Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Team: Finance

Location: Hybrid in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC) 

Employment Type: Full-time

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Start Date: ASAP

About Braven

Braven is a career-accelerating program that prepares promising young people—many of whom are people of color, from low income backgrounds, and the first in their families to attend college—to secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation. 

We work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for college students followed by support that lasts through graduation.  

Together, we are helping to open up access to the American Promise, empowering a generation of leaders who mirror the diversity of our country.

To learn more, take a look at Braven’s Impact Report and Jobs Report.

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Senior Accountant who will help the organization maintain fiscal responsibility by ensuring exceptional internal controls and tight month-end close processes. This role will own the month-end close and general ledger workstreams, and have an opportunity to create new or improved Finance policies and processes that will help us reach our ambitions.

This role is on the Finance team and reports directly to the Assistant Controller.

What You’ll Do 

General Ledger & Month-End Close Process (70%)

• Manage accounting activities of the organization and ensures compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements
• Perform monthly closing journal entries and support or lead all other monthly, quarterly and year-end close processes
• Support the annual audit, including preparation of year-end closing, prepare balance sheet accounts analysis; prepare and post year-end journal entries
• Review Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll transactions; ensure accurate synchronization of payroll and accounts payable in Intacct, our general ledger system

Ad Hoc Reporting (20%)

• Prepare financial reports for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close, as well as for grant reporting and ad-hoc reporting, in coordination with the External Affairs team and other Finance teammates
• Own the year-end 1099 filing, audit and 990 project management, and annual filings in coordination with our third party preparers, ensuring we have a clean audit and meet filing requirements

• Support all other accounting related functions as needed, and additional duties as assigned

Process Improvements (10%)

• Maintain Braven’s accounting-related systems, including Intacct, Expensify, and bill.com, plus collaborate on system improvements for Salesforce, Martus, and others as needed
• Streamline inefficiencies within the organization; develop systems and processes that minimize the amount of effort required by staff to complete administrative tasks such as timesheets, expense reports and invoice processing, while maintaining airtight internal controls
• Develop, maintain, and train non-finance staff on fiscal policies and procedures 
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
• At least 3 years of experience in Accounting
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting practices and principles and auditing practices and principles

Preferred Qualifications 

• At least 1 year of experience in the non-profit field
• Highly skilled in math, accounting, and financial processes
• Solid understanding of GAAP and applicable regulations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to notice and adapt quickly when conditions change
• Success independently gathering relevant data, information and perspectives to make an informed decision
• Clear ability to manage complex projects by prioritizing the most important work, breaking projects into actionable steps, paying close attention to detail and keeping work organized and up-to-date
• Excellent communication skills, choosing the right avenue and time to convey information
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to be approachable and authentic with others, to understand the perspectives of others, and to build trust and cooperation among peers
• Demonstr