Financial and Audit Compliance Analyst

General Position Summary:

The Financial & Audit Compliance Analyst (Nonprofit Focus) plays a critical role in ensuring financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and transparency in support of Food Lifeline’s mission to end hunger. This position supports organizational growth by managing complex nonprofit financial reporting, driving audit preparedness, and ensuring compliance across a portfolio of government contracts, federal awards, and donor-restricted funds.

This analyst role is deeply embedded in nonprofit accounting operations, with key responsibilities including fund accounting, account reconciliations, month-end close, revenue recognition, and financial reporting. It also leads efforts for Single Audit readiness, oversees compliance reviews, and prepares documentation for Form 990, SEFA schedules, and grant audits.

Salary: USD $95,000 - $100,000 / year

Essential Functions:

• Provide positive, professional, and responsive customer service to internal teams and external stakeholders seeking finance and accounting support.

• Ensure completeness, accuracy, and appropriate coding of general ledger data related to the revenue cycle, government contracts, and donor-restricted grants.

• Support and monitor the timely and accurate month-end close process, including preparation of journal entries, reconciliations, and maintenance of schedules and roll forwards.

• Perform detailed fund accounting, ensuring accurate tracking and reporting of restricted, unrestricted, and temporarily restricted net assets.

• Lead preparation for the annual financial audit, including compiling workpapers, schedules, and documentation. Serve as the primary liaison with external auditors for the financial audit, Single Audit, and Forms 990 and 990T.

• Prepare and review financial statements, budget-to-actual reports, and other reporting for governmental contracts, federal awards, and donor grants.

• Maintain a clear understanding of award agreements and compliance requirements by reviewing project descriptions, budgets, scopes of work, and narrative documents.

• Ensure compliance with GAAP, Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200), and donor-specific requirements.

• Identify federal awards subject to Single Audit and support the preparation of the SEFA (Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards).

• Schedule and lead cross-functional meetings to communicate key grant compliance requirements, timelines, and deliverables to program and operational staff.

• Conduct and/or support internal monitoring of sub-awards and expenditures to ensure allowable use and compliance with award terms.

• Assist with documentation and responses required for compliance audits or monitoring visits from government agencies and funders.

• Support preparation and compilation of documentation for Forms 990, 990T, and 5500, in collaboration with external tax preparers.

• Contribute to the strengthening and documentation of internal controls over financial reporting, grant tracking, and compliance.

• Participate in continuous improvement efforts to streamline accounting processes and ensure best practices in nonprofit financial management.

• Perform other duties as assigned to support the goals of the finance team and the mission of Food Lifeline.

Secondary Functions

• Assist with annual audit process, PBC lists and information gathering

• Assist with annual budgeting process especially as it relates to grants

• Assist with other monthly/annual compliance and reporting items

• Provide accounting and administrative support for team projects as required.

• Ensure all policies and procedures are appropriately documented and that an accounting manual is regularly updated and maintained

• Participates in meetings, committees, and events as required.

• Other duties as needed

Job Scope:

• Has recurring work situations with occasional variations from the norm.

• Has a moderate level of work complexity.

• Performs work under minimal supervision.

• Decisions are made within policy constraints.

• Budgetary accountability – as needed

• Management of capital assets – as needed

Supervisory Responsibility:

• None Interpersonal Contacts: Contact is primarily internal and frequently is confidential in nature.

• Internal 85%

• External 15%

• In-person 60%

• Phone/Email 40%

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated understanding of the intersections between hunger, poverty, racial inequity and social injustice. Must have awareness of the issues faced by community members experiencing poverty or facing food insecurity.

• Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships.

• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP).

• Knowledge of non-profit accounting, reporting, practices and standards.

• Knowledge of financial analysis methods and tools.

• Ability to meet frequent and sometimes tight deadlines while managing multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as policies and procedures, vendor contracts and governmental regulations.

• Ability to apply concepts of advanced math: analysis, statistics, significant data or number manipulation.

• Skill in using computer software including MS Office. Advanced level of Excel skills

• Skill in using computer software designed for accounting such as Microsoft Navision.

• Ability to work as member of a team and independently.

• Ability to recognize the need for due care with confidential information.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• Knowledge of government contracts and federal award audit requirements

• Non-profit experience strongly preferred

• CPA license or audit background preferred

• Experience preparing SEFA schedules or working on Single Audits

• Understanding of equity and inclusion as it applies to policies and procedures

Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of accounting experience required

• 4-year accounting/finance degree required

Job Conditions: Hybrid work schedule available with a requirement of being in the office 3 days a week at the Hunger Solution Center. Work is performed in an office setting with adequate lighting, heating and ventilation. Requires extended periods of sitting, use of laptop computer, and the ability to routinely lift and carry up to 10 pounds. Position may be subject to periodic increased workloads due to month/year end closings and audits.

Physical Demands: Prolonged periods of sitting while keyboarding; repetitive use of hands and wrists. Requires extensive close work and prolonged mental focus on figures, forms and computer screens.

Ready to join Food Lifeline? Apply now!

To join our team as our Financial & Audit Compliance Analyst (Nonprofit Focus) please read the full job description and apply online; this posting will remain open until filled.

Please review the full job description and apply and submit your cover letter here: https://foodlifeline.org/careers/

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and seek to bring our values of diversity and inclusion to our hiring process. Beyond our commitment to non-discrimination, we encourage applications from candidates who can contribute to the diversity of our organization and who have lived experience of inequity and connections to marginalized communities.