POSITION DESCRIPTION
Title: Senior Accountant
Reports to: CEO
Salary Range: $75,000 -80,000 per year
Exempt, Full Time
Management: Yes
ABOUT THE BCA:
A leading force in the city’s cultural community, Boston Center for the Arts has supported thousands of individual artists, small organizations and performing arts companies, who add depth and dimension to the Boston arts ethos.
Through residencies and programming, Boston Center for the Arts serves as an epicenter for an expanding cohort of artists working across all disciplines, and has catalyzed careers by providing fertile ground for experimentation and artistic risk-taking.
RACIAL EQUITY COMMITMENT:
Black Lives Matter. It is incumbent upon us to act accordingly, and to identify those ways that we, as a leading cultural organization, can stop perpetuating pervasive and systemic white supremacist practices and lead through our actions.
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is committed to doing the hard work of dismantling even the most subtle forms of white supremacy in our organization, in our practices, and in the work we do to help make Boston a place where ALL artists can live and thrive.
POSITION CONCEPT:
The Senior Accountant is responsible for the daily accounting operations of the BCA. The Senior Accountant performs all accounting and bookkeeping needs, prepares financial reporting, manages accounts payable and accounts receivable, supports the annual audit, and performs certain functions related to human resources and other duties associated with the financial management of a mid-size nonprofit organization. The Senior Accountant reports to the CEO and Controller.
Skills required include: thorough working knowledge of business and financial practices associated with nonprofits; thorough knowledge of GAAP; and strong communication and time management skills. This individual must show exceptional maturity and an ability to effectively communicate and follow the mission of the BCA and the policies of the CEO and Board of Directors.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The duties of this position include, but are not limited to:
- Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information;
- Responsible for monthly closing of financials, including bank reconciliations, expense accrual, prepaids JE, contributed income reconciliation, business insurance tracking and balance account reconciliations;
- Maintain and balance subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions, and resolving discrepancies;
- Responsible for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Fixed Assets;
- Produce payroll by initiating computer processing and verifying finished product;
- Assist with completion of external audit by analyzing/scheduling general ledger accounts and providing information to auditors;
- Prepare and maintain tenant leases and related schedules;
- Assist with new hire paperwork, enrollment in employee benefits and relevant personnel files;
- Liaise with staff in other departments to communicate financial information;
- Attend specified evening and weekend events as required; and
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or 8-10 years of experience in accounting/finance.
- extensive experience with nonprofit financial operations including thorough knowledge of GAAP and Fund Accounting;
- experience working in a nonprofit setting; knowledge of the performing arts and non-profit management;
- experience running payroll;
- ability to multi-task successfully;
- experience working with the Microsoft Office Suite and QuickBooks Desktop;
- excellent organizational skills;
- outgoing and friendly demeanor;
- strong oral and written communication skills;
- an ability to maintain the highest professional ethics at all times
- experience with Bill.com is a plus.
Please provide your resume and a letter of inquiry with your application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
All staff are required to work in-person, on-site at the BCA campus; there is no option for fully remote work. Additionally, it is a requirement of all staff to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Boston Center for the Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The BCA prohibits discrimination based upon an individual's age, ancestry, citizenship, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Top Skills
What We Do
Mission
Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works, develops new audiences, and connects the arts to community.
The Complex
The BCA’s 190,000 square foot campus consists of:
• Four theatres. These include the BCA Plaza Theatre with 142 seats; the BCA Plaza Black Box with up to 90 seats, as well as the new, state-of-the-art Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, which houses the Roberts Studio Theatre with up to 209 seats and the Wimberly Theatre with up to 370 seats.
• Rehearsal and education space. Rehearsal Hall A and Deane Rehearsal Hall in the Calderwood Pavilion are the main rehearsal spaces for larger companies and are also used for performances, events, and meetings.
• The Mills Gallery. The premier, independent non-profit gallery in Boston, showing the work of local and national, established and emerging artists
• The Tremont Estates Building. The Artists Studio Building is the working home for over 50 artists.
• The Cyclorama. Opened in 1865, the Cyclorama is on the National Register of Historic Places. Featuring a copper skylight dome atop a round brick-lined 23,000 square foot space, the Cyclorama can host up to 1,200 visitors.
• The Boston Ballet Building. This Graham Gund-designed building has been home to the Boston Ballet for 16 years.
• The Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB). Now in its 99th year, CMCB has positively impacted the lives of thousands of children and adults each year, many of them underserved, through lessons and classes on site, in the Boston Public Schools, through social service agencies and at community centers.
• Beehive Jazz Café, is nestled in the BCA complex in space that was once occupied by a black-box theatre at street level and a basement. Now, a dining room on the upper level overlooks the lower level café and stage where live jazz is featured nightly.
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