Finance and Accounting Officer
SBP, United States
Job Description
About SBP
SBP is an award-winning, innovative nonprofit organization that shrinks the time between disaster and recovery. A leader in volunteer-driven, post-disaster rebuilding; SBP educates, advocates and improves the disaster recovery sector so that we can collectively achieve more for communities. With a growing team of 85+ staff and 240 AmeriCorps members, SBP has rebuilt more than 2,000 homes across 13 states and in the Bahamas, and shared best practices with many more.
SBP’s vision is to embrace constant improvement, community-wide collaboration, and clear benchmarks to reduce human suffering caused by the tolls of delay in recovery. By pairing resilience training with recovery operations, we strive to reduce the need for our rebuilding services over time by increasing preparedness among vulnerable communities.
SBP encourages individuals who are hungry for change and eager to innovate to join our team so that we can change the future of disaster recovery together.
Position Summary
SBP seeks a mid-level Financial and Accounting Officer to support program management for South Carolina’s City of Columbia's Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) housing R3 (rebuild, renovate or replace) mission who will analyze daily financial activities and subsequently provide advice and guidance to management on future financial plans. The goal is to enable SBP leaders to make sound business decisions and meet grant and contractual objectives. This position will finish on or about December 2022. This key role will oversee the program’s financial data by leading daily financial activities and month-end close process, preparing and presenting financial statements, and managing all general accounting and bookkeeping essential functions. Additionally, this job assists with basic HR duties including payroll administration, employee benefits, new hire onboarding, and employee-related insurance claims compliance.
Responsibilities
- Leads planning and forecasting activities with business partners to achieve business and company goals.
- Reviews financial reports and monitors all invoices
- Coordinates with multiple entities concerning all aspects of the financial program.
- Prepares financial forecasts.
- Monitors financial details to ensure legal compliance.
- Analyzes revenue, expenses, cash flows, and balance sheets.
- Assists management to make financial decisions.
- Reviews invoices and processes contractor payments of the company.
- Maintains an accurate filing and record keeping system for all financial statements and company documents.
- Participates in the execution of changes to procedures, policies, and systems to facilitate expansion, compliance, and scaling of the business.
- Ensures business, administration, and financial management.
- Maintains accounting system and assists with HR duties for the City of Columbia team.
- Attention to detail
- Strong quantitative skills
- Working knowledge of GAAP principles
- Organized
- Responsible
- Ability to manage multiple projects
- Thoroughness
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Adept at analyzing information
- Decision making skills
- Adaptive
- Strong negotiation skills
- Financial modeling skills
Qualifications
- BA or BS in economics, finance, accounting, economics, or related field
- 3-5 years’ construction accounting experience a plus
- Excel knowledge is mandatory and Sharepoint experience is a plus
- Creation of key performance indicators relative to our mission is required
- Prior military Comptroller Officer or Finance NCO acceptable
- Able to satisfactorily pass a Criminal History Check to include sex offender registry, State Police, and FBI.
Benefits
SBP Provides:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Options
- PTO
- 401k
- Employer Paid Short and Long-Term Disability