Finance Manager

POSITION SUMMARY

Do you have the rare superpower of balancing both numbers and creativity? Can you design smarter workflows, keep systems running like clockwork, and make sure everything operates smoothly so the rest of the team can focus on the mission? If spreadsheets and business systems make your heart sing and you’re a master at making complex processes feel effortless, we want you to join us as a Finance Manager at Watershed Community Development in a role that combines the responsibilities of a full-charge bookkeeper with the ability to build and maintain business workflows and technology systems.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain full-cycle accounting including AP/AR, payroll, journal entries, bank reconciliations, month-end close procedures, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly financial reports for internal stakeholders
• Support budget and grant tracking including managing the fiscal sponsorship programs.
• Assist with annual audit and preparation of Form 990
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and internal financial controls.
• Develop, document, and maintain efficient business workflows across finance, administration, and program operations functions.
• Recommend and implement technology tools (e.g., cloud accounting, time tracking, expense management)
• Serve as a key resource for staff onboarding to finance/admin systems.
• Coordinate with external vendors and service providers as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of accounting experience, preferably in a nonprofit or mission-driven organization
• Demonstrated experience as a full-charge bookkeeper or equivalent accountability with additional experience improving business workflows or implementing administrative systems.
• Advanced knowledge of QuickBooks Online. Proficient with Microsoft software systems including Teams, SharePoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• Experience with AppFolio, Gusto, Bill.com, Concur, Little Green Light (CRM) or other similar business tools preferred.
• Ability to effectively communicate in a variety of ways with diverse groups of people including experience supporting and collaborating with staff, board members, contractors, tenants, and community members.
• Organized, self-motivated, able to manage multiple priorities with high attention to detail.
• Ability to respond to stressful and/or quickly changing situations with grace and humor.

ABOUT US

Our mission is to build resilient communities, through affordable placemaking and placekeeping in the Duwamish Valley. We create at the intersection of the arts, equity, and collective well-being.

• Watershed Community Development is a community-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that operates Equinox Studios, a complex of over 170 artist and artisan workspaces. Watershed is preparing to build over 600 units of workforce housing and community space along 4th Avenue S. in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle.
• We center folks who live and work in the Duwamish Valley; BIPOC individuals; artists; and those who come from communities that have been, or are at risk of being, displaced from this region.
• We are passionate about creative expression, affordable housing, and the arts.
• We value transparency, patience, imagination, humor, collaboration, and intentionality.
• We are in start-up mode and figuring out how to actualize all our dreams of affordability and community.
• We strive to amplify diverse voices and experiences, prioritize equitable practices and processes, and create an inclusive culture of care and belonging.
• We encourage anyone from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply.
• We acknowledge that we are on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Coast Salish People past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself and their stewardship.