What You’ll Do
- Lead all daily accounting activities, including general ledger oversight, accounts payable and receivable, payroll compliance, fixed assets, and cash management.
- Oversee and execute the monthly close, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
- Manage annual audits and tax filings, serving as the primary liaison with external auditors.
- Oversee grant and fund accounting, ensuring compliance with restrictions and preparing required reports.
- Analyze and reconcile revenue, deferred revenue, and receivables; distribute revenue reports and support internal inquiries.
- Strengthen internal controls and improve financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
- Support treasury functions, investment tracking, and banking relationships alongside the CFO.
- Lead key operational improvement initiatives, including enhancements to the accounting system, expense, travel, and payables platforms.
- Manage, coach, and develop the Finance team to ensure high performance and accountability.
- Support special projects and strategic financial analysis as needed.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
What You Have
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.CPA strongly preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including nonprofit leadership roles.
- Demonstrated expertise in GAAP, nonprofit fund and grant accounting, and federal grant/contract compliance.
- Proven success managing audits, month-end close processes, financial reporting, and tax compliance.
- Experience leading accounting teams responsible for full-cycle GL, AP, AR, and payroll.
- Proficiency in financial systems and tools (e.g., QuickBooks, Salesforce, Excel); familiarity with cash reconciliation platforms like Stripe and MobileCause a plus.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights and guidance.
- Exceptional attention to detail paired with strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining financial matters to non-financial stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to drive process improvements, manage multiple projects, and collaborate across teams.
- High integrity, sound judgment, and a solutions-oriented mindset aligned with MLT’s mission and growth trajectory.
- Commitment to staying current on nonprofit accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
What We Do
Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) is a non-profit organization that is changing the face of leadership across sectors and driving breakthrough results for individuals and institutions. MLT has established a clear and comprehensive Black equity standard for employers through the MLT Black Equity at Work Certification. The Certification provides the roadmap and the recognition necessary to enable and encourage employers across America to make the shift from perpetuating the Black inequity problem to propelling the Black equity solution. Becoming MLT Black Equity at Work Certified requires employers to take the same results-oriented approach with Black equity as they do with quarterly earnings and other core business priorities. MLT supports high-achieving African Americans, Latinx, and Native Americans with a winning professional playbook, one-on-one coaching, and door-opening relationships that accelerate their career paths from college to MBA to senior leadership. MLT has created a thriving network of more than 8,000 Rising Leaders and is fundamentally transforming the diverse talent pipelines at its partner organizations, including more than 150 leading corporations, nonprofits, and business schools. MLT is a leading source of minority talent for top graduate business schools and for many of the nation's premier corporations including Amazon, Boston Consulting Group, Citi, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Google, Greylock Partners, PepsiCo, and Target. MLT's innovative solution has also resulted in strategic partnerships with leading philanthropies such as the Ballmer Group, Citi Foundation, Cognizant U.S. Foundation, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, New Profit, Inc., and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. MLT has been featured on the cover of Fortune, in The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. For more information, visit MLT.org.
