Nonprofit Bookkeeper

About 100 Degrees Consulting:
100 Degrees Consulting provides CFO and bookkeeping services to visionary leaders. We help nonprofit organizations globally with all things finance; accounting, bookkeeping, audit, board reporting, financial analysis, budgeting, cash flow, 990s, and compliance. We give leaders clarity and confidence in their numbers so they can make a bigger impact on the world.

We are seeking a high-performing Nonprofit Bookkeeper to join our team on a contract basis to cover a maternity leave, with potential for a longer-term engagement. This role is critical to ensuring continuity of service for our nonprofit clients and may evolve into an ongoing relationship based on mutual fit and business needs.

We serve our clients with knowledge & expertise, passion for their mission, dependability, and approachability. We have high standards, high expectations, and we move quickly. We have extraordinary capacity and expect the same from everyone on the team. Most importantly, we love what we do and who we serve.


Nonprofit Bookkeeper Job Overview:
This is a remote, client-facing contract position that would directly manage 6-8 nonprofit client accounts. We’re looking for a detail-oriented and proactive bookkeeper with a strong passion for supporting nonprofit missions and a commitment to exceptional client service.

The initial contract period will cover ~5 months, with the possibility of extension or transition into a long-term contract role.


Job Responsibilities:
- Support client monthly close process in Quickbooks Online including bank, credit card, and payment platform reconciliations
A/P and A/R reconciliations for clients
- Fundraising database reconciliations for clients
- Make journal entries for clients
- Process payroll for clients 
- Process A/P and A/R for clients
- Receipt management for clients
- Prepare and file 1099s for clients 
- Enter budgets into QBO for clients
- Track restricted grants in QBO
- Recommend and implement client QBO improvements
- Generate financial reports, including customized dashboards with graphs and charts, for clients
- Directly interact with clients via email and Zoom meetings
- Support 100 Degrees Consulting CFOs with data entry, financial analysis, and other work as needed 
Use tools like Keeper, Slack, and email to manage organization tasks and timelines
- Liaise and communicate with 100 Degrees team via email, Slack, and Zoom to share knowledge, improve processes, and share wins and challenges
- Stay updated on nonprofit accounting principles and best practices, implementing new techniques as needed


Required Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a bookkeeper in the nonprofit sector
- Experience with managing restricted funding
- Experience with complicated cost and payroll allocations
- Experience with audit support
- Proficiency in accounting software, financial tools, and software like QuickBooks Online, Google Sheets, Excel, SaasAnt, Google Workspace, Dropbox, Expensify, Slack, Keeper, Zoom, Gusto, ADP, BILL.com, Ramp, Melio as well as experience with software integrations with Quickbooks Online
- Exceptional client service skills with a proactive approach to solving problems
- Ability to seamlessly manage a roster of 6-8 clients and their individual priorities and needs
- Are a skilled, professional, and confident writer and communicator

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Quickbooks Desktop to Online migrations
- Experience with books consolidation
- Experience working with nonprofit organizations in the international development space
- Experience with providing bookkeeping support to multiple nonprofit organizations simultaneously

Qualities We’re Looking For:
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Organized and detail-oriented under pressure
- Are meticulous about accuracy and ensure anything you submit has been checked and double-checked 
- Hate being late and never miss a deadline
- Excellent time management skills
- Able to juggle multiple clients and their priorities, deadlines, and communication
- Communicate proactively and clearly with questions and updates 
- Believe that no journal entry is too big or too complicated and enjoy highly detailed work 
- Energized by providing clients with best-in-class bookkeeping 
- Hardworking, highly self-motivated, and a quick learner
- Proactive, willing to learn new things and energized to grow in your role
- Great sense of humor, high energy, and enthusiasm for working on a small and growing team

Education and Experience:
- Degree in accounting or related field is preferred
- 3 years experience providing bookkeeping to multiple US nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, departments, or projects simultaneously required
- Preferably experienced in working with organizations with an average annual revenue of $1 million - $5 million

Physical Requirements: 
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working at a computer.
- Position calls for repeated and coordinated use of your hands, wrists, and fingers to use and type on a computer keyboard, requiring the use of fine motor skills
- Position calls for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Benefits:
- Client Referral Bonus
- Team Member Referral Bonus

Logistics: 
- This is a full-time, international contractor position with an initial contract of 3 months
- We offer a flexible, remote work environment.
- You must be available to respond to client communication and take meetings during regular business hours in the US, closely aligned with a 9am-5pm Eastern schedule.
- You have your own computer and reliable internet access.
- You maintain a workspace free of unnecessary distractions where client and internal calls may be taken in a professional manner.
- You are able to be on video chat for scheduled meetings.

To Apply:
- Send your resume and a cover letter to hello@100degreesconsulting.com
- Include a 2-3 minute video explaining a little bit about yourself and why you would be a great fit.
- Include “Nonprofit Bookkeeper” in the subject line.
- Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
- Applications submitted through onlinejobs.ph messenger will not be considered.

Interview Process:
- 30-minute screening interview with HR
- Brief bookkeeper knowledge & skills assessment
- 30-minute panel interview with Client Services Manager and Lead Bookkeeper (manager of this position)
- Reference Checks
- 30-minute interview with CEO
- Background check

Equal Opportunity:
100 Degrees Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, immigrant, bilingual, and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities. 100 Degrees is firmly committed to complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws and strictly prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race, creed, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, height, and/or weight, disability, gender identity or expression, medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS-related conditions, marital status, partnership status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, military status, arrest record and any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application. While performing the responsibilities of the job, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.


Wage Range: $8 - $10 per hour
The final wage will be determined based on several factors including experience, education, qualifications, as well as the need to maintain internal equity within the company.