Senior Accountant

POSITION TITLE

Senior Accountant

REPORTS TO

Director of Finance

DEPARTMENT

Finance

SUPERVISES

None

UPDATED

April 2024

SALARY

$78,000 - $83,012.80

Position Summary

MoPOP is seeking a dynamic Senior Accountant to join the Finance team! This position supports the Director of Finance in generating complete and accurate financial outputs, ensuring timely compliance filings, and maintaining strong internal controls. The Senior Accountant has keen attention to detail, understands and is up to date on core accounting standards, and upholds internal process, procedure, and best practices to streamline the organization’s financial accountabilities. The Senior Accountant works alongside the finance team and across departments to steward the organization through monthly close and annual audits.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, at least 3-days onsite. This role may require some evenings and weekends.

Essential Job Duties (other duties as assigned)

• Facilitate the monthly and annual close, ensuring accuracy and compliance with GAAP and regulatory requirements.
• Assist the Director of Finance in designing and maintaining accounting processes and internal controls.
• Act as a resource to MoPOP staff, assisting with questions about accounting and recording of transactions.
• Prepare and file all local and state tax returns.
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations for all active bank accounts.
• Provide oversight and review function over all reconciliations, month end/annual close procedures, journal entries, payables, etc., in coordination with the Finance team.
• Analyze and evaluate data and oversee preparation of interim and annual financial statements and reports, ensure timely distribution.
• Assist the Director of Finance in designing and building financial analysis and reporting for all departments.
• Assist with forecasting and financial modeling.
• Prepare, review, and process journal entries when appropriate.
• Assist with the annual budget process.
• Support our internal culture which inspires and empowers our staff to live our mission to its highest standards.
• Contribute to a consistent customer service standard across all departments.
• Work to ensure customer service is ingrained at the core of the team and is reflected outward to our guests and other staff.
• Commitment to participating in anti-racism work, learning about the ways institutional racism impacts the workplace, and supporting teammates in operationalizing DEIA strategies in the department.

Preferred/Desired Qualifications:

• Four (4) or more years of related experience, within a not-for-profit environment preferred.
• A degree in accounting or a related field or equivalent job experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of non-profit GAAP accounting required.
• Experience in public accounting and/or CPA license preferred.
• Excellent technical skills: ability to design and maintain complex financial planning models which create quality financial recommendations.
• Excellent organizational skills: ability to manage a continuous workflow in a high volume, multi-tasking environment.
• Excellent communication skills: ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from peers, staff members, and the general public.
• High proficiency with Excel; proficiency in Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Outlook. Great Plains accounting software experience or other financial software experience a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment with a dynamic range of individuals.

Benefits

This regular full-time position includes Medical/Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Life/AD&D/LTD insurance, 3.08 hours of accrued Vacation per bi-weekly pay period, Seattle Sick/Safe, 2-7 Floating Holidays dependent on hire date, 8 Company Holidays paid throughout the year, EAP, 401k plan with vested match schedule once eligible, and subsidized transportation benefits for Orca Pass or parking.

Why MoPOP

We’re really glad you’re thinking about joining the team at MoPOP! We believe pop culture is a universal language capable of building connections across a range of people, no matter our differences in race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability, education, socio-economic status, ethnicity, country of origin, or any other characteristic that makes us who we are. For more than twenty years, we have been showcasing how music, film, fashion, video games, sports, and more spark those connections and create a lasting cultural impact.

MoPOP provides both a physical space and an emotional and intellectual opportunity for people from any background to explore, find and build community, and recognize their own creative potential. This applies not only to our guests, but also to our staff — be it in designing an educational program to engage the next generation of creators, trying to reach a new audience with a marketing initiative, preserving an artifact in our collection, or providing excellent customer service to a visitor. If this sounds like something you’d be into, we’d love to hear from you!

MoPOP’s Mission and Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility 

Our mission is to make creative expression a life-changing force by offering experiences that inspire and connect our communities. A nonprofit grounded in five core values — open arms, creative exchanges, light bulb moments, pursuing excellence, and excitement — MoPOP is actively committed to ongoing learning in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). In partnership with our community, we hope to also develop safe spaces for their application. This includes taking steps to continue increasing our awareness of institutional “-isms,” as well as uncovering and undoing the ways they show up in museum culture. We recognize this is a process that requires intentionality, energy, and resources, and we are developing a DEIA framework that can cultivate a work environment and museum experience that is truly welcoming for all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having staff, interns, and volunteers with diverse backgrounds enables us to better meet our mission and encourage BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA+ individuals to apply. We acknowledge that our work to build safe spaces and better systems for traditionally marginalized groups is ongoing and will require constant vigilance and expect all MoPOP employees to be part of our DEIA journey.

Please email jobs@MoPOP.org if you need reasonable accommodations during the application or hiring process.

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