Position: Accounting Manager (Full Time, Remote)

Organization: Accelerate Change

Reports to: Director of Finance, Stephanie Vicente

Direct Reports: N/A

Location: Full-time, 100% remote position in the U.S. (from home or co-working space) with occasional travel once every 2-3 months

COVID-19: We take Covid-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our Covid safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boosted. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law. For employees based in the state of Florida and Texas, the COVID-19 vaccine is encouraged, but not required due to Florida and Texas laws.

About Accelerate Change

Founded in 2012, Accelerate Change is a nonprofit (c3/c4) digital media lab. We work to increase civic engagement with BIPOC and low-income communities through digital media. Our programs include:

• Scaling emerging cultural media properties

• Investing in established cultural media properties

• Building influencer networks

• Leading a digital media lab

• Driving civic engagement campaigns

Learn more about our theory of change, approach, and impact at https://acceleratechange.org/about/ 

Our team is made up of digital media innovators and operators who bring a mix of tech, business, civic engagement, and media backgrounds. Meet our team and learn more about our culture at https://acceleratechange.org/values-team/ 

About the Position

Accelerate Change is seeking a well-rounded technical accounting expert who can work as a member of a team to accomplish the full cycle of audit, general ledger (GL), and financial processes, with a special focus on grant revenue management and navigating payroll interdependencies. The finance department and the organization as a whole is in a state of transition from old systems to new systems. Resilience is critical, as well as attention to detail, since we will be tasked with setting up new accounting and financial structures, and updating processes across a network of financial needs.

Here’s what you could expect to do as Accounting Manager (key responsibilities):

Systems, Processes, and Documentation:

• Accounting System Management: Support the Sr. Accounting Manager with transactions for the Central Team and Partners in NetSuite, while continually assessing the system's control environment to mitigate risks and optimize financial workflows.

• Internal Audit: Conduct regular internal reviews of accounting documentation, processes and general ledger schedules (prepaid expenses, fixed assets, accruals). Support the Director of Finance in the creation and management of robust internal controls to ensure data integrity.

• Quality Assurance: Proactively identify financial control gaps. Provide actionable recommendations for systems and procedural improvements, and design and execute corrective action plans when necessary.

• Policies, Principles, and GAAP Compliance: Manage, update, and enforce proper accounting methods and organizational policies. Ensure strict compliance with GAAP and IRS guidelines, specifically regarding nonprofit financial statement presentation and internal control frameworks.

Revenue Recognition & Grant Management

• Revenue Recognition & Compliance: Oversee technical accounting across non-profit grants and for-profit earned revenue, ensuring proper ASC 958/ASC 606 revenue recognition, fund restriction tracking, and potential sales tax compliance.

• Restricted Fund Compliance: Partner with development and program teams to monitor grant spending, ensure compliance with donor-imposed restrictions, and maintain meticulous schedules for tracking net assets released from restrictions.

Leadership and Collaboration:

• Payroll Department Interdependency: Serve as the primary Finance liaison to the Payroll department with a focus on multi-entity (C3, C4, P.B.C.) allocations. Collaborate closely on reconciling payroll registers to the general ledger, managing intercompany allocations, and ensuring accurate benefits and tax accounting.

• Subject Matter Expertise: Provide the Director of Finance with strategic guidance on complex technical accounting, internal audit findings, and evolving regulatory matters, serving as the finance compliance leader.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work in close partnership with other departments across Finance, People, and Development to address rapidly changing network needs. 

• Audit Readiness & Management: Lead internal audit preparation and directly collaborate with external auditors and the Sr Accounting Manager on annual audit and tax filing (Form 990, K-1) requests, ensuring seamless delivery of schedules and narratives.

• Positional Leadership: Remove barriers for, and hold the Finance team accountable to standards that center equity, belonging, and service to diverse constituents

• Startup Flexibility: Support other manager-level work in Finance as needed in a dynamic startup environment

We’ll also look for the Accounting Manager to:

• TBD. As part of a rapidly growing organization, you’ll need to embrace change, and that your responsibilities will shift over time. Pitching in to help with the needs of your department and the overall Central Team is an important part of your role.

• Help advance our goal of becoming an anti-racist organization. Within your role, apply equitable work practices, challenge white supremacy, and help make our programs more inclusive. Center our understanding that multiple systems of oppression intersect with racism and be an active part of our values work.

• Serve as a resource to our networks of partners. Help amplify partner successes, make connections between partners and facilitate learning sharing, and offer your expertise to partners in our networks wherever it makes sense.

• Take an entrepreneurial approach to their work and learning new skills. In our fast-paced, unstructured environment, we love it when staff first try to figure things out on their own and then ask for help if they’re stuck.

• Seek out opportunities to deepen their skills on current/emerging platforms and with lean startup methodology. We take an individualized approach to growth where staff have the chance to explore and propose development opportunities that align with their interests and the team’s priorities.

What We’re Looking For

• Commitment to social change. Accelerate Change is a mission-driven workplace focused on civic engagement with BIPOC and low-income communities. You have a demonstrated commitment to this work and you’d like to be part of a team of people who do, too.

• 3+ years experience with key responsibilities: We’re looking for someone who has at least 3 years of experience with managing full-cycle accounting processes, ideally with a background in internal audit and process improvement, with specific expertise in grant revenue recognition and payroll-accounting reconciliation.

• Attention to detail: One of your strengths is your keen attention to detail. While none of us are perfect, you have a track record of delivering error-free work and you take pride in your precision as a finance and accounting leader. 

• Stakeholder communication: You’re a pro at providing written and verbal updates and communicating with key stakeholders effectively. You enjoy blocks of time where you’re head down in financials as much as you enjoy blocks of time where you’re in meetings with colleagues, and you’re okay with having both of those time blocks during any given day.

• Solution finder: You understand that certain aspects of finance and accounting must adhere strictly to standards and compliance. Beyond those areas, you thrive on using creativity to develop solutions that support organizational goals and enhance your teammates' work experience, always aiming to find a compliant path to “yes.”

• Interest in digital media: You are interested in the power of digital media for organizing and social change. You regularly engage - personally or professionally - with many of the following and are interested to learn more about Accelerate Change’s work with others on this list: TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, podcasts, streaming shows.

Benefits

• $85,000 - $115,000 salary range, with exact salary depending on experience and new staff rarely starting at the top of the range. 

• Flexibility for work and life: Unlike a lot of places, we actually believe that people should only work 40 hours each week, except for occasional sprints that require more time in a week. We also trust everyone to make a schedule that works for them, as long as you’re able to join all necessary meetings. Want to work more one day and less the next? Fine by us. Work better in the middle of the night than during the afternoon? Go for it. Need to shift your hours to be able to pick up your kid from school? All good. 

• Health care at the beginning of your employment with individual premiums fully covered and cost-share for dependents. Vision and dental plans are available at-cost to the individual.

• 15 paid vacation days, 6 paid holidays, 3 paid floating holidays each year and 7.5 paid sick days each year

• Professional development funds, with renewal of funds each fiscal year

• Cell phone and internet reimbursement (or co-working reimbursement): We acknowledge that working from home requires using your own internet and phone for work purposes so we offer a set reimbursement amount for cell phone and internet usage. If working from home isn’t for you, we also have the option for folks to rent a co-working space and get reimbursed for their monthly costs. 

• Need-based educational loan assistance after 3 months

• 401K contributions and matching program available at the beginning of your employment 

• Annual office closure during the last week in December

To apply, please upload your resume and tell us more about your experience on the application on our website. 

Accelerate Change is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQIA+ people must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.