General Ledger Accountant

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<div class="isg-job-description“>Salary: $65,000k annually
Hours: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm/Hybrid schedule

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Job Summary

As a detail-oriented and experienced General Ledger Accountant, you will own the end-to-end management of both cash and non-cash account reconciliations including everything from bank and petty cash to intercompany and suspense accounts ensuring they are accurate, timely, and audit-ready. You will oversee the full fixed-asset lifecycle, tracking capital expenditures through to monthly depreciation, disposals, and impairment reviews, and reconciling the asset subledger to the general ledger. On a monthly cadence, you’ll prepare and post journal entries for prepaids, accruals, consignment payables, allocations, and other complex adjustments, while leading the cash reconciliation process and partnering with the VP of Accounting on cash-flow forecasting to optimize liquidity. Working closely with the Director of Accounting, program managers, external auditors, and peers across finance, you’ll strengthen internal controls, drive process improvements, and ensure GAAP and policy compliance. Your analysis and clear financial reporting will inform strategic decisions, support external audits, and continuously elevate the accuracy and efficiency of our accounting function. .

Primary Duties

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. These duties and responsibilities will be rated on the Annual Performance Review.

• Cash and Non-Cash Reconciliations: perform monthly bank reconciliations and ensure all cash transactions are recorded accurately; reconcile non-cash balance sheet accounts including prepaid expenses, monthly accruals, lease liabilities, and other payables and investigate and clear discrepancies.

• Fixed-Asset Management: maintain the fixed-asset register, record asset acquisitions, transfers, disposals, and calculate depreciation; conduct periodic physical inventories to validate the schedule as necessary.

• Allocations & Cost Distributions: calculate and post shared-cost allocations across departments, programs, and grants in line with organizational policies and indirect cost guidelines.

• Prepaid Expenses: track and record prepaid expenses including licenses, insurance, and other supplier invoices that provide coverage over multiple periods.

• Consignment Payables: Ensure all consignment payable accounts are accurate and reconciled each month.

Additional Responsibilities

• Participate and support the month-end and year-end close process by preparing and reviewing journal entries, reconciliations, and balance-sheet roll-forwards to ensure the integrity of the general ledger.

• Serve as one of the key liaisons for the external auditors assisting with the coordination of audit schedules and resolving audit findings in a timely manner.

• Monitor and suggest enhancements to the current internal control environment by maintaining up-to-date accounting policies, monitoring compliance with GAAP and organizational standards, and executing periodic control self-assessments.

• Assist with ERP system upgrades and enhancements.

• Act as a finance business partner by delivering actionable financial analysis, variance explanations, and KPI reporting to senior leadership, enabling data-driven decision-making.

• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications: education, experience, and Certification(s)

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field required.

• 3-5 years of progressive general ledger or financial accounting experience, including monthly and year-end close cycles required.

• Proficient in US GAAP and FASB standards, with hands-on expertise reconciling balance-sheet accounts, preparing journal entries, and performing variance analysis required.

• Preferred large ERP experience (e.g. Workday, Oracle, SAP)

• Experience in nonprofit or government-contract accounting, including management of restricted net assets.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A well-organized and self-directed individual who is a team player.

• An intelligent individual who can relate to people at all levels of an organization.

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Ability to operate a variety of automated and standard office equipment.

• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills (i.e. pivot tables, VLOOKUP).

• Demonstrated ownership of account reconciliations for cash, non-cash accounts.

• Ability to prepare audit-ready schedules, support internal reviews and external audits.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and a continuous-improvement mindset.

• Effective communicator who partners across departments to clarify accounting treatment and streamline processes.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk and sit. The employee may occasionally lift or move products and supplies up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

What We Offer – for Benefit Eligible Employees May Include:

Because ServiceSource hires the best people, we work hard to provide benefits that make their lives better, so we offer a comprehensive benefit program which features:

• Health coverage for you and your family through Medical, Dental, and Vision plans.

• Financial protection with 100% company paid Disability, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance.

• A 403(b)-Retirement plan in which the company matches dollar for dollar on a generous percentage matching up to 3% of your contribution.

• Tax advantages through Flexible Spending and Health Savings accounts that allow you to pay for specific healthcare and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.

• To help you manage your work and life needs, we offer an Employee Assistance Program, Wellness Program, and Tuition Assistance.

• A generous paid time-off program in which the benefits increase based on your tenure with the company.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, making employment decisions without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and transgender status), national origin, age (40 or older), veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are an E-Verify Employer and a drug-free workplace. Pre-employment background checks are required for all employment positions.

PAY TRANSPARENCY POLICY STATEMENT:

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information

ServiceSource is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. If accommodation is needed in the Application process, arrangements can be made with the local regional office http://www.servicesource.org/contact-us. We are an E-Verify Employer and a drug-free workplace. Pre-employment background checks are required for all employment positions.