Educate!,Part-Time Senior Accountant Jobs in Uganda

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Educate! is seeking
a part-time driven, meticulous senior accountant who is interested in
supporting the growth of a fast-paced, mission-driven organization. We expect
our needs to be approxi
mately 15 hours of remote work each month. The ideal
candidate will be highly organized and motivated to be a key player our
award-winning team can count on as we scale our operations.

We rely heavily on
accurate and efficient financial management to support our operations and
fundraising, and we are looking for the right person to entrust with our
finances and communicate clearly with our team to help us reach the next level
as an organization. Exceptional candidates will have 5+ years of experience in
non-profit accounting and financial management, including work for $5 million
non-profit organizations.

Objectives:

1. Reconciles all bank accounts
monthly

2. Manages
Educate!’s bookkeeper

3. Reviews monthly
management reports from our Uganda financial department

4. Merges
international and US books quarterly, managing multiple currencies

5. Manages
restricted funds flow

6. Maintains general
ledger

7. Manages year-end
closing of accounts

8. Manages quarterly
closing of accounts

9. Prepares
quarterly and year-end financial reports

10. Produces
financial reports to provide donors with accurate and informative data

11. Communicates
regularly with Educate! staff to report any issues and maintain familiarity
with financial state, and communicate as requested to Educate! Board

12. Assesses and improves
financial systems, conscious of challenges specific to Africa operations and to
scale/growth

13. Makes
improvements responding to 2014 audit

14. Supports staff
to prepare for and act as primary point person for annual audits

Qualifications

High
degree of attention to detail, keen sense of personal responsibility, and
ability to work efficiently and independently.

Candidates
with a Bachelor’s degree in accounting and an advanced degree or CPA
preferred

3 years
of proven accounting experience required, including senior nonprofit
accounting. International organization experience preferred. $5 million+
organization experience preferred.

Strong
command of general accounting principles as they related to non-profit
work and ability to create, maintain and analyze P&L (accrual and cash
basis), Balance Sheet, Cash flow, etc.

Advanced
proficiency with Quickbooks. Ideally, ability to recommend and transition
to a different system if preferable.
Must
organize and prioritize work while managing multiple projects for a
seamless experience for clients.

Strong
communication skills; capable of presenting complex financial information
in an easy-to-understand format to non-financial executives

Fits
our Five Cultural Tenets- see What is Educate! About? below

Terms

Salary
is commensurate with experience

Location
is remote

Position
will require 10-25 hours per week, depending on the season

What is Educate!
About?

We’re
ambitious. Are you?
Educate! is growing fast, so new opportunities are opening up and expanding all
the time. We’re inspired by people with drive, and we love to help them reach
their full potential. We expect everyone at Educate! to contribute above and
beyond their job description, grow their skills, and advance their careers –
and we are committed to supporting our staff members on that journey.

We
Put Youth First – The youth we serve come first. Always.
In everything. That means we wake up thinking of ways we can serve youth
even better and get the highest impact out of every dollar that we spend.
It means Educate! doesn’t own a single vehicle, because we’d rather take
the bus if it means one more student can participate. It means making
every decision like the future depends on it — because if we get our way,
it does!
We
Are Always Learning – When you work at Educate!,
educating yourself
is part of your job too. We encourage every employee to find the best book
on management; share the latest article on graphic design; bring in your
favorite college mentor; or meet the researcher pushing the edge of the
field. We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to share.
We
Only Solve a Problem Once – We are allergic to band-aids
so we love the person who brings the new system to solve the problem for
good, even problems we haven’t recognized yet.
We
Are Flexible – We thrive on change — we’re driving it.
We are growing every day, so we have to adapt quickly to meet new
challenges, and our team keeps up.
We
Exceed Expectations – We assume we can achieve the
impossible because we already have, year after year. We want our staff to
create your own challenges, ask the toughest questions, and dream scary
big!

Every person at
Educate! — from interns to the executive director — is evaluated by how they
live up to these five cultural tenets. They are at the core of how we achieve
our mission and why we work as well as we do.