Senior Accountant

The Opportunity:Ashoka’s Finance Team plays an integral role in maintaining a strong financial infrastructure across more than 30 country offices. The Senior Accountant will support the Assistant Controller with core accounting operations, NetSuite transactions, month-end close, audit preparation, reconciliations, and reporting. This role strengthens Ashoka’s financial accuracy, controls, and compliance. This is a great opportunity to support the operational infrastructure of an organization with the ultimate goal of an Everyone a Changemaker world.What You'll Do:Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close processesPrepare and reconcile general ledger accounts (cash, AP, AR, accruals, intercompany, restricted funds)Post journal entries and maintain proper documentationMaintain AP/AR and banking activityUse NetSuite for daily accounting, reconciliations, and reportingSupport improvements to NetSuite workflows and internal controlsAssist with audit preparation, schedules, and documentationGenerate monthly and quarterly reports and support variance analysisContribute to process improvement and operational efficiencyAssist the Assistant Controller with special projects as assignedWhat You Bring:Minimum 7 years of accounting experienceExperience with NetSuite Experience with nonprofit and grant accountingExperience with multi-entity and international/intercompany transactionsExperience preparing audit schedules or supporting auditsStrong GAAP knowledge, analytical skills, and attention to detailAbility to work collaboratively across cultures and time zonesBachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA strongly preferredCore Criteria:Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life. Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context. Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second). Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy. Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in lifeAbout Ashoka:Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.