Senior Manager, General Accounting - YESS Finance - National Office (Remote)

The Senior Manager, General Accounting - YESS Finance is responsible for delivery of GL Accounting services. This involves supervising the YESS team, quality assuring services delivered by the organization. A further key responsibility of this position is to identify and drive improvement opportunities in this area.

YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) embraces a remote-first working environment which means most employees work remotely from a home office within the continental United States.

• Lead the General Ledger Accounting team to deliver GL Accounting services in accordance with YUSA & Y Association strategies and requirements
• Oversee escalations from internal customers and response to customer enquiries, ensuring issue and error resolution
• Contribute to internal and external governance forums as appropriate
• Ensure compliance with internal policies & controls and with external regulations
• Respond to customer feedback survey results
• Identify and drive improvement opportunities for General Ledger Accounting. Work closely with continuous improvement function to ensure implementation of these
• Identify risks or opportunities to revenues, cost, and profitability and propose appropriate actions 
• Support development of clearly defined achievable team and individual goals 
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of general accounting and supervisory experience
• Excellent understanding of end-to-end transaction processes
• Knowledge of financial systems
• Understanding of taxation – income and sales
• Knowledge of GAAP
• Knowledge of internal controls and compliance
• Ability to utilize metrics to identify opportunities for service improvement
• Demonstrated employee management skills; ability to plan, assign and direct work; ability to recruit, mentor and appraise employees
• Commitment to the YMCA character development values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility is required

We offer a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, defined benefit plan (retirement savings), defined contribution plan (403(b) plan, life and disability insurances, technology stipend, and generous paid time off, all in a work from anywhere in the continental U.S. workplace.