Arlington, Virginia, USA

DUTIES:

• Provide specialized services to support financial management and reporting; accounting; grants administration, or similar financial activities for the Global Strategy teams.
• Provide financial support and assistance to Conservation Managers related to proposals, grants, reporting, forecasting and budget management.
• Prepare and monitor budgets, prepare timely and accurate forecasts and reports, and support contracts and invoice payments ensuring adherence to all Standard Operating Procedures.
• Work in multiple financial systems and relational databases.
• Work to ensure accurate processing of income, expenses, and transfers, as well as to pull monthly financial reports from the general ledger and other ad hoc reports financial reporting.
• Coordinate and track project-level deadlines for financial reporting to include coordination with various operating units, including incoming grant reporting deadlines.
• Support preparation/processing various transactional accounting forms and reports such as journal entries, expense reclasses, and cash receipts.
• Prepare donor and management financial reports and materials including budget/spend analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• May coordinate data gathering, submission and review for audit.
• Design user friendly templates to enhance data consistency and facilitate analysis for decision making.
• Perform detailed review and analysis of invoices, expense reports, and transaction data for conservation teams.
• May support contract specialist in review and processing of contract payment schedule and reporting.
• Act independently on assigned tasks and exercises sound judgement based on analysis and experience.
• May manage special projects and/or requests that address key contract or financial issues.
• May support the management of multi-year, high value private grants including proposal budgets, monitoring, cost assignment, forecasting and reporting.
• Ensure programmatic commitments, TNC policies and procedures, financial standards and legal requirements are met and managed for compliance.
• Learn and apply TNC corporate policies and procedures, reinforcing consistency while providing support to relevant field.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a closely related field and 3 years of experience with non-profit accounting. Alternatively, Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a closely related field and 1 year of experience with non-profit accounting.

Prior experience must include:

• 1 year of experience with accounting/financial issues and analysis;
• 1 year of experience using accounting and financial reporting systems;
• 1 year of experience with spreadsheet programs, general ledger reports and financial management tools;
• 1 year of experience with GAAP and fund accounting principles, practices and regulations; and,
• Any amount of experience with or demonstrated knowledge* of standard contract clauses.

• Knowledge may be gained through education, training and/or experience.

Position eligible for full or part time telecommuting. SALARY: $80,000 - $90,000/year

LOCATION: 4245 Fairfax Dr #100, Arlington, VA, 22203

TO APPLY: Email cover letter and resume to jessica.geffert@tnc.org. Reference TNC105.

The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.

Our commitment to diversity includes the recognition that our conservation mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of men and women of diverse backgrounds, beliefs and culture. Recruiting and mentoring staff to create an inclusive organization that reflects our global character is a priority and we encourage applicants from all cultures, races, colors, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

The successful applicant must meet the requirements of The Nature Conservancy’s background screening process.