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About the Role
Smile Train is seeking a Temporary Junior Accountant to support its global finance team during an ERP conversion. This hands-on role involves maintaining financial records, running reports, and assisting with data quality control, offering practical experience in non-profit finance, data analysis, and system implementation.
Responsibilities
- Enter, code, and track daily financial transactions and vendor invoices accurately within the accounting system.
- Process corporate credit card statements, out-of-pocket employee expense reimbursements, and accounts payable (AP) items.
- Assist in preparing and setting up vendor payments via ACH and wire transfers.
- Organize and maintain digital filing systems for vendor records, banking details, and tax documentation.
- Assist with financial data entry, data cleaning, and record deduplication ahead of system migration.
- Perform basic Quality Control (QC) checks on migrated financial data to ensure accuracy between legacy records and the new system.
- Help cross-reference and verify general ledger (GL) entries, vendor list information, and historical transactions.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations and routine general ledger reviews under supervision.
- Assist with basic month-end schedules, including prepaid expenses, accrued expenses, fixed assets, and AP aging reports.
- Review transactions against department budgets to ensure proper account and cost-center coding.
- Provide administrative support to the finance team by gathering audit schedules and pulling supporting documentation.
- Execute other administrative duties and special data-entry or reporting projects assigned by supervisors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative field.
- 0-2 years of relevant accounting experience, ideally from a related internship or entry-level role.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, Complex formulas).
- Base understanding of accounting standards and accrual basis accounting concepts.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and analytical professional with strong organizational and communication skills.
- Eagerness to learn financial processes, clean and organize transactional data, and assist in running reports.
- Strong work ethic, high accuracy in data entry, and adaptability during system changes.
Skills
- Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, Complex formulas)
- Accounting standards
- Accrual basis accounting concepts
- Data entry
- Data cleaning
- Reporting
- Financial data analysis
Location
- Midtown Manhattan office
Work Type
- Temporary
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Junior
- 0-2 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $35/hour
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, pharmacy, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Generous PTO package, paid holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave and family care benefits
- Free access to professional mental health counseling
- Annual professional development stipend
About the Company
- Smile Train is the world’s leading cleft-focused organization.
- Our vision is a world where everyone has access to safe, high-quality comprehensive cleft care and can live a full and healthy life.
- We train and support doctors and other medical professionals to provide our patients with free, life-changing, comprehensive cleft treatment.
- This sustainable model has allowed us to support more than 2 million cleft surgeries in 95+ countries since our founding in 1999.
- We are truly changing the world one smile at a time!
Equal Opportunity
- Smile Train is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage candidates from all groups and communities to apply.