About the Role

We are looking for a highly driven individual to join our Finance team. As an Accounting Associate, you will provide the Bearing Tree team and our partner organizations with critical backend support that empowers everyone to do their best work. You must be curious, entrepreneurial, self-accountable, and solutions driven. Additionally, you are passionate about the work of our partner organizations and are committed to doing everything you can to help them be successful.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and update cash flow files to reflect current financial data.
  • Generate ad hoc financial reports to support decision-making.
  • Prepare, code, and upload documents in Certify and NetSuite for accurate recordkeeping.
  • Support partner onboarding by gathering and organizing necessary information.
  • Manage and update the Chart of Accounts (COA) and class structures.
  • Handle invoice processing, including autopay systems and manual invoice retrieval.
  • Track billable expenses and ensure accurate client invoicing.
  • Administer expense platforms like Expensify and manage credit card reconciliations.
  • Support month-end close activities, including prepaid expenses and amortization schedules.
  • Maintain documentation for fixed assets and liaise with compliance personnel.
  • Monitor and respond to the accounting inbox and manage tasks via Basecamp.
  • Provide administrative and research support to the Finance & Accounting team.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Administration, or a related field preferred (graduating seniors are encouraged to apply)
  • 1-3 years of experience in an administrative or entry-level accounting role
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel.
  • Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality with financial information.
  • Quick learner with a willingness to take on new tasks and responsibilities.

Culture

Our purpose is to make it easier for mission-driven organizations to focus their efforts on creating a better world. Our team works with innovative nonprofits with ambitious visions around free market public policy, media and journalism. We provide our partners with affordable and effortless access the critical expertise, processes, technology and care to make sure all of the operational details of running the organization are addressed so our partners can focus their efforts on changing the world.

Success at Bearing Tree requires more than professional ambition or a particular skill set. It requires the ability to operate within a culture of mutual support and high expectations. Here are some of the primary beliefs we live out in our work:

  • Mission-driven: We work with partners who, like us, are striving every day to create a better country and world
  • Professional: We deliver world-class expertise and industry-leading technology to provide superior quality, value and service in all we do
  • Dedicated: We are fully committed to our mission of “making it easier to make a difference” and understand the critical role we play in our partners’ success
  • Collegial: We develop productive, enjoyable and lasting relationships that greatly enhance the value we deliver – and get – from our work
  • Trustworthy: We recognize the importance and sensitivity of the nature of the work we do with our partners, and we strive to do the right thing, all the time
  • Grateful: We are thankful and humbled to have our abilities multiplied in driving positive impact across an array of incredibly worthy causes The ideal candidate is passionate about the work Bearing Tree and our partners are doing to improve the lives of Americans and excited to advance the organization’s work through providing critical operational support to teams and partners.

Location

The position will be based in Chicago.