Staff Accountant

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Position Description: 

• Daily Treasury duties such as daily cash balance tracking and reconciling and assisting in forecasting the monthly cash needs outlook.
• Daily cash monitoring (deposits, operating and disbursement accounts) and filing deposits.
• Recording journal entries into Finance system
• Post customer payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card transactions and entering them into the general ledger or accounting software
• Bank reconciliation of fundraising account. Ensure monthly reconciliation with Development dept’s system.

• Bank reconciliation of payroll account.
• Enter data on invoices; ensure proper coding on documents
• Protect organization’s value by keeping information confidential
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities
• Processing and tracking CFO level vendors, special payments to other Executive requests and for all major construction contracts.
• Responsible for TD credit card imports, checking and approving TD Bank credit card users for the whole company.
• Prepare construction related claims for reimbursement from DASNY and other government contacts

• Enter workplans into Statewide Financial System (SFS) for new grants
• Assist Reqlogic users with issues, and questions about the program and coding.

• Other responsibilities include Regional Admin. Manager (RAM) level support of Finance Dept including: obtains certificates of insurance, workers comp, and disability for government contracts. Alert CFO to pending ReqLogic and UKG approvals. Tracking and submitting payroll into UKG payroll system for leadership. Receive, organize and distribute mail and sending vendor payments via FedEx. Organizing and filing CFO records. Maintaining calendars to coordinate workflow both internally and externally; planning and scheduling meeting, conferences, teleconferences and travel. Responsible for organizing and ordering Finance supplies.

Requirements: 

• Bachelors Degree Business Admin, Acounting, Business Management 
• Billing Government and private contracts, knowledge of electronic record system preferable, revenue and A/R recording & reconciliation, special projects.

Salary Range: $60,000-$75,000.

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming