Job Openings

Staff Accountant

Position: Estimated 30 hrs/week
Must be in office two days a week; remote work negotiable

Position to be filled as soon as possible

Compensation & Benefits:

• $30-$35 per hour, dependent on experience
• Kaiser Permanente health insurance for employee, or stipend (pro-rated per average hours)
• 10 holidays per year (prorated per average hours)
• 40 hours paid vacation accrued per year and can be used as it accrues
• Employees earn one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked
• Goosefoot matches up to 3% of employee’s gross wages as a contribution to a Simple IRA plan offered. Employee must contribute to the Simple IRA to receive this benefit.

Please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]
No phone calls please.

Position Overview:

About Goosefoot

Goosefoot Community Fund was founded in 1999 to bring Bayview area neighbors together to nurture a sense of place and community, preserve the rural landscape, and enhance local commerce. Over the past two and a half decades it has grown into a complex enterprise.

Goosefoot believes in the power of our community gathering together to celebrate, learn, and address problems. Inclusion–regardless of someone’s race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation or political beliefs—has been a core value of ours since our founding in 1999.

Goosefoot currently helps strengthen our island community through: 1) supporting essential needs, including developing affordable, multi-family workforce housing; 2) providing small business education and incubation support; 3) bolstering networking, services and advocacy in support of healthy food systems and local food production and distribution; and 4) preserving architectural and cultural assets including community-based educational events, art shows, and celebrations.

Across four subsidiary entities, Goosefoot conducts commercial property management, operates a community grocer, and nurtures workforce housing initiatives. Collectively there is over $18 million in assets under management.

Goosefoot Community Fund is organized as a Type 1 Supporting Organization under IRS 501(c)(3) and provides funding and programmatic support to other organizations through grants and other programs, including fundraising for specific programmatic purposes. It serves as a fiscal sponsor and manages approximately 22 commercial tenant relationships. Subsidiary Bayview Grocer Inc. (the Goose Community Grocer) is organized as an S-Corporation that provides operating support, although the day-to-day retail accounting is conducted by an outside firm. As of 2023, Goosefoot Community Fund will be a recipient of federal grant funding, with associated reporting requirements, as well as those of private lending institutions. Goosefoot currently has 11 employees and enjoys support and oversight from an engaged Board of Directors and a Finance-Operations Committee that each meet monthly. An outside accounting firm reviews and prepares annual financial statements, and prepares all federal tax returns, with support from the Finance Director and Staff Accountant

Position Purpose:

Goosefoot is hiring a staff accountant who is comfortable managing the books of a financially complex organization. Under direction of the Finance Director, the staff accountant will support Goosefoot in recording and maintaining all financial transactions, including running payroll, making payments on capital debt and operating expenses. The role will invoice commercial tenants monthly, as well as receiving donations, rent receipts, and loan payments from external entities. They will assist the Finance Director in performing reconciliations, in preparing financial statements and closing books, and providing activity and analysis reports to facilitate fiscal oversight and long-term planning.

Principal Responsibilities:

The following duties are intended to be representative of the work performed and is not all-inclusive:

• Overall responsibility for data entry into accounting system and integrity of accounting system data
• Manage Accounts Payable: process bills and prepare inter-company reimbursements
• Process payroll and related liability reporting, ensure compliance with labor laws and benefits requirements
• Reconcile all bank accounts
• Prepare monthly tenant invoices and statements, including reimbursements
• Prepare cost accounting reports for rental properties
• Maintain a balanced general ledger, accounts receivable, depreciation and other schedules
• Prepare monthly and year-end financial reports
• Prepare grant financial performance reports
• Prepare financial materials for external auditors for annual review
• Assist the Finance Director with reporting and regulatory requirements

General Qualifications:

• Hands-on knowledge of fund balance accrual-basis accounting
• Proficient experience with Microsoft Excel and Quickbooks software.
• Experience converting Quickbooks desktop to Quickbooks online.
• Completed coursework or certifications in business math or other related education preferred.
• Ability to manage workload that may vary throughout the year, depending on deadline management, with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated support for a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Ability to incorporate an anti-oppression lens into daily work practice

Skills Required:

• Non-profit bookkeeping and/or accounting experience involving multiple lines of business and/or multiple program fund balances.
• Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize projects.
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Attention to detail and meticulous data entry skills.
• Discretion in dealing with confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and compassion with board members, colleagues, tenants and other stakeholders.
• Enjoys working in a team environment and supporting the organization as a whole to fulfill its mission.
• Innate curiosity and ability to think out of the box to come up with creative solutions.

Reporting Relationships: This position reports to the Finance Director.

Please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]
No phone calls please.

Goosefoot Community Fund is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Goosefoot prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Goosefoot also conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations