501 Commons is looking for highly motivated, talented, professional individuals for our ever growing financial services division. The Program Associate will be responsible for providing bookkeeping and intermediate accounting services to small and medium sized non-profits in the Puget Sound area.

Financial Services Program Manager or Senior Financial Services Associate assign individual Associates to clients, monitor Associate & Bookkeeper performance, and provide general support to Associates & Bookkeepers. All Program Associates will have regular access to an experienced CPA who can assist with challenging problems or answer difficult questions.

Responsibilities

Delivers bookkeeping service consistent with the particular client engagement
Adheres to 501 Commons’ accounting and customer service standards
Records regular transactions including payments and receipts
Processes payroll including tax payments and reporting
Produces basic financial statements, budgets, and other financial documents
Reconciles accounts
Proactively communicates potential client engagement issues or opportunities to management
Maintains effective systems of controls to account for all receipts and expenditures of funds
Assures compliance of client organizations with tax and reporting requirements
Participates in client accounting projects, consulting, and clean up

Competencies

Demonstrates good active listening with clients, peers, volunteers, and supervisors
Maintains and demonstrates a customer-focus consistent with 501 Commons’ values and guidelines
Handles ambiguity appropriately by involving others including client(s), supervisors and peers as needed.
Utilizes critical thinking skills and produces work at a high level of accuracy
Uses good time management demonstrated by meeting or exceeding deadlines, maintains an accurate work calendar, and sufficiently anticipates task duration.
Fosters strong professional relationships with clients, peers, and supervisors
Demonstrates problem sensitivity by recognizing and communicating to supervisor occurrences, patterns, or feelings that something may become a problem or issue.
Effectively communicates with clients, peers, and supervisors in written and or verbal forms that is both timely, accurate, and complete.
Consistently acts with integrity, ethics, and high moral standards
Shows initiative in identifying opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness
Actively learns on the job through exposure to new challenges, professional education opportunities, team training, and learning from others.
Maintains and improves technical accounting knowledge and skills by attending trainings as requested, participating in giving and receiving team training, and identifies knowledge gaps.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

2-3 years of bookkeeping experience, preferably with nonprofit organizations or equivalent certification
Expert knowledge of QuickBooks 2013 or later and Excel 2010 or later preferred
Experience processing payroll including tax withholding and reporting, preferably within QuickBooks
At least an intermediate knowledge of accounting concepts; AA or BA degree in accounting highly desirable

Inclusiveness Statement 501 Commons is an equal-opportunity employer and seeks to recruit persons of diverse backgrounds and to support the retention and advancement of diverse persons within the organization. We believe that a having a board, staff, and volunteer corps with diverse personal and professional backgrounds enhances our ability to meet our mission.

501 Commons is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that includes people of diverse backgrounds and fully utilizes their talents to achieve its mission. We are committed to fostering and supporting a workplace culture inclusive of people regardless of their race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, marital status, age, physical abilities, political affiliation, religious beliefs or any other non-merit fact, so that all employees feel included, equal valued and supported.

Expected Hours of Work This position is a full-time, 40 hours a week non-exempt position. 501 Commons offers a competitive benefits package and generous PTO.

How to apply

Application Instructions Send resume and cover letter to jobs@501commons.org with Financial Services Associate in the subject line. Applications without cover letter will not be accepted.