Finance & Accounting Manager

Rippleworks

2h • $165,000 • Remote

About The Position

Rippleworks Foundation believes all people should have equitable access to the resources and opportunities to live life to the fullest. Our mission is to provide the practical support entrepreneurs and their teams need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs have directly supported 260 ventures by running 400 custom advisory projects across 60 countries, running workshops for over 1,600+ leaders and deploying more than over $270 million in unrestricted funding to help these ventures grow.
We are a mission-driven team dedicated to helping impactful ventures thrive. Our goal is to create the best possible workplace for purpose-driven professionals to make an outsized difference in the world—learning, growing, and having fun together along the way.
Rippleworks has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (by Fast Company) and one of the world’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (by Fast Company and Accenture)
We support our portfolio of Ventures in 4 ways:
Projects: Short-term, high-impact projects where social ventures work with leading executives to tackle top operational priorities
Expert Office Hours: Specialized, contextually relevant advice for ventures from Rippleworks Experts
Leaders Studio: Expert-led learning programs where leaders gain critical skills ventures need to deliver impact at scale.
Capital: Provides hard-to-find capital required for scale (grants and loans)
We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Rippleworks. Rippleworks is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Rippleworks also complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email [email protected]. Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support via transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
The Finance & Accounting Manager Role supports the Finance function, reporting to the Director of Finance, to assist with the invoice & expense processing, policy compliance, accounting, budgeting, reporting, and administrative functions. This role enables finance to run efficiently and accurately as well as support our team with their ad hoc finance & expense policy questions.

Requirements

• Prior nonprofit finance/private foundation experience, including 6+ years of demonstrated experience in accounting and ownership of full cycle AP process
• Managed and improved upon complex internal expense policies that support international travel
• Proven experience managing records, maintaining audit readiness, and creating compliant, efficient finance and accounting processes
• Demonstrated experience managing, or being a significant contributor to, monthly close, journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reporting preparation.
• Proficiency with accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Ramp), Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables) as well an interest in the ongoing modernization of accounting and finance tools
• Experience managing or supporting grant compliance as well as an understanding of capital disbursement requirements
• Ability to understand, enforce, and improve upon internal controls and safeguards. Keen eye for risk management.
• Communicates Effectively: Strong communication with ability to explain policies and processes clearly and supportively. You articulate your thoughts in a concise and relationship building manner; you can distill process, policy, or analysis into simple and concise written materials; you actively listen to gain full understanding of complex situations.
• Accounting Expertise: Experience-based knowledge of month-end close and AP process including 501c3 compliance and US-GAAP understanding.
• Collaboration: Collaborative team member who enjoys helping others navigate financial tools and policies. You can balance upholding the policies with maintaining the relationship. You can’t always say yes, but you lead with team care. You build relationships through trust, kindness, and by being highly responsive.
• Learning Agility: You are a strong critical thinker and use the information available to you to complete your work and move the organization forward.
• Ventures First: Deeply understands venture needs in order to design and deliver exceptional value to our venture partners through the experts who support them.
• Learn Forward: Continuously and actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as growth opportunities.
• Connect with Care: Engages our global community with curiosity and kindness across roles and levels, backgrounds, and geographies to cultivate trust, inclusivity, belonging, and collaborative success rooted in both empathy and fairness.
• Progress over Perfection: Navigates dynamic, changing situations and makes decisions or creates a path forward even with imperfect or incomplete information
• Be an Owner: Reliably executes and takes initiative to deliver high-quality work and impact with care and tenacity. Evolves solutions that best serves ventures, Rippleworks, and the broader team.

Responsibilities

• Own Accounts Payable: Invoice intake, approval routing, payment scheduling, liaise with vendors and Invoice approvers, and own the management of timely, compliant payments
• Manage expense reimbursements for timely submission and policy compliance
• Manage the corporate card program & ensure timely and compliant expense reporting
• Perform routine general ledger tasks including journal entries, account reconciliations, and data validation all in support of the monthly & quarterly close process.
• Support the domestic and outsourced international employee payroll platforms (Trinet & Deel) focusing on accuracy, compliance, and employee experience across domestic and international teams.
• Respond to adhoc reporting and financial detail requests
• Support with auditor communications & coordination
• Assist with compliance work (tax filings, reporting, HR compliance, HR forms, etc)
• Partner with the Capital Team to send invoices, monitor PRI loans and related interest- classifying the payments, lending local calcs, and reporting payment timing
• Assist with the preparation of wire payments.
• Support Rippleworks' annual budgeting process, using a low-lift, customer service-oriented methodology.
• Create quarterly budget to actuals reporting and variance analysis. Support budget holders with questions regarding their budget management.
• Assist with the capital disbursement requirement calculation, monitoring, and annual planning.
• Assist with Community Grants program - scheduling, content creation, answering questions for grants teams, etc.
• Provide input and iteration on our policies - particularly around travel and expenses
• Collaborate on the design of new SOPs and internal control improvements, partnering with other departments to ensure collaborative process improvement and shared understanding
• Support the company’s overall risk management, including data security structure and process
• Further the numerous financial partnerships throughout the impact investing and cryptocurrency ecosystem with grant agreement & compliance knowledge
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external finance questions, ensuring timely and clear guidance to team members and external stakeholders.
• Maintain organized digital finance files, including AP documentation, contracts, vendor records, employee finance records, compliance materials, etc.
• Assist in creating training materials, scheduling office hours, reminders, communications, etc.
• Support systems administration including user set up and troubleshooting.
• Acts as a strategic collaborator on safe-travel processes
• Assist with the miscellaneous admin that is housed in finance (though may not be specifically finance related)

Benefits

• Earn a salary of $165,000 with robust benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k) + employer match, holidays, flexible PTO, wellness, and remote-work stipends.
• Global Engagement: Travel opportunities to connect with the social impact ecosystem and experience Rippleworks' impact firsthand. Extend work trips through our Study Abroad Program for regional exploration.
• Giving Back: Participate in our Community Grants program, awarding $50K to a nonprofit of your choice, plus a $2,500 charitable donation match for financial or volunteer contributions.
• Growth-Oriented Culture: Access professional coaching, a generous learning budget, and regular team learning events to support personal and professional development.
• Flexible Remote-First Environment: Enjoy flexible work hours, remote-first stipends, and meaningful virtual and in-person connections through Core Collaboration Weeks (2–3 times per year).
• Sabbatical Benefit: After five years, take four weeks off for rest, travel, or personal exploration to refresh and re energize.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees