Accounting Manager
Arrow Child and Family Ministries
Spring, Texas
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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
LOCATION
Spring, Texas
POSTED
23 days ago
This position provides departmental leadership for the daily operations and activities of Arrow’s accounting department. This individual must be highly organized, service oriented, and an effective communicator. This position is expected to work on multiple, concurrent tasks while applying critical thinking and analysis, to include an in-depth understanding and ability to articulate the rationale and application of accounting principles.
This position ensures continuity of the organization’s day-to-day fiscal management; primary functions include purchasing and accounts payable, billing, supplier and payer management, cash receipts, collections, help desk oversight, and management reporting. Position is privy to confidential information and must uphold client, staff, donor, and other organizational confidentiality.
Benefits Include:
- Medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance options, including HSA match for qualifying contributions.
- Parental Paid Leave
- Retirement savings plan with company match.
- Paid time off and holiday pay.
- Mileage reimbursement.
- Tuition reimbursement available.
- Company sponsored learning and development
Other duties may be assigned as necessary.
- Manage and oversee daily accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely processing of all financial transactions across multiple programs and funding sources.
- Supervise general ledger activities, including review and approval of journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and month-end close processes.
- Oversee full-cycle accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to established deadlines.
- Ensure proper recording and tracking of fixed assets, depreciation schedules, and capital expenditures.
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual analysis and supporting schedules for internal leadership.
- Generate customized financial reports and ad-hoc analyses related to suppliers, payers, billing activity, program performance, travel/expense management, and asset tracking.
- Maintain financial records in compliance with GAAP, nonprofit accounting standards, and organizational policies.
- Oversee contract billing and collections for government contracts, and fee-for-service programs, ensuring compliance with funding requirements.
- Develop, implement, and continuously refine billing processes, including rate updates, funding source tracking, and revenue recognition procedures.
- Monitor accounts receivable aging, identify collection risks, and implement corrective actions to improve reimbursement timelines and cash flow.
- Reconcile billing data across systems to ensure accuracy between service documentation, billing submissions, and financial records.
- Oversee contract payments for contracts and leases ensuring compliance with contractrequirements.
- Develop, implement, and continuously refine payment processes, and expense recognitionprocedures.
- Monitor accounts payable aging, identify risks, and implement corrective actions toimprove payment timelines and cash flow.
- Reconcile supplier and expense data across systems to ensure accuracy between servicedocumentation, invoice, and financial records.
- Ensure appropriate segregation of duties and compliance with established internal control policies.• Conduct routine internal control reviews and recommend improvements to reduce risk exposure and strengthen financial oversight.
- Support cost allocation methodologies and conduct time studies in accordance with federal, state, and contractual requirements.
- Prepare audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation; coordinate responses to auditor and grantor inquiries.
- Ensure adherence to federal, state, and local funding regulations, including monitoring restricted and unrestricted funding classifications.
- Identify financial risks and escalate material concerns to senior leadership in a timely manner.
- Monitor daily cash activity and assist in preparing short-term and rolling cash flow projections.
- Support budget monitoring by preparing variance analyses and collaborating with program leadership to address discrepancies.
- Manipulate and analyze large volumes of financial data from multiple software systems to ensure reporting accuracy and inform decision-making.
- Identify financial trends, cost drivers, and operational inefficiencies; recommend process improvements.
- Monitor help desk requests ; address escalations and service disruptions in a timely manner.
- Ensure compliance with system security protocols and maintain appropriate user access controls.
- Support system upgrades, automation initiatives, and implementation of new accounting tools to enhance efficiency and reporting accuracy.
- Develop, document, and standardize accounting procedures to improve consistency and operational effectiveness.• Supervise and mentor accounting staff; assign workloads, set performance expectations, and monitor productivity.
- Conduct regular team meetings to review priorities, deadlines, service levels, and quality standards.
- Provide training and onboarding for new hires on accounting policies, procedures, systems, and internal controls.
- Promote a culture of accountability, responsiveness, continuous improvement, and cross departmental collaboration.
- Support recruitment, performance evaluations, corrective action processes, and succession planning efforts.
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the accounting function.
- Serve as escalation point for accounting, billing, or supplier issues and ensure timely resolution.
- Support organizational growth initiatives, new program implementation, and funding expansions from an accounting operations perspective.
- Prepare specialized financial analyses and reports for leadership as requested.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of financial, donor, employee, and organizational information.
- Manage special projects and process improvement initiatives as assigned.
- May be required to drive vehicles, be insurable with our auto insurance provider, and complete company vehicle training.
- Occasional travel may be required.
Bachelor’s degree required with at least five (5) years of financial reporting or accounting experience. Master’s degree and a combination of progressive supervisory experience in accounting, business, and non-profit fields is preferred. In-depth understanding of purchasing and general ledger software applications, data analysis, and Excel is required.
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