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Accounts Receivable Associate Specialist

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Washington, DC, USA
Full-time

Serves as the primary contact for the Accounts Receivable department regarding invoice creation, grant receipts, pledge management, and approvals and signatures. Ensures financial revenue transactions are processed accurately, efficiently and within established deadlines.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Responsible for the daily interface and posting of all incoming data from the Fundraising Operations Donor Database into Oracle Financials, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of all data, including maintaining deposit log sheets, reconciling the two systems on a daily basis and at month end.
  • Collects of deposit information, including outside vendors, daily in-house deposit, credit card transactions, wires and ACH transfers.
  • Ensures the accurate reconciliation of the general ledger against the daily deposits and certifies that monthly revenue general ledger detail reconciles to the bank deposits for the monthly close. Prepares monthly journal entries as needed.
  • Ensures revenue processing and procedures are adhered to and identifies opportunities for improving internal controls. Recommends and implements changes to facilitate smooth and accurate workflow and communication.
  • Creates and monitors invoices and payments, processes the monthly USAID drawdown and ensures that accounting principles generally accepted in the United States are adhered to. Maintains the accounts receivables departmental audit files.
  • Works with staff to ensure audit files are maintained for financial transactions.
  • Distributes the weekly petty cash and assists with the yearly external audit schedules.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
Educational Background: 
A Bachelor's in Accounting or a Business related curriculum is required.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Must be well-versed in Oracle Financials and Team Approach or similar database system, requires demonstrated proficiency in computerized record keeping or gift accounting and at least 2 years of accounting experience in AR.
  • Excellent organizational and analytical skills with emphasis on ability to set and manage a multitude of priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work effectively with a wide range of staff and vendors.
  • Hands-on experience in recognizing and recording donor revenue.
Job Function: 

Organization Info

World Wildlife Fund

Overview
Headquarters: 
Washington, DC, United States
Founded: 
1991
About Us
Mission: 

For 50 years, WWF has been protecting the future of nature. The world's leading conservation organization, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally.

WWF's unique way of working combines global reach with a foundation in science, involves action at every level from local to global, and ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that meet the needs of both people and nature.

Programs: 

WWF works to: 

  • Conserve the world's most important forests to sustain nature's diversity, benefit our climate, and support human well-being
  • Safeguard healthy oceans and marine livelihoods
  • Secure water for people and nature
  • Protect the worlds most important species
  • Drive sustainable food systems to conserve nature and feed humanity
  • Create a climate-resilient and zero-carbon world, powered by renewable energy

These things are not just “nice to have". . . they are “need to haves." They are the things that make it possible for us to live. And so, to ensure our very survival, they must be kept safe.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Oct 17 2018
Active Until: 
Nov 17 2018
Hiring Organization: 
World Wildlife Fund
industry: 
Nonprofit