Supervisor: Sr Finance Manager
Location: Colombia, El Salvador
Start Date: October
Contract Type: Full time employee
About Acceso
Acceso ( www.acceso.org ) is a social enterprise that is revolutionizing food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to put smallholder farmers first. Acceso’s mission is to create fundamental and lasting positive economic change in the lives of rural smallholder farming families. Our entrepreneurial model provides smallholder farmers with a sustainable way to participate in formalized markets, enabling them to work themselves out of poverty with dignity and to prosper. Acceso currently operates a portfolio of three social businesses in Colombia, Haiti and El Salvador and an agtech tool (Extensio) founded in Mexico. Across our agribusinesses, we have impacted nearly 35,000 smallholder farmers and farm workers, generating more than $80m in farmer income to date.
About The Role
The Junior Accountant will support Acceso service center team with the accurate and timely processing of invoices, managing vendor relationships, and maintaining meticulous financial records. The Junior Accountant works with the service center staff and finance team to ensure compliance with company policies and accounting principles.
Key Responsibilities
Accounts Payable Processing and Data Entry
- Maintaining and updating the vendor database, including contact information, banking details and records (W9 – W8)
- Receiving, reviewing, and verifying incoming invoices from vendors and suppliers.
- Matching invoices with corresponding contracts and receiving reports to ensure accuracy.
- Accurately entering invoice data into the accounting software. Coding invoices with appropriate general ledger accounts and cost centers.
- Payment approval requests, book on the system and file
- Monitoring accounts payable aging reports to ensure timely payments
- Processing employee expense reports, verifying receipts, and ensuring compliance with company policies
Record-keeping and Reporting
- Maintaining accurate and organized records of all account payable transactions, invoices, and payment documentation
- Assisting with month-end and year-end closing procedures, including preparing journal entries and reconciliations related to accounts payable
- Reconcile debit card / credit card statements and receipts
- Record of pledges (with supporting documentation)
- Supporting in preparing financial statements and reports as needed
- Comply with legal and audit requirements and maintain sound internal controls
Net Assets Control - Tracking of contributions. Assisting in the classification and tracking of all donations and grants, properly identifying them as contributions with donor restrictions or without donor restrictions.
- Release of restrictions.Work with grant manager to preparing journal entries to properly
Admin support to Service Center team
- Support travel arrangements including: – Travel requests approval and reconciliation
- Collaborating with other departments (e.g., Human Resources) to resolve invoice and payment issues
Required Qualifications And Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience supporting accounting department with accounts payable and expenses reimbursement
- Solid understanding of basic accounting principles (USGAAP), accounts payable processes, and financial regulations
- Non-profit experience desirable
- Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint) and finance/ accounting systems, ideally NetSuite
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work
- Highly detail-oriented and organized
- Strong communications and collaboration skills
- Mission driven and personal commitment to improving the lives of smallholder farmers.
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit and business sense.
- Ability to build trust and collaborative relationships.
- Highly organized with excellent time management skills.
- Drive and ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Language skills: Working fluency in Spanish and English. French or Haitian Creole are a plus.
