Job Description
Title: Deputy Director of Accounting & Finance
Reports To: Director of Accounting & Finance
Department: Accounting & Finance
Job Summary:
The Deputy Director of Accounting & Finance reports is responsible for supporting the accounting and finance functions for the organization’s three legal entities (527, 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(3)). The Deputy Director will help support DAGA’s financial operation and work closely with the compliance, operations, and human resources teams.
Key responsibilities
The role of the Deputy Director of Accounting & Finance includes but is not limited to the following tasks:
- Review accounting entries to ensure conformity with organization policies and GAAP
- Support payment processing
- Prepare journal entries in accordance with GAAP
- Maintain fixed assets schedules
- Assist the Director of Accounting & Finance with the audit process
- Review monthly bank reconciliations and prepare reconciliations when necessary
- Help with annual budgeting process
- Manage state tax filing requirement including sales tax filing
- Review monthly budget to actuals for departments and prepare reports as needed
- Prepare budget to actuals reports for the Executive Committee and other boards
- Communicate with staff and external partners on payments
- Assist the Director of Accounting & Finance in the preparation of audit schedules and audited financial statements
- Lead the annual 1099 process for vendors and work with the accounts payable officer to ensure that 1099s are timely filed
- Lead the month-end close process
- Maintain the chart of accounts
- Reconcile inter-entities accounts monthly
- Maintain and reconcile balance sheet accounts
- Prepare reports and financial statements for internal and external stakeholders
- Review weekly payment schedules and monthly credit card reconciliations prepared by the accounts payable officer
- Work closely with the accounts payable officer to ensure timely and completion of projects
- Fulfill accounts payable officer duties when needed (i.e., when account payable officer is out of the office)
- Fulfill the duties of the Director of Accounting & Finance when needed (i.e., when the Director is out of the office)
- Special projects as assigned by the Director of Accounting & Finance
- Provide widespread support to the Director of Accounting & Finance
- Serve as a lead on assigned projects within the department
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- 3+ years of experience in accounting and finance
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Excel, word, PowerPoint etc.)
- Experience with QuickBooks or similar software
- Not-for-profit experience preferred
- Cash accounting experience is a plus
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Ability to work without close supervision
- Experience with month-end-close
- Experience with budgeting and reporting
- Available to work in-office
- Commitment to DAGA’s mission to elect Democratic Attorneys General
Desired Skills:
- Passion for quality, diligence, highly ethical, and results oriented
- Willingness to learn and receive feedback
- Ability to quickly absorb and apply training
- Active listening with the ability to ask questions when uncertainties arise
- Ability to adapt to change
- Desire for continuous improvement
- Excellent customer service skills and a high degree of professionalism
- Excellent communication and written skills
- Must be able to manage sensitive and confidential information with honesty and integrity
- Be willing to work on a challenging environment and can juggle many tasks at once
Salary range: $80,000 - $85,000
For more information, or to apply now, you must go to the website below. Please DO NOT email your resume to us as we only accept applications through our website.
https://dems.isolvedhire.com/jobs/845613-300685.html
About the Organization
Founded in 2002 by California AG Bill Lockyer, Iowa AG Tom Miller, and New Mexico AG Patsy Madrid, DAGA began as a part-time political committee based in Denver, Colorado. To better support our Democratic AGs and candidates in executing our mission, the committee moved its operations from Denver, CO to Washington, DC in 2016 and expanded to a full-time professional staff that covers campaigns, recruiting, data analysis, communications, policy, politics, and fundraising. Today, DAGA is a record-breaking, professional committee that supports and elects Democratic AGs—and Democratic AGs are FRONT AND CENTER when it comes to the current political and policy landscape.
