Senior Accountant

The Opportunity:
Ashoka’s Finance Team plays an integral role in maintaining a strong financial infrastructure across more than 30 country offices. The Senior Accountant will support the Assistant Controller with core accounting operations, NetSuite transactions, month-end close, audit preparation, reconciliations, and reporting. This role strengthens Ashoka’s financial accuracy, controls, and compliance. This is a great opportunity to support the operational infrastructure of an organization with the ultimate goal of an Everyone a Changemaker world.

What You'll Do:

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes
• Prepare and reconcile general ledger accounts (cash, AP, AR, accruals, intercompany, restricted funds)
• Post journal entries and maintain proper documentation
• Maintain AP/AR and banking activity
• Use NetSuite for daily accounting, reconciliations, and reporting
• Support improvements to NetSuite workflows and internal controls
• Assist with audit preparation, schedules, and documentation
• Generate monthly and quarterly reports and support variance analysis
• Contribute to process improvement and operational efficiency
• Assist the Assistant Controller with special projects as assigned

What You Bring:

• Minimum 7 years of accounting experience
• Experience with NetSuite 
• Experience with nonprofit and grant accounting
• Experience with multi-entity and international/intercompany transactions
• Experience preparing audit schedules or supporting audits
• Strong GAAP knowledge, analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to work collaboratively across cultures and time zones
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA strongly preferred

Core Criteria:

• Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life. 
• Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context. 
• Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second). 
• Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy. 
• Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.

About Ashoka:
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.  Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.