Senior Accountant

About Global Citizen

Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty. On our platform, Global Citizens learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on these issues, and earn rewards for their actions as part of a global community committed to lasting change. Global Citizens have taken over 42.9 million actions since 2009. These actions, combined with high-level advocacy work, have helped drive more than $49 billion in commitments to partners around the world, impacting 1.3 billion lives in the fight to end extreme poverty.

Role Overview

Global Citizen is seeking a Senior Accountant to serve as a hands-on senior individual contributor accounting lead for the organization. Reporting directly to the VP of Finance & Operations, this role owns the integrity of Global Citizen’s general ledger, global consolidation, and financial reporting across multiple domestic and international entities.

This is a highly technical and execution-oriented role for an experienced accounting professional who is comfortable working directly in the general ledger, preparing and reviewing reconciliations and journal entries, resolving complex accounting issues, and taking a multi-entity organization from underlying books through consolidated financial statements.

The Senior Accountant will have particular responsibility for multi-entity consolidation, intercompany accounting, foreign currency considerations, nonprofit accounting, and general ledger management. The role will establish consistent accounting treatment across Global Citizen entities while ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and applicable nonprofit accounting standards.

While Accounts Payable and Payroll are executed by designated staff, the Senior Accountant maintains accounting oversight of these processes and ensures their accurate integration into the general ledger and financial reporting. 

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role—not a people-management position. Success requires an experienced accountant who enjoys owning the details, investigating discrepancies, strengthening processes, and personally driving the accounting close from start to finish.

Key Responsibilities

Global Consolidation & Financial Reporting — 35%

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation of Global Citizen’s domestic and international entities.
• Prepare consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and consistency across entities.
• Own intercompany accounting, including reconciliation of intercompany balances and transactions and preparation of consolidation and elimination entries.
• Manage multi-currency accounting and foreign currency translation considerations across international entities.
• Review entity-level financial information and identify and resolve inconsistencies before consolidation.
• Establish and maintain standardized accounting treatments, reporting packages, chart-of-account conventions, and close procedures across entities.
• Partner directly with international finance and accounting contacts to resolve accounting issues and ensure timely and accurate submissions.
• Analyze consolidated results and provide clear explanations of material balances, movements, and accounting matters to Finance leadership.

General Ledger, Nonprofit Accounting & Close — 35%

• Own the general ledger and personally drive the month-end and year-end close process from transaction-level accounting through final financial statements.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, cash activity, allocations, and other close-related accounting.
• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of the chart of accounts and ensure transactions are appropriately classified across entities, departments, programs, and funding sources.
• Apply U.S. GAAP and nonprofit accounting standards to day-to-day and complex accounting matters.
• Ensure appropriate accounting for net assets with and without donor restrictions, contributions, grants, functional expenses, and other nonprofit-specific transactions.
• Review balance sheet accounts and supporting schedules, investigate discrepancies, and ensure reconciling items are resolved promptly.
• Develop and document accounting positions for complex or non-routine transactions.
• Maintain disciplined close schedules, account ownership, supporting documentation, and reconciliation standards.
• Continuously improve accounting processes, policies, procedures, and internal controls with an emphasis on accuracy, scalability, and efficient execution.
• Maintain strong data integrity within Sage Intacct and related financial systems.

Audit, Tax & Regulatory Compliance — 20%

• Lead the annual external financial statement audit and serve as the primary accounting contact for external auditors.
• Prepare audit schedules, account analyses, supporting documentation, and technical accounting memoranda.
• Coordinate accounting support for the preparation and filing of IRS Form 990 and related federal, state, and international compliance requirements.
• Lead the annual Worker’s Compensation audit and other recurring financial compliance processes.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation throughout the year and proactively address accounting and control matters before year-end.
• Monitor developments in U.S. GAAP and nonprofit accounting guidance and assess their implications for Global Citizen.

AP, Payroll & Financial Controls — 10%

• Maintain accounting oversight of Accounts Payable and Payroll activities performed by designated staff.
• Review payroll and AP activity as necessary to ensure complete and accurate recording in the general ledger.
• Ensure appropriate reconciliations and controls exist over cash disbursements, payroll, vendor activity, and other financial transactions.
• Identify control gaps and implement practical improvements while maintaining efficient operating processes.
• Ensure AP and Payroll close activities are completed in accordance with reporting deadlines.

Fundamental Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, with significant hands-on responsibility for general ledger accounting, financial close, and financial statement preparation.
• Strong nonprofit accounting experience and demonstrated knowledge of U.S. GAAP and nonprofit accounting standards.
• Demonstrated experience owning accounting for a multi-entity organization, including preparation of consolidated financial statements.
• Significant hands-on experience with intercompany accounting, consolidation entries, eliminations, and entity-level reconciliations.
• Experience working with international entities and foreign currency accounting and translation.
• Demonstrated experience leading month-end and year-end close processes and working directly in the general ledger.
• Experience leading external financial statement audits and supporting IRS Form 990 preparation.
• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to work efficiently with large and complex financial datasets.
• Strong proficiency with accounting and ERP systems; Sage Intacct experience strongly preferred.

Attributes

• A hands-on accountant who is equally comfortable analyzing consolidated financial statements and investigating the underlying journal entry or reconciliation.
• Deep attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership over the accuracy and completeness of financial information.
• Strong technical accounting judgment and the ability to independently research and resolve accounting issues.
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage a complex close calendar across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Able to identify inconsistencies across entity-level books and work collaboratively with international colleagues to resolve them.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an instinct for understanding why balances changed rather than simply reporting that they changed.
• Able to translate complex accounting matters into clear, concise information for Finance leadership and non-accounting stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating independently in a senior individual-contributor capacity while collaborating closely across Finance and the broader organization.
• Committed to building disciplined, well-documented, and scalable accounting processes.
• Using AI tools to work smarter and drive impact is an essential part of every role at Global Citizen. All staff must integrate AI into their daily work, whether improving workflows, analyzing information, or enhancing communication in service of our mission.

Global Citizen is a fast-moving, mission-driven organization where bold ideas, smart risks, and decisive action are part of how we create impact. We are looking for people who are energized by ambitious goals, comfortable navigating change, and ready to work collaboratively across teams, time zones, and sectors. The pace is high and the work is meaningful, making this a strong fit for people who bring initiative, adaptability, courage, and a deep commitment to driving real-world change.

Benefits

Why Global Citizen?

In this coming decade of action and accountability, Global Citizen will be the leading international voice, educator, and influencer that rallies humanity to take full responsibility and accountability for eradicating extreme poverty. You have a chance to contribute and make this world a better place for all.

More Details

• Must be authorized for employment in the United States.
• Global Citizen operates on a hybrid work model — three days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) in our NYC office and two days (Monday and Friday) telecommuting.
• Full-time, ongoing employees are eligible for a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; commuter benefits; 403(b) retirement savings and employer match; generous paid time off; paid parental leave; employee discounts; FSA; and Professional Development Assistance (EAP).
• Salary Range: $133,000–$140,000 annual salary.

*Global Citizen is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Global Citizen strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, citizenship or any other protected classification under applicable federal, state, or local laws. In addition, Global Citizen complies with the relevant country laws governing employment nondiscrimination in all our international offices. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer