Junior Accountant / Bookkeeper

Job Title: Junior Accountant / Bookkeeper

Salary/ Hourly pay rate:  DOE, Salary + health 

Start Date:  ASAP

Position reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Hours per week: 20-30 (Part-time, remote)

Work remotely - wifi required

Get in on the ground floor of a promising nonprofit organization that brings real positive change to the world. Far Away Projects is looking for individuals with positive attitudes and diverse skill sets—the more effective you are, the more opportunity for growth there is for you! 

Background

Far Away is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports global social impact projects and grassroots efforts across the globe. We connect public benefit entrepreneurs to vital resources, tools, and developmental support. Our project leads come from around the world with powerful ideas to transform their local communities. We provide the necessary infrastructure to scale our social impact projects including fiscal sponsorship, digital tools, legal compliance, and technical support. 

Far Away exercises our non-profit framework as a fiscal sponsor entity. We are holistically organized to help projects launch an idea from a safe space with support towards funding, tools, governance advice, accounting and best practices. We serve as an incubator and partner, ready to foster growth to all qualifying projects at any stage of their development. Far Away enables projects to stay focused on the project delivery while overcoming any and all challenges that arise. We offer experienced and proven methods to help each project render the most sustainable, positive impact to their community or respective area of focus.

Far Away Provides

Infrastructure for change-making initiatives, fiscally sponsoring projects and providing nonprofit status.  

Range of Services: 

• Fiscal sponsorship 
• Funding resources 
• Legal compliance 
• Technical tools 
• Professional Coaching, Marketing & Fundraising
• Project support 

Far Away is a fast growing and nimble organization looking for people who are willing to dive in and join this lively culture of people dedicated to making the world a better place. We are a decentralized network of active change makers in the world, working hard on projects. We are looking to build out the support team to the projects and stakeholders. 

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Reports to Chief Financial Officer

• Properly records contributions, revenues, accounts payable/receivable and all other transactions to the company journal on a weekly basis.
• Properly records donor information and relevant documents (eg. checks, donor acknowledgement receipts, etc.) to company donor management system
• Properly records all wire transfers in appropriate log
• Processes payments and payroll
• Conducts banking activities
• Reconciles company journal and reports to third party records such as bank statements at month-end

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree with a concentration in Accounting 
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in the field of accounting
• Experience in accounting for nonprofit organizations preferred

(Work experience leniency for candidates who have earned a Bachelor Degree with a concentration in Accounting from an AACSB accredited business school.)

• Proficiency with MS Excel and standard accounting software
  • The Organization utilizes Aplos, MS Excel, DonorBox, & Google Sheets. 
• Strong understanding of the principles of fund accounting

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of accounting experience
• 2+ years of accounting for nonprofit organizations
• Wizard-like mastery of MS Excel

Personal

• Ability to take and give feedback constructively
• Integrity - one of our core values, we walk our talk. 
• Thrive while working remotely - self starter including delivering in a timely manner 
• A deep sense of dedication to working on the Sustainable Development Goals
• A dexterous intelligence that allows you to learn quickly, and solve hard problems independently and creatively
• A commitment to harmonious and productive collaboration
• Meticulous attention to detail in planning and procedure
• Enthusiasm for the Far Away Project mission and ethos
• A good fit with Far Away Project culture. Our culture is playful and informal, but we take our work and the responsibilities of it incredibly seriously. We support and care for each other as people and collaborators.

Professional

• Experience managing a complex work load and programming
• Ability to analyze and critically assess SGD research, and trends.
• An existing collaborative network
• Strong writing skills in English
• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research with limited supervision.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Systems thinking and solutions mindset.      
• Strong communication and writing skills.
• Able to persevere on longer-term tasks, despite competing daily demands.
• Strong collaborative skills and a demonstrated ability to form and maintain professional relationships and work effectively with others on a common task.
• Demonstrated knowledge of ethical practices and ability to appropriately handle confidential information.
• Exercises good judgment in communication and maintains a professional demeanor.
• Completes tasks independently, but knows when to ask for help.
• Able to maintain a calm demeanor and eager to face challenges.
• Proficiency with G Suite, Slack and Trello. 

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Fluency in multiple languages preferred.
• Familiarity with Word, Excel, Outlook and WordPress.
• Familiarity with technology solutions and platforms

 

Education

• College degree in a related discipline

Employment Terms

• All nationalities welcome
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Opportunity to work remotely most of the time, possibly some travel 

About Us

We believe that our interconnectedness should be celebrated. Addressing inequalities in systems must be acknowledged with grace and compassion for the greater good. Local issues are global issues, and we must act with agency to regenerate and heal our planet. 

Mission:

Our mission is to advance environmental sustainability, make education and science available to everyone, and increase the availability of resources to those in need. 

Far Away supports social impact projects in nearly every country in the world. We connect change-makers to vital funds, technical tools and support so that they can create change in their local community. 

We link donors, both individual and corporate, to project leads and their beneficiaries. We make it easy for them to partner, access and distribute sponsorship, and deliver their project. We specifically focus on projects with sustainable, regenerative and humanitarian purposes.

History

Origin Story: 

Far Away Projects was born from the generated possibility of Desiree Tavera, Founder and Executive Director, who was inspired while reading in her hotel room in Paris on November 14th of 2015. An otherwise unmemorable cab ride took her dangerously close to the Bataclan Theatre, one of the targets of the tragic Paris attacks. The books she found solace in the next day educated her on regenerative agriculture and solutions to the plastic waste crisis. Those books restored her hope in humanity. As she worked through the trauma, she discovered a deeper purpose, to create abundance and resilience for others. Upon returning home to San Francisco she founded Far Away Projects, a 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor established to support public benefit initiatives that are aligned with the UN’s SDGs. 

Ethos

Building an equitable and regenerative future

Our work focuses on the direction and blueprint outlined by the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals” The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve them all by 2030. (reference *un.org)

Contact: Interested candidates please email a CV/resume and 1 page cover letter to: hello@farawayproject.org 

Please no phone calls

**CV/resume AND cover letter required for consideration**

https://farawayproject.org/

Application Follow-up:

Far Away staff will respond if we see a good fit and want to explore further.

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

We celebrate diversity and demand equal opportunity employment. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Development work at the scale we aim to impact- will require a diverse and unprecedented workforce. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.