Accounting Specialist

Position Summary

The Accountant Specialist provides essential support to the Finance Team by ensuring that key accounting functions, such as donation processing, accounts payable, receivables, monthly reporting, and annual audit/990, are running smoothly and in compliance with internal controls and external requirements for YFC/USA. While not directly responsible for executing these processes, the Accountant Specialist ensures consistency, accuracy, and timeliness by coordinating with relevant staff, maintaining documentation standards, and supporting process improvement.

This role serves as a key quality control and operational support function within the finance department.

• Donations Management:
  Cross‑functional collaboration with staff to ensure donations are loaded accurately and timely, maintaining both accounting standards and development metrics. Manage donor restrictions, pledges, and intentions.
• Receivable Management:
  Maintain billing calculations, monthly receivable reports and analysis, and support with YFC Chapters regarding their payments.
• Accounts Payable:
  Work with staff to ensure AP processing is timely and accurate. Maintain and ensure the application of sales tax exemptions, and complete annual 1099s.
• Provide backup processing for the above processes.
• Financial Reports:
  Maintain and build financial reporting, including income statements, balance sheets, cash forecasting, and trend analysis.
• Audit/990:
  Complete needed reporting and reconciliations for YFC’s annual financial audit and 990.
• Support the annual budget process with template and budget creation.
• Collaborate with Chapter Leaders as assigned.
• Additional Responsibilities:
  Perform other miscellaneous accounting duties as assigned.

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth For Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, it is very important that you as an employee be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel. As an employee, YFC expects all employees to:
Seek God’s guidance and wisdom for the organization, participate in prayer, teach and preach the Bible, and model empathy, humility, and care for all people.

• Ability to humbly serve and honor others with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience.
• Demonstrate reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills.
• Prioritize others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem solving.
• Trust God with new approaches and changes, communicating needs and limits with emotional intelligence.
• Seek and foster authentic Christ‑Centered relationships, empowering historically marginalized groups.

All YFC employees are expected to regularly participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA, including inviting for fund‑raising events, recruiting donors, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

The Budget Manager aligns all financial resources to the YFC/USA strategic plan, coding, approval, and financial decision-making for their assigned division, department, or action plan budget. When a budget is over-funded or underfunded, course correction occurs through the MCCR process.

• Strong process acumen.
• Bookkeeper level or above understanding of accounting.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Ability to work in a deadline‑driven environment.
• Strong emotional intelligence that can approach accounting questions/issues from a ministry perspective.

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.
• 1+ years of experience.

Ability to communicate orally with customers, vendors, management, chapter leaders, and other co‑workers is crucial. Regular use of the telephone and e‑mail for communication is essential. Sitting for extended periods is common. Hearing and vision within normal ranges is essential for normal conversations, to receive ordinary…