Accountant/Bookkeeper

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Elevate You Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works to alleviate trauma and reduce recidivism in the currently and formerly incarcerated community by providing Board of Parole Hearing and re-entry services. We are passionate about being mentors, friends, and a bridge to freedom and success for the incarcerated population.

We are looking for a dedicated and reliable accountant and/or bookkeeper to help organize our finances and other relevant data, as well as assist with other necessary tasks, as we begin to grow as an up and coming non-profit.

Duties will primarily include:

• Basic data entry: recording all of the expenses, donations, transactions, and other financial data in a software or spreadsheet and keeping records up-to-date and organized.
• Allocating costs: make the necessary allocations to keep expenses organized. For instance, bookkeepers may allocate costs by program, administrative, and fundraising.
• Reviewing accounts: ensure everything looks correct in the nonprofit’s accounts to make sure the organization is on track for future goals.
• Preparing detailed reports: compile comprehensive reports explaining organization’s transactions, usually on a monthly basis, as well as other required reports, such as budgets.
• Preparing books for audit: ensure everything in our non-profit's transaction history matches our books so that it’s ready for an annual audit.
• Filing Form 990: ensure this tax form is in order and file the annual Form 990 in order to report financial data back to the government and maintain 501(C)(3) status.
• Review all bank accounts to ensure they meet GAAP compliance standards. Nonprofit accountants will keep your nonprofit up to accepted industry reporting standards.

Strong candidates will ask themselves questions like:

• "Does this look correct?"
• "Is there a better way to present this?"
• "Should this be allocated with a different method?"
• "Have we associated the right expense to the correct category?"
• "Does this budget accurately portray what we expect to happen?"