Position Title: Accounting Manager, Field Office Accounting

Department: Finance

Location: Remote in CT, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, and VA

Key Relationships:

Reports to: Director, Field Office Finance and Accounting

Direct Reports: 1

Assignment Type: Full time

Compensation: $81,664 to $92,800

Benefits: Click here to learn more about our benefits!

Application Requirements: Resume, completed application questions

About Americares:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Americares Values:

We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.

We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.

We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.

We are better together; partnership is at our core.

We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.

We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

About the position:

The Accounting Manager will serve as a liaison between our Field Office (FO) Accounting team in HQ and the Field Offices in country for all finance and accounting topics. This person will also mentor the Field Office HQ staff reporting directly to the role. This role is key ensuring all processes are followed which at results in continuance for our grants.

Key Outcomes:

In the first 90 days, the Manager will:

• Learn and live the Americares values.
• Complete all required new hire onboarding trainings.
• Fully understand the key items/deliverables of the field offices under their supervision.
• Ensure a timely month end closing.

o Including shadowing peers on revision of accounting workpapers and accounting transactions

o Understanding of ERPx approval processes.

• Develop a relationship with staff in admin, finance, and accounting in the local field office.
• Begin to be involved in the PAP (Patient Assistance Program) operational/accounting process.
• Full understanding of the forecast items and review.

In the first 6 months, the Manager will:

• Strengthen relationships with Field Office staff and the HQ FO team.
• Ensure a timely month end closing

o Including proposed improvements

o Thorough review of accounting workpapers and accounting transactions and providing feedback to staff and/or FO accounting team.

• Demonstrate a complete understanding of the accounting closing a ERPx.
• Support preparation of the SF425, review and timely submission.
• Be fully involved in the PAP operational/accounting process.

In the first year, the Manager will:

• Fully own and be accountable for all the areas mentioned above.
• Suggest and/or incorporate improvements and best practices to processes.
• Lead and engage in conversations with leadership, including MoM results, FO suggested or requested needs.
• Have visited at least one FO to fully understand local operational/accounting procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Field office accounting closing
• Financial reporting package
• PAP process
• Relationship building with field office staff
• Mentorship of staff
• SF425 submission
• Support for audits
• Additional duties as needed

These competencies are required for the role:

• Bachelor degree in Accounting
• Big 10 accounting experience and/or 5 years of recent global non-profit accounting experience
• Demonstrated problem solving experience with a focus on delivering quality results
• Demonstrated experience leading accounting closing
• Demonstrated experience supervising and mentoring direct and indirect reports and team members in a global organization
• Experience providing support to local and HQ audits
• Exceptionally detail oriented and analytical in your approach to working effectively
• Proficiency in all Microsoft applications, including advanced proficiency in Excel
• Ability to travel 15-25% of the time to field office locations

US work authorization is required for this role.

These competencies would be great to have, but are not required:

• Accounting experience in a global humanitarian/development organization.
• Experience working in African countries, specifically Liberia and Tanzania
• Master’s degree in Accounting
• Fluency in languages that are spoken in at least one of our core locations (India, Philippines, Tanzania, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Colombia, etc.), in addition to English.

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Equity and inclusion
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Management
• Strategy and planning
• Decision making

We know not all applicants will demonstrate all the competencies we’re looking for, and that women and underrepresented groups tend to not apply unless they meet all the requirements. We encourage you to apply even if you do not check all the boxes above, and we look forward to reviewing your application holistically.

What you can expect, if you move forward in every step of the recruitment process:

• Online video interview with People and Talent (30-45 minutes)
• Online written competency assessment of skills directly related to the role (1 hour)
• Online video interview with team (45 minutes)
• Online video interview with direct supervisor (45 minutes)
• Reference check
• Offer!
• Background check and onboarding

Americares is currently authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Please note that we do not provide relocation assistance at this time. #LI-REMOTE

Americares is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Americares. At any point in the recruitment process, we may request additional information to confirm qualifications. Any misrepresentation of qualifications in any stage of the process will prevent the applicant from moving forward in the process.

To request a disability accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at talentcenter@americares.org.