Accounts Payable Specialist

Social Good Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to create and establish positive influences for individuals, communities, and the environment. Our goal is to sponsor projects that will help positively impact and develop local communities into healthier and happier places to live, work, and be.

We achieve this mission through the practice of efficient, effective, low-barrier, high-quality fiscal sponsorship. (Learn more about fiscal sponsorship.)

Beginning with one half-time employee in 2014 and zero revenue, Social Good Fund has now grown into a mature, full-service fiscal sponsorship organization with over 23 full-time core operations employees, over 600 sponsored project employees, and annual revenue of over $80M. We serve as fiscal sponsor to hundreds of nonprofit/charitable programs and projects across a wide diversity of program focus and content, throughout the US, Europe, and Africa.

Demand for our services continues to grow, as does the necessity for the organization to add capacity to meet the demand.

Though based in Richmond, CA, we are a 100% virtual office with all of our employees working from home/shared work spaces. Business hours are M - TH, 9a - 5p PST, with potential flexibility, depending on many factors. We are occasionally open on Fridays to make up for holidays that fall earlier in the week. In order to succeed in this role, you will need to have a space where you can work with a strong internet connection, and a comfort with, and preference for, working remotely. Although we are a remote organization, we try to meet annually with the internal SGF team at a location within the United States. Additional in-person meetings may take place as the need arises.

Our organizational approach applies both to how we practice fiscal sponsorship, and how we operate and work together to achieve our mission: It assumes best intentions and seeks to continuously act in good faith. We strive for efficiency in order to decrease barriers to realizing positive change in the world. We are a focused, friendly and helpful team, and looking for an equally similar person to join us. We have a strong sense of shared responsibility and are looking for someone who appreciates and wants to contribute to this environment.

The Job: A/P Specialist

The Accounts Payable Specialist will be a key member of the Accounts Team and assist in the AP process. This position is an exempt, full-time role and will report to the Controller. In order to be successful in this role, the candidate must have exceptional nonprofit financial experience combined with a strong customer service approach towards our fiscally-sponsored projects/project managers:

• Review and approve new vendor and vendor change requests
• Run TIN matches on domestic vendors and run OFAC results for international vendors
• Review invoice and reimbursement payment requests
• Serve as backup coverage for AP teammate
• Coordinate one-on-one with special initiative project leaders’ AP processes outside the normal AP routine
• Process project exit requests and coordinate payments according to our timely exit payment schedule
• Schedule disbursements for Model C projects and initiate appropriate grant payment amounts based on fund availability
• Participate in AP process improvements, including attending meetings with outside developers, and recommending improvements to the team
• Enforce contract payment requests align with start/end dates and totals of contract
• Communicate with other internal teams regarding vendors, reimbursements, and invoice payments
• Send and respond to emails from our shared team inbox
• Prepare annual 1099s and quarterly review of 1099 vendors
• Support with other various projects and/or tasks as needed

Required Skills, Knowledge, Approach:

The best candidate for this position will have a minimum of 3 or more years of accounts payable experience and be a self-starting, self-respecting, team-playing, positive-thinking, tech-savvy and consistent person with a passion for doing good in the world. The best candidate will also:

• Work well with people from diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities, vulnerable populations, and the international community
• Demonstrate an appreciation for the SGF work culture, which includes a commitment to focusing on an efficient and productive use of time management to honor a 4 day workweek
• Utilize AP software/processes that the Accounts Team has built from the ground up
• Maintain appropriate discretion regarding sensitive employee and organizational information
• Have a consistent and reliable workspace: home, shared workspace
• Must be a team player, flexible and present, with strong creative problem-solving skills
• Must be able to clearly and effectively communicate both orally and in writing
• Strong customer service skills both with vendors (payees) and projects supported
• Handle a large volume of work efficiently and with grace
• Maintain a sense of humor in the face of challenging interactions and situations
• Accept, appreciate and support the diversity and differences of the individuals and groups we work with
• Be familiar with Google documents
• Quickly learn online and digital systems that you are not familiar with
• Excellent attention to detail
• Be helpful and supportive of project goals

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates degree or higher
• Experience with nonprofit accounts payable processing
• Commitment to the nonprofit sector and charitable work

Social Good Fund provides medical, dental, and vision insurance (premiums are paid at 100% for employees and 40% for dependents). Employees have access to a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA), a Health Savings Account (HSA) for a High Deductible health plan, employer-sponsored short-term disability, employer-sponsored long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, and a 403b retirement account.

We value rest and sustainability. With that goal in mind, our team works a four-day workweek (32 hours per week Monday-Thursday). We offer unlimited PTO.