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Accounting and Grants Manager
Global Financial Integrity (GFI) is a Washington, DC-based think tank specializing in research and advocacy related to curtailing illicit financial flows. GFI is a global leader in promoting transparency in the international financial system as a way to facilitate global economic development and reduce financial crime, money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption. GFI seeks a talented, motivated individual for the position of Accounting and Grants Manager.
Qualifications for the position include:
- Prepare and post general ledger entries and reconcile bank statements
- Ensure expenses posted to general ledger relate to appropriate grants
- Reconcile general ledger accounts and create reclass journal entries when necessary
- Maintain general ledger and prepare monthly and year-end reports
- Assist in preparing quarterly financial reviews, year-end audit and tax return preparation
- Build and maintain reports utilizing QuickBooks accounting software and spreadsheets
- Assist in creating the yearly budget and projections
- Perform year-to-year and budget-to-actual variance analysis including written explanations
- Prepare vendor payments on-line for approval by President & CEO
- Prepare monthly payroll, track vacation time, make insurance and retirement account payments
- Execute expense reimbursements in a timely manner
- Work with policy staff to prepare budgets for grant proposals
- Ensure payment requests are made to donor governments in timely manner
- Prepare and ensure accuracy of financial reports to donor governments
- Ensure that payments to all organizational partners and consultants are made in a timely manner
- Generate ad-hoc reports as requested
- Occasional HR duties (ex. onboard new employees with health coverage etc.)
- Additional duties as assigned by President & CEO
Required Education & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Proven work experience as Accounting Manager, Grant Manager etc
- 5+ years of relevant accounting experience
- QuickBooks experience is a must
- Experience with budget preparation and financial reporting for government grants
- Experience working with accounting staff of NGOs outside the U.S.
- Detail oriented
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products, particularly Excel and Word
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal/collaboration skills
- Strong analytical skills required
- Ability to multi-task and manage tight deadlines
Salary and Benefits
This is a full-time, permanent position. Salary is $100,000 (if all requirements are fulfilled) annually plus an excellent benefit package including 3 weeks’ vacation the first year plus the last week of the year paid time off for all staff; fully paid HMO for the employee; vision and dental coverage; life insurance and opportunity to invest in a retirement plan with GFI matching up to 5% of salary beginning in Year 3.
Location
Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. This will be verified with the preferred candidate before any offer is finalized.
This is a hybrid (home and office) position based in Washington, DC.
How to apply
To apply, please submit the following via email:
- cover letter
- resume
- three professional references including reference name, firm name, reference email, phone number and relationship to reference (ex. supervisor).
Applications submitted without this information will not be considered. Send applications to accounting@gfintegrity.org with Accounting and Grants Manageras the subject line. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled with interviews starting as soon as eligible candidates are identified.
No phone calls please.
No internships are available yet.
This year, Global Financial Integrity, Academics Stand Against Poverty and Yale’s Global Justice Program will be awarding the eleventh annual Amartya Sen Prizes to the two best original essays examining one particular component of illicit financial flows, the resulting harms, and possible avenues of reform. Essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a first prize of USD 5,000 and a second prize of USD 3,000. Winning essays must be available for publication in Journal Academics Stand Against Poverty. Past winners are not eligible.
Illicit financial flows are explicitly recognized as an obstacle to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and singled out as target #4 of SDG 16. They are defined as cross-border movements of funds that are illegally earned, transferred, or used – such as funds earned through illegal trafficking in persons, drugs or weapons; funds illegally transferred through mispriced exchanges (e.g., among affiliates of a multinational firm seeking to shift profits to reduce taxes); goods misinvoiced or funds moved in order to evade taxes; and funds used for corruption of or by public or corporate officials.
Components of illicit financial flows can be delimited by sector or geographically. Delimitation by sector might focus your essay on some specific activity, business or industry – such as art, real estate, health care, technology, entertainment, shipping, weapons, agriculture, sports, gaming, education, politics, tourism, natural resource extraction, banking and financial services – or on an even narrower subsector such as the diamond trade, hunting, insurance, or prostitution. Delimitation by geography might further narrow the essay’s focus to some region, country, or province.
Your essay should describe the problematic activity and evaluate the adverse effects that make it problematic. You should estimate, in quantitative terms if possible, the magnitude of the relevant outflows as well as the damage they do to affected institutions and populations. This might include harm from abuse, exploitation and impoverishment of individuals, harm through subdued economic activity and reduced prosperity, and/or harm through diminished tax revenues that depress public spending.
Your essay should also explain the persistence of the harmful activity in terms of relevant incentives and enabling conditions and, based on your explanation, propose plausible ways to curtail the problem. Such reform efforts might be proposed at diverse levels, including supranational rules and regimes, national rules, corporate policies, professional ethics, individual initiatives, or any combination thereof. The task is to identify who has the responsibility, the capacity and (potentially) the knowledge and motivation to change behavior toward effective curtailment. Special consideration will be given to papers that provide a detailed description of how change may come about in a particular geographical or sectoral context.
We welcome authors from diverse academic disciplines and from outside the academy. Please send your entry by email attachment on or before 31 August 2024 to Tom Cardamone at SenPrize@gfintegrity.org.
While your message should identify you, your essay should be stripped of self-identifying references, formatted for blind review.