Temporary Junior Accountant

Temporary Junior Accountant

Department

Operations

Employment Type

Full-Time

Minimum Experience

Entry-level

Compensation

$35/hour

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, and we’re still just getting started.

We are truly changing the world one smile at a time!

As Smile Train’s Temporary Junior Accountant, you will play a critical hands-on role in supporting our global finance team during an exciting system-wide ERP conversion. Working alongside our finance staff, you will help bridge the gap between accounting data and operational performance by maintaining clean financial records, running essential reports, and assisting with data quality control. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented accounting professional or recent graduate eager to gain practical experience in global non-profit finance and accounting, data analysis, and system implementation.

Period of Employment:
September 2026 – April 2027

Typical hours per week: 35

Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

• 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.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, detail-oriented, and analytical professional with strong organizational and communication skills. This role requires an eagerness to learn financial processes, clean and organize transactional data, and assist in running reports that translate numbers into clear insights for cross-functional teams. A strong work ethic, high accuracy in data entry, and adaptability during system changes are key to success in this role.

• 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…