Senior Accountant (Regional)

Position Title: Contadora Senior

Location: Remote (Argentina)

Work Hours: Monday- Friday, Full-Time Remote

Summary:

The Senior Accountant will be working based out of Argentina and supporting our regional financial accounting goals for the offices of Washington DC, Argentina and Brazil within the function. This position reports to the Director of Finance and Operations of CEJIL.

Job Duties:

• Ensures the accuracy and monthly accounting for Balance Sheet items, to guarantee its reliability on a live basis
• Performs all salary Journal entries for the DC, Brazil, and Argentina offices
• Performs all end-of-the-year Journal Entries as required in preparation for the annual audit including the accrual balances, lease schedules and other balance sheet schedules
• Ensures contractual staff are paid on time per their agreements
• Maintains copies of all contracted staff agreements for CEJIL up to date and reminds of any expiring agreements; ensures the liabilities are reflected on the balance sheet
• Assembles documentation for internal, donor and public audits throughout the year
• Complies with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements
• Maintains the supporting documentation for each expense for the Argentina Office including agreements, receipts, invoices etc. and ensures its organizations as required
• Ensures the processing of the Argentina expenses in time and supports Argentina Accounts Payable function as needed including for the preparation of payroll related accounting schedules and or projections
• Prepares cohesive error free information for all CEJIL financial audits including all due diligence related items
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational accounting workshops,
• reviewing professional publications.
• Collaborates with program, legal and other departments to accomplish goals for accounting
• Resolves accounts payable questions externally and internally
• Maintains Tsheets up to date for monthly approvals and reports
• Performs other duties as needed and is eager to grow

Skills Required:

• Advanced Accounting
• Reporting
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Deadline-oriented
• Confidentiality
• Time management
• Data entry
• Intermediate proficiency in English
• Spanish fluency
• Ability to proactively ask the right questions to learn the required or new software and accounting processes
• Ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment
• The ideal candidate would also be ready to learn challenging and new financial responsibilities.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Accounting;
• At least 7 years of dedicated full-time accounting experience required; preferably for a mid-size organization 
• QuickBooks experience in previous positions of at least one year
• Advanced knowledge in Excel; intermediate knowledge of other Microsoft Office products
• Ability to communicate and write with minimal errors in English

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee will also perform other reasonable duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Applications will be reviewed in order of arrival. Only the candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. CEJIL ensures equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons, without discrimination on grounds of ethnic origin, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to accounting@cejil.org with the subject line “Contadora Senior”