Accounting Specialist

The Accountant Specialist provides essential support to the Finance Team by ensuring that key accounting functions, such as donation processing, accounts payable, receivables, monthly reporting, and annual audit/990, are running smoothly and in compliance with internal controls and external requirements for YFC/USA. While not directly responsible for executing these processes, the Accountant Specialist ensures consistency, accuracy, and timeliness by coordinating with relevant staff, maintaining documentation standards, and supporting process improvement. This role serves as a key quality control and operational support function within the finance department.

Essential Functions:

• Donations Management: Cross-functional collaboration with staff to ensure donations are loaded accurately and timely, maintaining both accounting standards and development metrics. Manage donor restrictions, pledges, and intentions.   
• Receivable Management: Maintain billing calculations, monthly receivable reports and analysis, and support with YFC Chapters regarding their payments.
• Accounts Payable: Work with staff to ensure AP processing is timely and accurate. Maintain and ensure the application of sales tax exemptions, and complete annual 1099s.   
• Provide backup processing for the above processes.
• Financial Reports: Maintain and build financial reporting, including income statements, balance sheets, cash forecasting, and trend analysis. 
• Audit/990: Complete needed reporting and reconciliations for YFC’s annual financial audit and 990.
• Support the annual budget process with template and budget creation
• Collaborate with Chapter Leaders as assigned
• Additional Responsibilities: Perform other miscellaneous accounting duties as assigned.

Spiritual Responsibilities:

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth For Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, and in that regard to make, educate and encourage life-long disciples of Jesus Christ, it is very important that you as an employee in the movement of Youth For Christ be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel.

As an employee of Youth For Christ and an associate minister of the Gospel, YFC expects all employees to:

• Seek God’s guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole, as well as, for specific ministry initiatives.
• Participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFC.
• Teach and preach from the Holy Bible at YFC staff meetings, conferences, camps and events.
• Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in word and in the practice of faith expression.

YFC employees will have an opportunity to be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established Youth for Christ process, and/or ordained by an outside body recognized by Youth for Christ USA.

YFC Cultural Attributes 

Our cultural attributes are not about competency. It is an obedience to the call of Christ on our lives. YFC believes that spiritually healthy adults fosters healthy relationships with our kids. We place a heavy commitment and emphasis on developing and equipping a Christ-centered life marked by Enduring Humility, Relentless Trust, Joyful Camaraderie, Courageous Faithfulness and Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our leaders are expected to be willing to demonstrate and/or possesses the following:

• Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility).
• Demonstrates proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others’ ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others’ need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy. (Relentless Trust).
• Prioritizes others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie).
• Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence*, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness).
• Seeks and fosters authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds and an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy of those who are vulnerable and respect of others’ experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity).

Fundraising Responsibilities:

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA. These activities will include—but are not limited to—extending invitations to fund raising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts. 

For Affiliate and Chapter Staff: YFC may attach a minimum fundraising goal to certain projects, activities, departments, or individuals.

Budget Responsibilities:

A Budget Manager is responsible to align all financial resources to the YFC/USA strategic plan in accordance with the delegation and direction of the Division Head. The Budget Manager is responsible for coding, approval and financial decision-making for their assigned Division, Department and/or Action Plan budget. When a budget is overfunded or underfunded, the Budget Manager is responsible to course correct though the MCCR process.