Senior Staff Accountant

Roles & Responsibilities

CASE is a global not-for-profit and membership association whose vision is to advance education to transform lives and society. Its mission is to inspire, challenge and equip communities of professionals to act effectively and with integrity to champion the success of their institutions. Advancing education in over 3,600 member institutions, CASE has 85,000 members in 82 countries.

Broad and growing communities of professional practice gather under the global CASE umbrella. Currently these include advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising, government relations, institutional leadership and marketing. Individual members are at all stages of their career and may be working in universities, schools, colleges, cultural organizations or other not-for-profits. CASE membership also includes many corporate partners. CASE uses the intellectual capital and professional talents of an army of volunteers to advance its work.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, CASE works across all continents from its regional offices in London, Singapore and Mexico City. CASE works to achieve seamless experience for all its stakeholders: particularly its members, volunteers and staff. Working together across time zones and borders, CASE staff in all offices seek to make the ambitious OneCASE aspiration a reality.

Position Purpose

The Senior Staff Accountant role is to maintain the accounting and financial services for the assigned regions of CASE including monthly bank reconciliations, journal entries, trial balances and support the Senior Director, Finance and Senior Director, Financial Analysis in producing monthly financial reports (balance sheets, income statements, investment status, etc.). Assists in preparation of annual budget and monitoring.

Full-time, exempt level employees are eligible for various benefits including vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, employee assistance plan, and participation in CASE’s retirement plan.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The core functions of this position include but are not limited to the following:

Program/Project Management

CASE Global Accounting Management Responsibilities

• Prepares and reconciles various CASE asset and liability schedules with the General Ledger and prepares appropriate adjustment entries. Ensure timely and accurate financial data for month end closing, including accounts receivable, deferred revenue accounts and intercompany accounts.
• Prepare CASE cash account bank reconciliations for multiple currencies.
• Prepare routine financial operations, including cashflow monitoring, invoice orders and receipt of payments, debt collection and expense reports in the regional offices.
• Reviews and approves Account Payable (A/P) vouchers to ensure the accuracy of A/P processing.
• Review the interface between revenue recorded in the association management system (Personify) and the general ledger maintained in the accounting system (Acumatica). This process includes maintaining general ledger and revenue accounts and subaccounts in both Acumatica and Personify, transferring transactions from Personify to Acumatica within five (5) business days after the end of each month and preparing detailed monthly revenue reports.
• Assist with the corporate credit card approval and reconciliation process, including system administration, monitoring the submission of receipts by CASE staff and the approval of expenses by department managers and creating monthly management reports on outstanding expense documentation and supervisor approvals.
• Manages and reconciles all merchant/credit card receipt transactions processed by CASE Regional accounts, outside customers and online purchases.
• Coordinates with other regional offices (CASE US/Canada, CASE Latin America, CASE Europe and CASE Asia-Pacific) to reconcile intercompany transactions monthly and initiate transfer of funds due to/due from each office.

CASE Regional Accounting Responsibilities

Regions assigned and additional responsibilities specific to the region include:

US/Canada

• Maintains efficient documentation of financial and confidential information in the regional offices
• Maintain State tax exemption and fund-raising filing and certificates.
• Review annual 1099 filings.
• Prepare semi-monthly payroll entries into the general ledger.
• Reconcile all payroll deductions and payments to vendors for flexible spending accounts, commuting benefits and other benefit plans.

Asia-Pacific

• Maintains efficient documentation of financial and confidential information in the regional office.
• Prepare and manage payments, payroll processing, pension and tax filings, including GST filings as needed.
• Complete the annual Auto-Inclusion Scheme (AIS) submission for staff’s personal income tax and prepare the IR8A forms for Asia-Pacific office.
• In Asia-Pacific region, responsible for the company compliance portfolios, including working with company secretary for AGM and ACRA filing in Singapore, working with the Commissioner of Charities in Singapore and with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission for annual filings.

Miscellaneous Responsibilities

• Provides support for the annual audit process, including preparing schedules and account reconciliations requested by external auditors for CASE for the preparation of consolidated CASE Global financial statements, and assisting with preparation of IRS Form 990 for regional entities.
• Responds to and provides ongoing support to CASE department/budget managers as requested.
• Constructively collaborates with other CASE program managers to ensure effective and efficient accounting processes for staff and members.

Fiscal Management/Budget Responsibility/Judicious Use of Resources

• Exercises fiscal responsibility in the utilization of all CASE resources.

Image Responsibilities

• In keeping with the CASE Values Statement, it ensures that CASE is well represented by exercising a high degree of professionalism, accuracy, and ethics, in all activities, services, and products.

Liaison Responsibilities

• Liaises with CASE colleagues in other parts of the world to ensure the best sharing of ideas, expertise and knowledge.
• Incorporates tasks and/or projects related to objectives as directed by the CASE Strategic Plan.

Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Supervisor.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Education and Experience:

• Degree in accounting or business administration, plus Five to eight (5-8) years of experience in performing standard accounting functions on an accrual basis, including journal entries, revenue recognition, account reconciliations, budgeting and financial reporting. An equivalent combination of relevant experience and education/training may be considered in place of a formal degree.
• Experience with multi-currency, multi-entity and international operations is preferred.
• Experience with non-profit accounting is preferred.

Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in Excel and all other Microsoft Office applications.
• Must have strong organizational and analytical skills; ability to work in a fast-paced accounting department with the expectation of high productivity, while managing multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated experience and proven ability to interact with multiple internal and external constituencies and maintain confidentiality.
• Must have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills.
• Must have technical knowledge of integrated accounting and financial management, reporting and budgeting systems and association management systems.

APPLICATIONS

Interested candidates may contact Cindy Schuler at cschuler@case.org. Please send your cover letter and resume stating your salary expectations by 21 March 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified. This position is based in the Singapore office. No relocation package will be offered.

Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time. This document represents a description of intended job content and should not be construed in any way to be a contract of employment.

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Accounts Payable
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Accounting
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Financial Statements
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Audit
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Revenue Recognition

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