Controller

About the role

At Springs Rescue Mission, every dollar entrusted to us helps transform lives through the love of Christ. As our Controller, you'll play a vital role in honoring our donors' trust by ensuring financial integrity, accountability, and wise stewardship of the resources that advance our mission. We're seeking a mission-driven accounting leader who values excellence, transparency, and service. This is a hands-on, operational leadership role actively engaged in the accounting system, closing the books on a consistent schedule, reconciling accounts, and resolving discrepancies.

The Controller supervises the Staff Accountant and the Staff Bookkeeper and works directly with the CEO and leadership team. This role also connects with gift processing and Advancement to ensure revenue capture is complete and donor intent is honored. The Controller sits on SRM's leadership team and serves as a financial partner to program directors, helping them understand their budgets and develop financial fluency to steward their resources well.

Responsibilities

• Monthly Close & Financial Reporting
  • Manage the monthly close process on a consistent, published schedule, with GL close completed by the 10th of every month
  • Perform and review general ledger reconciliations, subsidiary ledger accuracy, and trial balance sign-off
  • Maintain the chart of accounts and coding integrity
  • Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for the CEO, leadership team, and Finance Committee
  • Maintain close workpapers and documentation to support year-round audit readiness
• Restricted Fund & Grant Accounting
  • Manage full-cycle restricted fund accounting across a diverse portfolio of institutional and individual funders, each with distinct reporting and compliance requirements
  • Track donor-designated and grant-restricted gifts; maintain fund balance integrity
  • Prepare timely and accurate funder compliance reports
  • Coordinate with program staff on Employment First and other complex grant compliance requirements
  • Partner with Advancement on funder reporting and stewardship
• Greenway Flats – Permanent Supportive Housing
  • Manage full-cycle accounting for SRM's permanent supportive housing property
  • Coordinate tenant accounting activities with the Staff Bookkeeper
  • Oversee tenant accounts receivable, rent posting, and reconciliation to tenant ledgers
  • Coordinate compliance reporting with SRM's external compliance partner; ensure all required reporting to funding and regulatory partners is timely and audit-ready
  • Maintain lease accounting documentation and property files
  • Oversee data integration between the Greenway system and Sage Intacct
  • Prepare monthly Greenway P&L reporting
• Cash Management & Forecasting
  • Perform weekly bank and credit card reconciliations
  • Prepare weekly cash position reports for the CEO: cash on hand, outstanding AP, expected inflow, rolling 13-week forecast
  • Verify debt payments and track loan obligations
  • Communicate cash risks to the CEO promptly
• Financial Partnership & Leadership Development
  • Partner with program directors on budget understanding and variance analysis; help leaders develop financial fluency to steward their departments well
  • Translate accounting data into actionable information that supports informed resource decisions and stewardship across the organization
• Annual Audit
  • Serve as the primary organizational owner of the annual financial audit
  • Manage the auditor relationship, PBC list, workpaper preparation, and findings resolution
  • Maintain audit-ready records throughout the year
  • Coordinate with the external tax partner on Form 990 preparation
  • Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filing requirements
• Team Leadership & Systems
  • Supervise, coach, and develop the Staff Accountant and the Staff Bookkeeper
  • Establish and enforce accounting standards, controls, and expectations
  • Administer Sage Intacct; oversee Bill.com approval workflows
  • Develop and maintain written accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls
  • Coordinate ongoing partnerships with external accounting consultants
• Attend all required meetings and review SRM emails regularly
• Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 3 years in a controller, assistant controller, or senior accounting leadership role
• Nonprofit fund accounting experience
• Multi-entity accounting experience
• Direct experience owning an annual audit, including auditor relationship management, PBC list ownership, and findings resolution
• Hands-on general ledger, reconciliation, and month-end close experience
• Supervisory experience
• Working proficiency in Sage Intacct or a comparable mid-market ERP system

Qualifications

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and is a constant witness; faithfully upholds and aligns with SRM’s Statement of Faith
• Christ-centered and compassionate attitude in dealing with people including the homeless
• Strong technical accounting skills with disciplined attention to detail
• Effective supervisor and coach; develops team capability over time
• Clear communicator with both financial and non-financial audiences
• Curious about the organization's revenue sources; collaborative posture with Advancement, program leadership, and external partners
• Personal integrity and a commitment to financial stewardship as an expression of mission
• Demonstrated understanding of financial stewardship within a faith-based or mission-driven organization
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple funding streams and reporting requirements
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and accounting, payroll, donation, grant management, or related financial systems
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment, and demonstrate integrity in handling sensitive financial and donor information

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA license
• Experience with regulated or affordable housing accounting
• Experience partnering with a development or advancement function
• Experience leading finance functions through periods of rebuild or system implementation

Working Conditions

• Typical office working environment; this is not a remote or hybrid role
• Occasionally (1%-33%): must be able to lift up to 20 pounds, bend or stretch, scheduling flexibility around month-end close and audit periods
• Frequently (34%-66%): walking, talking, climbing stairs, manual dexterity
• Continuously (67%-100%): sitting, standing, adequate vision and hearing, good mental condition to withstand consistently medium to high levels of stress

Equipment/Tools Used: Computer/Internet, Fax/Copier, Accounting System(s), Phone

Benefits

• Full benefits package including:
  • Medical benefits with SRM paying 80% of the medical premium
  • Voluntary Dental and Vision
  • Allstate Accident Plan
  • SRM-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
  • Life Insurance and AD&D
  • 8 paid holidays
  • 21 days of accruable PTO
  • Pay-on-Demand
  • 403b retirement plan with SRM-match after one (1) year, 100% vested beginning date of hire
• Benefits begin on the 1st of the following month after completing a full 30 days of employment
• Benefits are subject to change based on reevaluation or benefit plan changes annually

Pay

$90,000 - $120,000 (Exempt position)