadlines
- Track spending against grant budgets and flag variances to the Finance Director and program leads early
- Manage restricted revenue recognition and release from restriction
- Allocate expenses across grants and entities accurately and consistently
- Prepare financial reports for funders and get them out on deadline
- Run overhead allocation analyses to support new grant proposals
- Support c3/c4 compliance and allocation
- Maintain the cost allocation between our 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4), including shared services and staff time
- Support timekeeping and allocation practices that hold up to review
- Partner with the Finance Director, outside counsel, and reporting consultants on lobbying, electoral, and political action committee (PAC) compliance
- Help ensure PAC deposits, reimbursements, and reporting are handled accurately
- Partner on reporting and budgeting
- Produce monthly budget to actual reports for departments, projects, and grants, and walk department leads through them
- Support the annual budget process and monthly forecasting
- Support the annual audit and Form 990 preparation
- Provide backup coverage for routine Finance Director responsibilities during planned absences
Note some duplicates: first two bullets similar; we keep as is.
Now Requirements: What We Need From You list.
Let's extract each bullet/sentence:
- Solid nonprofit accounting experience: roughly four or more years in accounting or finance, with meaningful time in a nonprofit setting. If your experience is in a different sector but you know your way around fund accounting, tell us
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field required
- You can run a close. You have owned or substantially supported a monthly close and know what it takes to get it done accurately and on time
- Comfort with grant accounting: you have tracked restricted funds, prepared reports for funders, and can explain a variance without making it sound like an accusation
- Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and how it applies to nonprofit financial reporting
- Strong QuickBooks Online skills (or a comparable system you learned quickly) and real fluency in Excel
- You explain things well. Much of this job is translating financial information for people who don't work in finance, so clear, patient communication matters more here than it might elsewhere
- You are organized and you follow through. With four offices, multiple grants, and two entities, the details add up, and we need someone who tracks them without being chased
- You care about what we are working on. You don't need an environmental background, but our mission should mean something to you
We could break into list items.
Now Qualifications: Additional Strengths We Welcome list.
- Experience with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) structures, especially cost allocation between them
- Familiarity with PAC accounting and California political reporting requirements
- Experience with Paylocity or a comparable payroll platform
- Experience supervising staff or managing outside contractors
- Experience supporting an audit from the preparer's side
Now Skills: maybe we could extract skill-specific items from Requirements: QuickBooks Online, Excel, communication, organization. But we already have those in Requirements; we could still create Skills section but would duplicate. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to avoid duplication; we can keep skill items within Requirements or Qualifications. Since we already have Requirements and Qualifications sections, we might not need a separate Skills section. However the instruction says use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for Skills (like QuickBooks, Excel, communication, organization). But we already placed them in Requirements. Could we move them to Skills and keep Requirements more about experience/education? Let's think.
We could restructure:
- About the role: narrative.
- Responsibilities: list.
- Requirements: experience and education (nonprofit accounting experience, bachelor's degree).
