Accounting Strategist

Core responsibilities include:

• Work closely with a third-party accounting team and facilitate communication between Industrious Labs and the third-party as needed.
• Perform monthly reconciliations for multiple bank accounts and employee credit cards.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts to maintain financial integrity and accuracy.
• Record and allocate payroll transactions by department, grant, or other relevant dimensions.
• Process deposits against invoices and revenue accounts across various programs.
• Enter and post accounts payable transactions, ensuring proper coding and authorization.
• Occasionally manage accounts receivable and assist with collections or follow-ups.
• Generate monthly revenue reports for program leads and organizational leadership.
• Maintain the general ledger; prepare and post journal entries as needed.
• Prepare draft and final financial statements for management, board, and funders.
• Assist in the annual budgeting process with data analysis and reconciliation.
• Support finance staff with tax, audit, and assurance preparation tasks.
• Identify and propose process improvement opportunities for operational efficiency.

This role supports the organization's mission to set into motion unstoppable policies, people power, and analysis to make a triple impact on climate, justice, and jobs, drastically reduce dangerous emissions, and make industry accountable to communities and workers.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Strong understanding of GAAP principles for for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
• Experience with accounting platforms, especially Sage Intacct.
• Demonstrated skill reconciling multiple bank and credit card accounts.
• Clear and professional communication skills—able to translate financial information to non-financial audiences.
• Values-driven, with alignment to the organization’s mission and core competencies.
• Deep alignment with our mission, values, and goals.
• Highly collaborative work style and service as a peer and thought partner.
• Commitment to learning, curiosity, and personal growth.
• Strong communication skills - able to break down complex issues into clear strategies and decisions.
• Excited by the unknown and eager to build.
• Proven leadership and commitment to equity, transparency, and team culture.
• Demonstrated experience working across lines of race, class, gender, and geography.
• Skill within a dynamic, fast-paced environment and moving between solo efforts and teamwork.
• Commitment to giving and receiving direct, compassionate feedback.

Hourly pay: $43.75. Competitive benefits for part-time employment include a work-from-home stipend, up to 5% 401k employer match, 11 paid holidays, and unlimited PTO (with a minimum requirement of 8 business days for this role). Part-time employees are eligible to receive once-yearly additional prorated compensation of $6,000 to offset self-acquired health coverage costs.

Industrious Labs' mission is to set into motion unstoppable policies, people power, and analysis to make a triple impact on climate, justice, and jobs, drastically reduce dangerous emissions, and make industry accountable to communities and workers.