Senior Assistant Controller

• Industry Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
• Work Experience 4-5 years
• Remote Job

Job Description

This is a remote position.

About PEPR

PEPR is an organizational effectiveness firm dedicated to strengthening high-impact organizations — with a particular focus on those working to advance the farmed animal advocacy movement. We partner with nonprofits, advocacy organizations, social enterprises, and movement leaders to build the strategic clarity, internal capacity, financial resilience, and organizational foundations they need to grow and deliver lasting change.

We blend strategy and operations so that plans become actionable, achievable, and aligned for success — creating an ecosystem of highly effective, resilient organizations that can accelerate their collective impact. We believe that stronger organizations create a stronger movement, and more impact for animals.

Our work sits across three areas: Enable — where we serve as an embedded fractional team running and evolving core operations; Engage — where we provide compliant, values-aligned global hiring and EOR infrastructure; and Elevate — where we partner with leaders and teams through advisory engagements, short-term projects, and the Animal Advocacy Ops Collective community. Across all three, our goal is the same: to unlock impact.

How Does This Role Support Our Mission?

In this role, you will be responsible for an assigned portfolio of nonprofit and mission-driven clients, serving as their primary day-to-day finance contact. You will manage the month-end close, reconciliations, accounting quality, and financial reporting, and build trusted relationships with client leadership and operations teams. Over time, you will come to understand each organization's context and the financial story behind its numbers, helping clients understand where they stand and spotting issues before they grow.

You will be supported by outsourced bookkeeping and accounting professionals who handle much of the routine bookkeeping, transaction processing, and related accounting administration for your clients. You coordinate and review their work, so you are not expected to handle every transaction yourself. Your time goes into the accounting judgment, quality review, and client relationships that matter most. In the same way that large organizations rely on strong finance teams beneath their senior leadership, PEPR's practice gives advocacy organizations access to that depth without having to build it themselves.

You will work closely with PEPR's Head of Finance and Financial Controller, collaborating on client delivery, technical accounting matters, reporting, budgeting, and more complex financial questions. You will also be part of a wider finance and operations team with established tools, processes, and colleagues you can call on. You will be accountable for your clients, with experienced support close at hand.

This is a remote position based anywhere in the US - primarily working in the US East Cost time zone.

Requirements

What Will This Role Be Responsible For?

Client Delivery — Close, Reporting & Analysis

• Lead the month-end close for your assigned clients, including reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and supporting schedules, and deliver it accurately and on time.
  
• Prepare monthly reporting packs, including nonprofit financial statements, variance analysis against budget, and commentary that a non-finance reader can follow.
  
• Maintain accurate general ledgers, charts of accounts, and balance sheet integrity across multiple client organizations.
  
• Track restricted contributions and grants, prepare functional expense allocations, and support funder reporting schedules.
  
• Collaborate with senior finance colleagues on client budgets, forecasts, and cash flow monitoring.
  
• Coordinate audit preparation for your clients, including compiling schedules, gathering documentation, and responding to auditor requests.

Client Relationships

• Build trusted relationships with client leadership and operations teams, and get to know each organization's context, priorities, and financial circumstances.
  
• Organize and lead recurring client finance meetings and reporting reviews, explaining results and the story behind the numbers in accessible language.
  
• Serve as the primary day-to-day finance contact for your clients, responding to questions clearly and promptly.
  
• Identify financial issues, process gaps, and emerging risks early, and work with colleagues on complex accounting matters and strategic client issues.

Working with Bookkeeping & Accounting Support

• Oversee and coordinate the work of the outsourced bookkeeping and accounting