The Financial Accountant joins a four-person Finance team supporting a $20M+ operating budget across three regions and a national office.
Reporting to the Financial Controller, this role owns the organization’s record keeping, general ledger management, accounts payable, and corporate card expense reconciliation, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and on time so leadership can make informed decisions.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and post journal entries with complete supporting documentation, ensuring proper classification of revenue and expenses in compliance with GAAP and internal accounting policies.
- Manage the month-end and year-end close, ensuring all financial data is accurate and complete by established deadlines.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts monthly, including cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and fixed assets, and resolve variances promptly.
- Monitor, track, and record monthly prepaids, accruals, and other closing entries.
- Reconcile payroll and benefit liability accounts to PEO reports.
- Record grant tagging entries to allocate operating expenses to the appropriate grants.
- Maintain the chart of accounts and the accuracy of regional, departmental, and grant dimensions in Sage Intacct.
- Maintain the fixed asset register and record monthly depreciation and amortization.
- Ensure vendor invoices are accurate, properly approved, and paid on time.
- Process and review organizational expenses, including weekly check runs, student payments, and monthly Amex submissions.
- Serve as the primary resource for employees on finance tools and processes (e.g., Amex reporting, invoice payments, and reimbursements).
- Enforce expense, purchasing, and reimbursement policies, and follow up on missing receipts and approvals.
- Review the AP aging regularly and resolve outstanding or disputed items.
- Prepare and deliver audit documentation, including general ledger detail, reconciliations, financial reports, and supporting schedules, within auditors’ requested timeframes.
- Perform all accounting work in accordance with GAAP and internal policies to support a clean, timely audit.
- Provide accurate grant expense data to program and development staff to support grant reporting and compliance.
- Other duties as assigned.
General Ledger Management (including Month-End and Year-End Closing)
Accounts Payable Management
Audit & Compliance
Qualifications
- Four or more years of accounting experience, preferably in financial accounting and reporting, grants, and expense management; nonprofit experience a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience allocating expenses across grants and functional categories (program, management and general, and fundraising).
- Ability to explain financial concepts clearly and patiently to non-finance colleagues.
- Sound professional judgment and discretion with confidential information.
- Experience with Sage Intacct and other cloud-based financial and office software; Concur experience strongly preferred.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and large data sets.
- Working knowledge of nonprofit accounting standards (ASC 958) and grant/fund accounting.
- CPA or progress toward CPA licensure a plus.
- Able to manage multiple complex projects at once while meeting firm deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; a strong listener who can influence without authority, manage expectations, and navigate difficult conversations to move the work forward.
- Flexible and adaptable as organizational needs and priorities change.
- Highly organized, with strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated alignment with iMentor's mission, core values, and commitment to fostering a supportive and collaborative community that welcomes the perspectives of all individuals.
- Recognizes and values the unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of all individuals, and actively contributes to a welcoming and collaborative environment.
- Our organization works in partnership with district public schools across the country. In doing so we must meet all compliance requirements of those districts including background checks.
- Ability to commit to a hybrid schedule (two days per week in office) and have reliable home internet access.
Skills Required
- Four or more years of accounting experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience allocating expenses across grants and functional categories
- Ability to explain financial concepts clearly and patiently to non-finance colleagues
- Professional judgment and discretion with confidential information
- Experience with Sage Intacct and cloud-based financial and office software
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and large data sets
- Working knowledge of nonprofit accounting standards, including ASC 958, and grant/fund accounting
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects while meeting firm deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong listening, influencing, expectation-management, and conflict-navigation skills
- Flexibility and adaptability as organizational needs and priorities change
- Strong organization and attention to detail
- Alignment with iMentor’s mission, core values, and commitment to an inclusive, collaborative community
- Ability to complete required school-district background checks
- Ability to work a hybrid schedule two days per week in the office
- Reliable home internet access
- Financial accounting and reporting experience
- Nonprofit accounting experience
- Concur experience
- CPA license or progress toward CPA licensure
What We Do
iMentor builds mentoring relationships that empower students to graduate high school, succeed in college, and achieve their ambitions. Since 1999, iMentor has connected more than 30,000 students with mentors. In the next 5 years, iMentor will scale to serve even more mentor-mentee pairs. In New York City, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay area, iMentor partners with public schools to ensure every student in the schools receives a mentor. Across the country, iMentor provides nonprofit partners the tools to run their own high-impact programs in the iMentor model. This includes a technology platform, a research-based curriculum, and program analysis tools. iMentor has been recognized through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and the Robin Hood Foundation, and is a subgrantee of the federal Social Innovation Fund. iMentor is one of the most innovative and quickly growing organizations of its kind in the country. As a team, we are mission-focused, results-oriented, passionate, and fun. And we’re proud to have been named one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For by Opportunity Knocks and The Nonprofit Times.









