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About the Role
The Assistant Accounting Manager is responsible for supporting the Accounting Manager and Finance Director in accounting responsibilities including financial analysis, reconciliations, reporting, grant compliance oversight, and payroll oversight and processing. This role will supervise an Accounting Support Specialist and will report to the Accounting Manager. As a member of the management team, this position plays a key role in building and sustaining the appropriate organizational culture to attain the organization’s goals and objectives, in the spirit of the organization’s mission, vision and values. The Assistant Accounting Manager will support all areas of the Fiscal Team, focusing on accounting processes, grant compliance and reporting, and payroll oversight and processing. This position contributes to resource development efforts by working with the Finance Director, Management, and other leaders in developing resource development strategies to further strengthen long-term growth goals to increase and maintain excellent legal advocacy client services to individuals with a disability across Texas.
Responsibilities
- Supervise, coach, mentor, hire, train, and manage assigned staff members.
- Assist the Accounting Manager to manage day-to-day accounting operations and ensure redundant process backup for critical operations.
- Provide complex and high-level financial support to executive leadership through tasks such as preparing financial reports, timesheet and payroll processing, and grant compliance support reporting.
- Maintain tracking and recording of the accumulation and use of vacation, holiday, sick day, and miscellaneous leaves of absence and other program vendors.
- Appropriately prioritize and assign tasks and multi-task numerous responsibilities in a timely manner.
- Assist with organizing, coordinating, and producing complex agency, state, federal, and regulatory financially based reports by collecting, tracking, and summarizing data from multiple sources.
- Ensure compliance with budget limits and financial policies and procedures.
- Establish personal credibility throughout the organization to be an effective manager.
- Maintain thorough and complete records; produce and maintain quality, error-free materials both printed and electronic.
- Effectively and regularly communicate with employees, vendors, management, and external volunteer leadership at all organizational levels.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of information when required.
- Assist in assessing the organization’s culture and health, reporting consolidated feedback and trends to fiscal and senior leadership with recommendations for interventions.
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the board of directors and employees at all levels.
- Continuously evaluate and analyze team operations, resources, and technology, implementing solutions to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and customer service.
- Apply the principles of the organization’s vision and values in all work-related business and interactions.
- Perform other duties as requested or required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Public Administration, or a related field and two (2) years of relevant experience working with varied sources of funding or grant or contract funding; or Four (4) years of equivalent related experience.
- Knowledge of basic accounting principles and financial accounting, reconciliations, reporting, payroll processing oversight, grant fiscal oversight compliance reporting, or the ability to acquire such knowledge within a reasonable period of time.
- Ability to analyze information, identify issues, and support development of effective strategies.
- Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences using a variety of communication methods.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic work environment.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
- Enthusiastic to perform as a hands-on leader of the team.
- High level of commitment to service excellence.
- High degree of integrity, ethics, and judgment.
- Proficiency in Accounting applications and Payroll applications and Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Experience working in an accounting department.
- Experience working with various sources of funding with compliance and reporting requirements.
- Familiarity with grant or contract management.
- Works at least two (2) days in the Austin office.
- Uses computers approximately seven to eight (7 to 8) hours per day.
- Uses telephone, virtual online, Teams, and email to communicate with staff, vendors, and other professionals, approximately one to two (1 to 2) hours per day.
- Spends approximately one to three (1 to 3) hours per week in meetings.
- Sits approximately seven to eight (7 to 8) hours per day.
- Requires working under a moderate degree of stress (time constraints, deadlines, multi-tasking high-level projects and issues, complex issues; and conflict resolution).
Skills
- Financial analysis
- Reconciliations
- Reporting
- Grant compliance oversight
- Payroll oversight and processing
- Supervision
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Hiring
- Training
- Management
- Financial support
- Record keeping
- Communication
- Prioritization
- Task assignment
- Multi-tasking
- Data collection
- Data tracking
- Data summarization
- Budget compliance
- Policy adherence
- Interpersonal skills
- Teamwork
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Follow-through
- Leadership
- Service excellence
- Integrity
- Ethics
- Judgment
- Accounting applications
- Payroll applications
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Grant management
- Contract management
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Onsite (at least two days per week in Austin office)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Assistant Manager
- Management
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Public Administration, or a related field
About the Company
- DRTx is dedicated to providing excellent legal advocacy client services to individuals with a disability across Texas.