- Qualifications: skills and competencies (Quick
for prose. We need to parse posting. Key info: - Employment Type: Full Time/Exempt - Wage: $70,000 – $85,000 base pay - Department: Finance - Reports To: Finance Director - Position Location: California – Oakland, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento - Work Schedule: Four Day Work Week: Two (2) days in office, two (2) days remote. However, there may be certain circumstances, like pressing deadlines or peak business periods, where it becomes necessary for the organization to temporarily switch to a five day work week. - We're hiring for only one person for the Accounting Manager role. This posting is one of four listings for the same Accounting Manager opening — one for each of our CA offices (Oakland, Sacramento, LA, Riverside), and the role can be based at whichever office works best for the selected candidate. - WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW: paragraph. - What Makes This Role Distinctive: bullet points? It lists: Four-day work week for most of the year, with five day weeks during peak periods; Direct ownership of the monthly close, grant tracking, and cost allocation across two entities and four California offices; Close partnership with the Finance Director and department leads across the organization, translating financial information for non finance colleagues; Comprehensive benefits package, including health, vision and dental coverage, 401(k) with employer match, 12 days PTO, 12 holidays, a year end office closure between Christmas and New Year, and additional benefits that support employee wellbeing and work life balance. - Position Summary: paragraph. - KEY PRIORITIES: list of duties (bulleted). Need to capture each bullet. - What We Need From You: list of requirements/qualifications. - Additional Strengths We Welcome: list. - What Else You Should Know: EEO boilerplate (should be removed). Also mention commitment to diversity etc. That is boilerplate; remove. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We need sections: About the role (maybe combine WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW + What Makes This Role Distinctive + Position Summary?). But we need to follow instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings. - About the role: could include WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW, What Makes This Role Distinctive, Position Summary. Probably combine into prose. - Responsibilities: KEY PRIORITIES list. - Requirements: What We Need From You (solid nonprofit accounting experience, Bachelor's degree, etc.) - Qualifications: maybe overlapping with Requirements? Could treat Requirements as "What We Need From You" and Qualifications as "Additional Strengths We Welcome"? But instruction says use both headings if content exists. We have both: "What We Need From You" (requirements) and "Additional Strengths We Welcome" (preferred qualifications). So we can map Requirements to "What We Need From You", Qualifications to "Additional Strengths We Welcome". - Skills: maybe we can extract skill items: Strong QuickBooks Online skills, fluency in Excel, communication, organized, etc. But those are already in Requirements. Could create Skills section summarizing skill-based items: QuickBooks Online, Excel, communication, organization, etc. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we need to preserve ALL substantive information. If we create Skills section, we need to ensure we don't lose any info; we could move some bullet points there but must keep them somewhere. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine skill items into Requirements or Qualifications. But we have to use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. We have content for Skills (e.g., "Strong QuickBooks Online skills (or a comparable system you learned quickly) and real fluency in Excel", "You explain things well.", "You are organized and you follow through."). So we could create a Skills section with those items. - Benefits: from What Makes This Role Distinctive: Comprehensive benefits package, including health, vision and dental coverage, 401(k) with employer match, 12 days PTO, 12 holidays, a year end office closure between Christmas and New Year, and additional benefits that support employee wellbeing and work life balance. - Pay: Wage: $70,000 – $85,000 base pay. - Schedule: Work Schedule: Four Day Work Week: Two (2) days in office, two (2) days remote. However, there may be certain circumstances, like pressing deadlines or peak business periods, where it becomes necessary for the organization to temporarily switch to a five day work week. Also location info maybe could be included in About the role or as a paragraph. We must not include boilerplate EEO etc. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's structure:
About the role
... combine WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW, What Makes This Role Distinctive (except benefits?), Position Summary, location, employment type, reports to, department.
But we need to avoid duplication. Let's extract prose: WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW: "California's environmental movement runs on the strength of the organizations behind it, and that strength starts with a finance operation people can trust. The Accounting Manager keeps us on that solid ground, owning the monthly close, managing our grant tracking, and giving program leads the numbers they need to make good decisions as our work scales up. If you want ownership over a real finance function and a mission that matters, we want to hear from you." What Makes This Role Distinctive (excluding benefits bullet): - Four-day work week for most of the year, with five day weeks during peak periods - Direct ownership of the monthly close, grant tracking, and cost allocation across two entities and four California offices - Close partnership with the Finance Director and department leads across the organization, translating financial information for non finance colleagues - Comprehensive benefits package... (we will move to Benefits) Position Summary: "As a member of the Finance Team, the Accounting Manager keeps EnviroVoters' finances accurate, timely, and transparent. This hands-on role owns the monthly close, grant tracking and reporting, and oversees the outsourced bookkeeping and payroll partners who support us today. The Accounting Manager works closely with the Finance Director and partners with department leads across our four offices, making sure the people running our programs have the numbers they need to make good decisions." Employment Type: Full Time/Exempt Department: Finance Reports To: Finance Director Position Location: California – Oakland, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento Note about hiring one person, four listings. We can include location and employment details in About the role paragraph. Now Responsibilities: KEY PRIORITIES list. Let's list each bullet as