Staff Accountant
About Micromentor
Micromentor is a global social enterprise working to close one of the biggest gaps facing under-resourced entrepreneurs: access to trusted, practical business guidance.
We believe mentorship can change the trajectory of a business, and a life, when it’s accessible, human, and designed for real-world conditions. Through our digital platform, we’ve connected tens of thousands of entrepreneurs with volunteer mentors across 180 countries, with a strong focus on women entrepreneurs and microbusinesses.
Our team combines technology, community, and deep empathy for the entrepreneurs we serve. We work across cultures, time zones, and sectors to build mentorship as scalable infrastructure for income generation and economic mobility.
Our team is motivated to support economic mobility through entrepreneurship and mentoring, energized by experimentation, and excited to see their work translate into real outcomes for real people. We’re looking for dedicated people to help us move this mission forward.
Position Overview
Job Title: Staff AccountantLocation: Remote / Flexible, must overlap with Pacific Coast time 4+ hours/dayReports to: CFOPosition Type: Part Time Consultant
This role integrates financial analysis with disciplined accounting execution, serving as both financial steward and operational accounting lead to ensure accurate books, protect grant compliance, and provide leadership with reliable financial insight while maintaining strong operational controls.
This position requires strong analytical judgment and transactional precision in a mission-driven, compliance-focused environment.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Integrity
Perform monthly reconciliations within five business days of reporting and investigate discrepancies to resolution.
Maintain core financial dashboards (cash flow, burn rate, Budget vs Actual) and provide bi-weekly variance insights and tradeoff recommendations to leadership.
Strengthen financial visibility and documentation systems.
Grant & Contract Financial Oversight
Monitor grant budgets and contract spend for alignment with approved terms, flagging overspend, underspend, or compliance risks early and recommending corrective action.
Review consultant/vendor invoices for alignment with contractual scope.
Accounting Operations & Controls
Process vendor and consultant payments within two business days of receipt, ensuring complete documentation and accurate coding to grant and project budgets in alignment with funding restrictions and approved budgets.
Manage weekly credit card expense allocation and monthly reconciliation.
Develop and maintain travel reimbursement materials and process reimbursements within five business days of trip return, ensuring policy compliance and accurate coding.
Update budget trackers and accounting logs in real time as expenses are processed, ensuring alignment with approved budgets.
Onboard new consultants and vendors into the accounting system by supporting setup, collecting required documentation, and training them on invoice submission processes, documentation standards and payment timelines.
Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor and consultant payments, proactively sourcing invoices, and responding to payment inquiries within 48 hours with timely follow-through to resolution.
Systems & Process Improvement
Identify opportunities to improve workflows through automation or AI tools, and maintain clear documentation of financial processes, controls, and workflows.
Minimum Qualifications & Required Skills:
3+ years accounting experience with both analytical and transactional exposure.
Grant compliance experience preferred.
Strong Excel and ERP proficiency.
Ability to manage both analysis and execution without compromising quality.
Comfort experimenting with AI tools to improve financial reporting, analysis, and accounting efficiency is a plus.
This role requires a minimum of 2 dedicated hours per day, Monday–Thursday, during PST business hours for real-time coordination. Additional hours may be completed flexibly as needed based on workload and the AP cycle. Total hours are expected to vary but not exceed approximately 60- 80 hours per month.
Additional Core Competencies:
Aligns with micromentors’ mission to increase economic opportunity for underserved entrepreneurs via tech-enabled, human mentorship
Makes informed decisions by gathering relevant data, seeking feedback, weighing risks and ability to explain one’s rationale
Builds community and inclusion via transparency in their work, earning trust and putting trust in others, resolving conflict respectfully and ensuring appropriate stakeholders are involved in decisions as needed.
Maintains a learning mindset and adaptability via curiosity and reflection/improvement of mistakes
Ownership and execution sets clear goals and follows through, takes accountability for resolving issues
Sustainable performance: Balances strong delivery with healthy work habits and self-care, Shows up and supports others with steadiness, optimism, and resilience
Cultural awareness: Demonstrates understanding of cultural challenges others may face. Adjusts communication tone, pace, and formality depending upon cultural context. Regularly examines personal assumptions and works to reduce unconscious bias
Why Join Micromentor?
This role supports Micromentor's mission to empower small businesses globally by ensuring we identify and secure mission-aligned partners’ whose pain points we can alleviate via mentorship for entrepreneurs. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to be a sustainable social enterprise and foster meaningful connections between entrepreneurs and mentors, furthering economic opportunities in underserved communities.
How to Apply:
Please send an email to careers@micromentor.org with the subject line “Application: Staff Accountant”
Be sure to attach your CV and include a brief introduction or cover letter in the body of the email.
Applications that do not follow these instructions will not be considered.