Senior Staff Accountant

Overview

Job Summary:

Pace Center for Girls seeks a detail-oriented, mission-driven, and experienced Senior Staff Accountant to manage and coordinate all financial activities across our centers. Reporting directly to the Finance Director, the Senior Staff Accountant will ensure fiscal and regulatory accountability, providing critical support to the organization's financial health and sustainability. The Senior Staff Accountant will play a vital role in maintaining the financial integrity of the organization, supporting its mission, and fostering organizational excellence.

Who We Are:

At Pace we transform girls’ lives through academic and counseling programs based on girl-centered, strength-based and trauma-informed framework. Team members create a safe place for girls to learn, process, heal and begin again. Founded in 1985, Pace Center for Girls is a nonprofit organization that believes all girls, regardless of their story, deserve a safe and supportive space where they can become strong, compassionate and successful women.

Our Culture:
At Pace, our culture is built on core beliefs that foster a supportive, mission-driven, and empowering environment where girls can thrive and reach their full potential. Our culture is rooted in the following foundational behaviors:

• Caring – We are warm, sincere, compassionate, and collaborative, fostering an environment of support and connection.
• Purposeful – We are focused on our mission and committed to social responsibility, ensuring our efforts make a meaningful impact.
• Learning Oriented – We are open, inventive, and exploratory, continuously seeking growth and improvement.
• Results Driven – We are focused on achieving goals and measurable success, ensuring accountability and progress.
• Girl-Centered – The ways that girls learn and develop are unique. We've created an environment that responds to their needs so they can feel safe enough to develop meaningful and trusting relationships while embracing their capabilities, strengths and autonomy.
• Using Your Strengths – Every girl brings something exceptional to the table. We focus on developing these special characteristics. By supporting a girl's talents and positive attributes we help her achieve her goals.
• Understanding Trauma – Trauma can alter the course of a girl's life. We recognize that trauma may be the root cause of unhealthy behaviors, which is why we work hard to help heal and empower girls.

What We Offer:

• Growth and Development - Competitive salaries, ongoing learning and development opportunities, and subject-specific instructional coaching to support growth and success.
• Work Life Balance – 20 paid time off days, 14 paid national holidays, and 5 wellness days. Center-based team members observe 230 academic days and 20 in-service planning days. Teachers may receive an additional 2 weeks of paid time off after one year.
• Comprehensive Benefits - Full-time team members are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, FSA/HSA, and a 403(b) retirement plan. Eligibility varies by hours worked.
• Mental Health and Well-Being - Access to wellness resources, counseling, leadership coaching, mindfulness resources, and more.

• Manage and coordinate all financial activities across Pace centers, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Oversee accounting functions including property, plant and equipment, investments, insurance accounts, in-kind donations, special event transactions, and other specialized accounts.
• Perform monthly account reconciliations and allocations to ensure accuracy of financial statements and tax and regulatory returns.
• Prepare and submit required agency applications, reports, reviews, and documents.
• Support the budget and forecast process.

• Coordinate all major federal and state grant accounting and reporting.
• Serve as liaison between grantors and the agency; process monthly and quarterly claims and invoices; monitor accounts receivable aging.
• Prepare grant and contract financial reports accurately and in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain…