Website Resonance Global
WHO WE ARE
Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.
At Resonance, you get immediate hands-on experience alongside our clients as we work to build sustainable, positive impact. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company.
Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets.
POSITION MANDATE
The Staff Accountant role provides an opportunity to join our dynamic and agile Finance team, where you’ll have the chance to engage with most facets of our back-office finances and support project finances and teams doing impactful work. As a Staff Accountant, you will be instrumental in driving our financial operations forward. This role involves collaborating with the finance team on monthly, quarterly, and year-end closings, including tasks like labor posting and reconciliation, journal entry recording, account reconciliations, and supporting the accounts payables and receivables processes. Additionally, you will assist employees with timekeeping compliance and expense reporting, and play a key role in the implementation of a new electronic expense reporting and reconciliation system.
This is a full time position that reports to the Controller.
OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Timesheets and labor expense processing including:
- Granting project charge codes to employees in the company’s ERP system
- Bi-weekly, posting employee timesheets and labor expense within the ERP system
- Compiling and distributing weekly labor and employee utilization reports
- Providing timekeeping overview training to new hires
- General ledger accounting processes including:
- Generating journal entries for posting in the company’s ERP system
- Completing assigned monthly and quarterly GL account reconciliations
- Assisting with year-end financial statement audit and other regulatory audits
- Company credit card and employee expense reporting and reconciliation including:
- Supporting corporate credit card holders with monthly expense reconciliation
- Posting company credit card expenses in the ERP system
- Liaising with the company’s external travel booking vendor to reconcile travel expenses to corporate credit card
- Support the scoping and implementation of a new electronic expense reporting and reconciliation system to integrate with the company’s ERP system
- Accounts payable processes including:
- Entering certain AP items in the company’s ERP system
- Compiling and filing electronic copies of vendor invoice, backup documentation, and proof of payment
- Entering weekly wire, ACH, and check payments into the company’s banking platforms
- Answering questions from vendors and employees on the status of payments, as needed
- Billing and accounts receivable processes including:
- Supporting Billing Manager with producing client invoices, as needed
- Following up with clients and project teams regarding the status of payments, as needed
- Ad hoc Finance team support and special projects, as needed
- Enable and support organization in driving social, economic, and environmental impact
REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, with a minimum of 2 years’ related experience; or Associate’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, with a minimum of 3 years’ related experience in a similar role; or a minimum of 4 years of experience in an Accounting or Finance role
- Experience working in a U.S. Government contracting environment (USAID or DoD preferred)
- Experience with U.S. Government accounting rules and regulations (e.g. CFR, FAR, AIDAR, DFAR)
- Experience with Deltek Costpoint accounting system
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Office applications, and Adobe PDF editing software
- Experience maintaining electronic employee expense reporting software
PREFERRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Experience working in international development and professional services consulting
- Experience working in a cross-cultural, multi-lingual setting
TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS
Travel is not expected for this position.
Travel is not expected for this position.
WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
As a part of the responsibilities for this job, the employee is required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information orally and in writing with others. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position, sitting at a desk for prolonged periods, move or traverse inside the office and facilities; operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, or position computers and other office equipment, such as a calculator, copy machine, furniture, and computer printer. The employee must be able to make substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and fingers. The employee must be able to lift and move up to 15lbs at times.
WORK AUTHORIZATION / SECURITY CLEARANCE
US work authorization required.