Senior Director of Accounting – National

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Position : Senior Director of Accounting, National

Position Type: Internal-External

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Reports to: Mindy Wade, Controller – National

Start date : January 2025

Location: Flexible within the following states only : California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin

Salary Range: $100,500 – $111,000 is the hiring salary range (i.e. the range a candidate would be offered to start). Please note: OneGoal aligns salaries to Cost of Labor, so the actual salary offered would be dependent on the Cost of Labor in the candidate’s living location.

About OneGoal

OneGoal transforms postsecondary advising and support so that every student can define their own future. Together with our partners, we’re building a movement to close the opportunity gap. We work side-by-side with partner schools and districts to build their knowledge and capacity. The result is more equitable and effective support for all students. Our unique approach, honed over 15 years, prioritizes strong human relationships. And it’s proven to deliver real student impact (https://www.onegoalgraduation.org/impact/impact-results/) . 81% of OneGoal high school graduates enroll in a postsecondary institution, and 73% of those students persist one year after high school graduation. An independent study by the University of Chicago found that OneGoal students are about 40% more likely to earn their postsecondary degrees than students from similar backgrounds. We are looking for individuals to join us in our pursuit of equity.

The Person As the Senior Director of Accounting at OneGoal, you will be instrumental in ensuring the financial integrity and strategic direction of our organization. You will play a pivotal role in maintaining robust financial controls, driving operational efficiencies, and supporting our mission.

Reporting directly to the Controller, the Senior Director of Accounting will oversee critical financial functions and lead a team of dedicated accounting professionals. You will be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, preparing comprehensive financial statements, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Your leadership will be pivotal in guiding financial decisions that support our organizational objectives and long-term sustainability.

You will do this by:

• Managing a team of accounting professionals, providing support in daily operations and monthly close.

• Preparing and reviewing monthly financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with GAAP.

• Reviewing and approving monthly adjusting and closing entries, including prepaids, accruals, and depreciation.

• Overseeing monthly bank and credit card reconciliations to maintain accurate financial records.

• Completing annual closing entries such as Allowance/Credit Loss and Discount on Long-Term Pledges.

• Supervising accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, ensuring proper classification and tagging for restricted grants.

• Reviewing grant agreements and revenue entries to ensure revenue recognition compliance.

• Reviewing and tracking all Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), payment terms, and invoicing workflows.

• Collaborating across teams, particularly with revenue teams and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), to support revenue recognition and contract deliverables.

• Reviewing and approving bi-weekly payroll processing and payroll journal entries, ensuring accurate recording of payroll transactions.

• Preparing Temporarily Restricted Net Assets (TRNA) and Fee for Service reconciliations.

• Supporting the gathering of audit and 990 requests and ensuring timely responses to audit and tax inquiries.

• Leading data and process cleanup projects, implementing best practices and streamlined workflows to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

• The position may require quarterly travel for team retreats.

  The Senior Director of Accounting is likely to see himself/herself/themselves in the following examples as they are designed to help you determine if this opportunity aligns with your own passion, purpose, skills, and experiences.

You believe deeply in the brilliance of all students and in their ability to earn a postsecondary degree.

• You believe that our Fellows face real systemic barriers to postsecondary completion and that empowering families, teachers, and students to own their unique path will help them to overcome those barriers.

You are a compelling and effective communicator.

• You have tremendous ability to adapt messages to different audiences in order to inspire stakeholders.

• You discern the appropriate mode of communication, depending on the situation and audience, to build champions and convert skeptics.

• You serve as an ambassador for OneGoal [throughout the region, if applicable].

  You are a continuous learner.

• You are constantly learning, adapting and developing your managerial and leadership skills; you create and seize opportunities to refine your knowledge, skills and mindsets in both your personal and professional life.

• You put more energy into learning, collaboration and innovation, always asking the question “is there a better way?” and being willing to try something new.

• You proactively seek feedback, practice active listening, and are willing to admit and learn from failures, knowing that is key to your growth and success.

You are organized and have a keen attention to detail.

• Things don’t fall through the cracks with you because you understand what’s at stake. You’re proactive in establishing personal systems and processes to ensure your ability to keep track of high volumes of information, to easily access it and to use that information to make data-informed decisions.

• You are a strong planner and are constantly assessing your priorities to manage self/up/out on diverse projects, against competing deadlines and around unanticipated requests. This allows you to be responsive to the needs of others and solve problems as they arise.

You value working collaboratively and innovatively.

• You constantly strive to learn from and share learnings with your teammates, no matter your current knowledge or experience.

• You know when and how to engage other key stakeholders that have the insight and positional authority to help you and others overcome obstacles and seize viable beneficial opportunities in a timely way.

• You do not operate as a blind executor of pre-existing practices; instead, you thoughtfully evaluate the OneGoal program and identify ways to elevate our program’s effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Lived experience of the Fellows we serve is preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.

• Strong knowledge of GAAP principles and financial reporting requirements.

• Proven leadership skills with experience managing and developing a team.

• Experience in nonprofit accounting, including fund accounting principles and financial reporting specific to nonprofit organizations.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with federal grant compliance, including Uniform Guidance preferred.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments and present financial information to stakeholders.

• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and compliance.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Thinking Of Applying?

Research shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you are excited about the role and see connection with what we are looking for, but don’t meet every single requirement, we’d encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Team

Guided by a clear set of core values and beliefs (https://www.onegoalgraduation.org/about/our-beliefs/) , you will join an impressive group of more than 200 OneGoal staff across the country who believe in the untapped potential within students. The OneGoal team challenges themselves and others to regularly ask, “Is there a better way?” You believe in an inclusive and culturally competent society and the essence of our commitment to diversity and inclusion. (https://www.onegoalgraduation.org/commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/) We believe that in order to create the change we seek, each person we hire brings a remarkable and diverse set of experiences, skills and characteristics that individually and collectively, will contribute to the radical change needed to move us towards a more equitable and just nation.

The Tangible Good

OneGoal offers competitive compensation based on the market for nonprofits our size. Our benefits package* includes: over eight weeks of paid time off (or 43 business days), between vacation days, wellness time, and holidays; paid medical or parental leaves should you have need; medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance; as well as a 401(k) with a 3% match.

We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, OneGoal does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the hiring process.

*OneGoal reserves the right to change benefits at any time according to business need.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application or to participate in the application or interview process, please reach out to our Human Assets Team to request an accommodation. Our Human Assets Team can be contacted at 773-321-2630 or [email protected] .

OneGoal is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of actual or perceived sex, race, color, ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability (mental or physical), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, parenthood, genetic characteristic or information, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.

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