Senior Accountant [Full-Time]

Senior Accountant

Collaborate with a passionate Zoo Crew in San Antonio

Choosing where to grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the place you choose to work at will support and guide you. With a diversity of passionate people, San Antonio Zoo is a place where you can collaborate with others securing a future for wildlife.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Senior Accountant plays an important role in supporting the financial health and mission of the Zoo. This position is responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, supporting timely financial reporting, and helping ensure the integrity of the general ledger. The Senior Accountant prepares reconciliations and journal entries, supports month-end and year-end close, maintains fixed asset accounting, and analyzes financial activity.

Working closely with Finance and teams throughout the Zoo, this role helps strengthen accounting processes, maintain effective internal controls, support audits, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

As a Senior Accountant, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people in San Antonio. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Prepare and post accurate journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, and other general ledger transactions.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet, account reconciliations, and investigate and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes, including preparation of financial statements, supporting schedules, and variance analysis.
• Maintain the fixed asset ledger, including capitalization, depreciation, disposals and retirements, construction-in-progress activity, and reconciliation to the general ledger.
• Maintain prepaid expense schedules and other accounting schedules and supporting documentation.
• Review revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities for completeness, accuracy, appropriate classification, and proper accounting treatment.
• Analyze financial activity and identify unusual transactions, trends, variances, or items requiring additional review.
• Prepare schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for external audits, tax filings, and other regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Monitor compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, organizational procedures, and GAAP.
• Partner with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Development, and operational departments to research and resolve accounting questions and discrepancies.
• Provide accounting guidance and support to team members and serve as a resource for more complex accounting transactions.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, strengthen internal controls, increase reporting accuracy, and create efficiencies.
• Assist with the implementation and ongoing improvement of accounting systems, processes, and financial reporting tools.
• Support special projects, financial analyses, and other accounting responsibilities as assigned.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, the San Antonio Zoo recommends the following skills/qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible accounting experience, including significant experience with general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, month-end close, and financial reporting.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP and fundamental accounting principles.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, PivotTables, lookup functions, data analysis, and working with large data sets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to research discrepancies and develop practical solutions.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both Finance and non-finance teams.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience working in a nonprofit organization or other organization with multiple programs, departments, funds, or revenue streams.
• Experience with AvidXchange.
• Experience with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT or similar accounting/ERP systems.
• Experience with fixed asset accounting, audit support, and financial statement preparation.

The San Antonio Zoo is an equal opportunity employer. San Antonio Zoo will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.