Accounts Receivable Specialist

Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

Reporting to: Director of Operations

Compensation: $33.65-$36.00, Full-time, Non-exempt

Start Date: June 2025

Application Deadline: Friday, May 9th

About Climate Solutions

As a Northwest-based nonprofit for over twenty-five years, Climate Solutions' mission is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Climate Solutions has a vision of a thriving, equitable Northwest, powered by clean energy, inspiring the transition to sustainable prosperity across the country and beyond. Climate Solutions advances local, regional, and state action on climate and clean energy through championing transformational policies and market-based innovations; catalyzing powerful partnerships and a diverse movement for action and accountability; and communicating a bold vision for solutions at the scale required by climate science. For more information about Climate Solutions, visit www.climatesolutions.org.

About the Opportunity

Climate Solutions is looking for an Accounts Receivable Specialist who wants to use their accounting superpowers to advance solutions to the climate crisis, climate justice, and equity. This position is responsible for processing and documenting all income for the organization, generating invoices, and entering data into Quickbooks. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic nonprofit environment, passionate about using their accounting skills to end the climate crisis, and excited to work in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.

KEY PRIORITIES

Accounts Receivable

• Perform general bookkeeping tasks, particularly accounts receivable, donations, processing credit cards, deposits, and data entry into QuickBooks for Climate Solutions, Climate Solutions Action Fund, and Climate Solutions Action Fund PAC.
• Organize and maintain agency’s accounts receivable records.
• Work closely with the development team on donations and other program managers on invoicing and other forms of income.
• Generate invoices for the Climate Solutions Action Fund monthly.
• Reconcile donations with the development team.
• Back up Finance Analyst in accounts payable
• Track staff lobbying reporting.
• Maintain books in an ethical, legal and transparent manner, according to general accounting practices.
• Provide excellent customer service to both colleagues and external customers.
• Maintain confidentiality of donor records and other information.
• Compile Lobbying information for reporting

Organizational Participation

• Participate in Climate Solutions staff meetings, trainings, racial equity conversations, and team meetings. Lead or coordinate meetings when appropriate.
• Incorporate Climate Solutions’ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion commitments, Commitment to Leading our Work with a Racial Equity Lens, and Climate Solutions’ values into all aspects of the job.
• Meet staff reporting deadlines for program, development, and administrative tasks
• Additional duties may be assigned within the course of the work such as providing excellent customer service internally, participating in relevant meetings, travelling to Portland to maintain a positive working relationship with Oregon Staff, and more.

DEMONSTRATED COMPETENCIES

Skills and Knowledge:

Knowledge of:

• Basic principles and practices of accounting for a nonprofit agency.
• Basic records keeping systems.
• Quickbooks software application, including data entry.
• Proficient writing, editing, presentation, verbal and analytical skills.
• Setting priorities and manage multiple short-term and long-term projects simultaneously.

Ability to:

• Provide excellent customer service to both internal colleagues and external customers.
• Maintain high levels of patience and persistence with a variety of personalities.
• Perform basic bookkeeping.
• Maintain records keeping systems.
• Maintain confidentiality of business records and other information.
• Able to track and complete multiple projects while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• Work with a high level of detail.
• Work effectively both independently, with minimum supervision, and with a team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Be collaborative in your approach to your work and in your relationships with your colleagues.
• Operate desktop computer and Microsoft Windows and Office Software, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and specialized software applications in a network environment

Experience:

• 1 year of experience in bookkeeping or accounting.
• A demonstrated commitment to racial justice and the urgency of confronting institutional racism and inequity within our systems. A demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture.

Climate Solutions recognizes that institutional racism, including systems and behaviors that maintain white power and privilege, exists within our organization, the broader climate and environmental movement, and throughout society. We also recognize that the impacts of the climate crisis, pollution from fossil fuels, and the costs of proposed solutions fall disproportionately on communities of color, low income, Tribal Nations, and frontline communities, both in our region and across the world. This is a barrier to a more equitable future and our ability to achieve our mission.

Climate Solutions has chosen to lead our work with a racial equity lens as a strategy to address all forms of oppression. Climate Solutions is committed to equal opportunity in employment and promotion for all qualified persons without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, military or veteran status, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, pregnancy and childbirth, family responsibilities, or any other basis protected by applicable laws, regulations, or guidelines relating to discrimination in employment.