Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Reports to: Director of Finance and Operations

Status: 30 hours per week (Flexible M-F scheduling) / OT Non-Exempt (Hourly)

Compensation Range: $32.30 – 36.20 per hour, or approximately $50,394 - $56,476 per year, depending on qualifications and experience

About the Organization

Hunger Free Colorado, a statewide nonprofit organization, connects people to food resources to meet existing needs and drives policy, systems and social change to end hunger. As the state’s leading anti-hunger advocacy organization, Hunger Free Colorado is dedicated to achieving a future in which all Coloradans have equitable access to the nutritious food needed to thrive and reach their full potential.

The organization is committed to achieving racial, economic and food justice and seeks employees who share these values. In 2020, Hunger Free Colorado adopted a new vision for our staff experience: “Employees can exercise influence at all levels of the organization and are provided relevant and intentional opportunities to grow as professionals and people.”

About the Department

The Operations Department at Hunger Free Colorado plays a crucial role in advancing the organization's mission to end hunger by providing a strong foundation for its work. Our mission is to maximize the agency and impact of the Hunger Free Colorado team by building a robust infrastructure and modeling a lively culture that celebrates the diverse contributions within our organization. The department's responsibilities include managing database systems, overseeing financial operations, and coordinating daily activities. By ensuring effective processes, resources, and infrastructure, we support the organization in creating meaningful change. Through Salesforce management, office coordination, and financial leadership, we help every team member contribute to connecting Coloradans with food resources.

Job Summary

The Senior Accountant is responsible for maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring the timely processing of accounting and payroll functions. This role involves coding invoices, reconciling accounts, closing monthly books, and assisting with accounts receivable and compliance activities for federal grants. The Senior Accountant also oversees payroll processing, ensuring compliance with regulations and resolving employee inquiries. Additionally, they coordinate benefits administration, supporting employees with enrollment and changes while maintaining accurate records. The role includes assisting with audits and ensuring financial and payroll regulations compliance.

Responsibilities

Accounting

• Codes invoices, sets up new accounts, reconciles accounts, and closes the monthly books.
• Verifies payment of invoices associated with accounts payable and ensures payments are charged to the appropriate accounts.
• Assists with the preparation of monthly accounts receivable invoices.
• Reconciles bank accounts at least monthly, verifies deposits, and addresses inquiries from banks.
• Maintains the general ledger.
• Assists with compliance activities for federal government grants.
• Provides outside auditors with assistance; gathers necessary account information and documents to perform annual audit.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Payroll

• Implements, maintains, and reviews payroll processing and accounting systems to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.
• Ensures accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.
• Prepares and maintains accurate records and reports of payroll transactions.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and best practices.
• Responds to timekeeping, PTO, and payroll inquiries and support requests from managers and employees.
• Provides technical assistance for the Ready Pay Online (RPO) and NovaTime platforms.

Benefits Administration

• Coordinates annual Open Enrollment process:
  • Collaborates with brokerage team and the Director of Finance and Operations to provide training and materials for employees.
  • Utilizes benefits management system to gather election decisions.
  • Ensures accurate transfer of enrollment changes from the benefits management system into the HRIS and payroll system.
• Coordinates daily benefits processing:
  • Submits accurate and timely retirement deferral requests per paycheck.
  • Supports employees with mid-year updates to deferral amounts.
  • Supports employees with individual enrollment changes in benefits management system to ensure timely QLE processing.
  • Collaborates with executive leadership and the Director of Finance and Operations to process requests for professional development expenses, pay advances, etc.
  • Support the HR team with coordination of external leave or compensation claims, such as Workers Compensation, Colorado FAMLI, etc.
• Oversees general benefits administration and recordkeeping:
  • Oversees maintenance of employee benefits files, maintain benefits management database, and update employee payroll records with applicable benefits changes.
  • Ensures compliance with applicable government regulations.
  • Ensures the accuracy of all benefits enrollments in the HRIS.
  • Performs quality checks of benefits-related data.
  • Collaborates with the HR team to develop communication tools to enhance team understanding of the company's benefits package.
  • Responds to manager and employee support requests related to plan offerings, benefit utilization, status changes, and other general inquiries.

Other Duties

• Coordinates pay and benefits processing for new hires and exiting employees:
  • Supports hiring managers and HR team with new hire orientation related to payroll and benefits education.
  • Supports exiting employees with check-ins related to final pay and procedures for benefits continuation, transfer, etc.
  • Prepares estimates for, and ensures accurate payment of, final checks and applicable PTO payouts for exiting employees.
  • Submits timely report of exit in benefits management system to ensure that our COBRA administration vendor can fulfil compliance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline required.
• Three to five years of accounting experience required.
• Extensive knowledge of general financial accounting and nonprofit accounting.
• Understanding of and ability to adhere to generally accepted accounting principles.
• Extensive knowledge of payroll functions including preparation, balancing, internal control, and payroll taxes.
• Highly proficient with accounting software.
• Highly proficient with payroll processing platforms.
• Proficient with HRIS and benefits management systems.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment with colleagues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT accounting software.
• Proficient with Ready Pay Online (RPO) HRIS and payroll platform.
• Proficient with NovaTime PTO and timekeeping platform.
• Proficient with Bernie Portal benefits management system.
• Bilingual – Fluency in both English and Spanish.
• Experience working with a diverse and multilingual workforce.

Work Environment

• All positions are required to be Colorado-based. We operate in a hybrid fashion, both in-person and remotely through Microsoft office platforms. The number of weekly in-person days vary.
• We are a dynamic and diverse team representing varied racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds that engages in regular conversations about structural and historical inequities.

Compensation

Compensation for this position ranges from $32.30 - $36.20 per hour, or approximately $50,394 - $56,476 per year depending on qualifications and experience.

Benefits

Hunger Free Colorado offers an exceptional benefits package including vision, basic life, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance provided at no charge to employees. Also included are health, dental, critical illness, accident, and voluntary life insurance coverage with a generous subsidy for health insurance premiums. We also offer a retirement plan, paid vacation, sick leave, and a minimum of 11 paid holidays off per year.

For staff who have worked at least 6 months full time, professional development benefits are available. Hunger Free Colorado participates in the Colorado Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) Program, which provides partial income payments and job protection for eligible employees who are temporarily unable to work due to their or a family member’s qualifying medical or legal reason. Detailed benefits documents are available to interested candidates upon request.

Hunger Free Colorado is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and equitable work environment and we strongly encourage you to apply if you are part of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) and/or LGBTQIA community, are differently abled, a veteran, or are of diverse nationality or religion.