Finance & Bookkeeping Volunteer – Be the Backbone of a Bold Movement

Volunteer Bookkeeper — San Quentin SkunkWorks

San Quentin SkunkWorks is an incarcerated-led innovation lab partnering with the Governor's Office, world-class coaches, educators, and visionaries to reshape the future of justice reform. Our work has been featured on the front page of the LA Times and profiled by CalMatters as a model for system-wide transformation. We're proving that incarcerated creators aren't the subjects of reform — they're the architects of it.

As our partnerships grow and new initiatives launch, strong financial infrastructure is essential to sustaining that trust. We're looking for an experienced volunteer bookkeeper to help us maintain it.

The Role

You'll manage San Quentin SkunkWorks' books — about 4–6 hours per month, flexible, and remote-friendly (with the option to visit San Quentin if you'd like to see the work firsthand). You'll report directly to the Executive Director and help reconcile accounts, support monthly reporting, and keep us audit-ready so our team can stay focused on changing prison culture.

What you'll do

• Reconcile accounts and track expenses in QuickBooks Online / Excel
• Support monthly reporting and board-ready financials
• Keep us compliant and audit-ready
• Build the financial backbone behind every breakthrough

What You Bring

You understand that clean books are the backbone of a trusted nonprofit. You take accuracy, documentation, and financial transparency seriously because you know they make everything else possible. You're comfortable managing the books for a small but growing nonprofit and can maintain reliable financial records with minimal oversight.

Ideally, you bring

• 5+ years of bookkeeping or accounting experience supporting a nonprofit, small business, or mission-driven organization
• Strong proficiency in QuickBooks Online, including reconciliations, chart of accounts management, and financial reporting
• Experience performing monthly bank and credit card reconciliations and maintaining accurate expense categorization
• Comfort preparing monthly financial reports (P&L, balance sheet, budget vs. actual) for leadership or board review
• Familiarity with nonprofit accounting practices, including restricted funds and grant-related tracking
• Strong working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets for supporting financial analysis and reporting
• Ability to maintain clean documentation and audit-ready records
• High integrity and discretion when handling financial information

Helpful but not required

• Experience supporting Form 990 preparation or annual audits
• Experience setting up or improving QuickBooks workflows and internal financial controls
• Prior work with nonprofits in the $250K–$1M budget range

The Impact

Your work will ensure that our books remain accurate, transparent, and audit-ready — so foundations, partners, and civic leaders can trust the integrity of the work being built inside San Quentin. By maintaining that financial backbone, you help our leadership team stay focused on designing and scaling the programs that are changing prison culture from the inside out.