Description
Position Title: International Accounting Manager
Position Classification: Regular, Exempt, Full-Time, 40 hours/week
Reports to: Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
Location: Employees in this role can work from our Boston, MA office, remotely within the U.S. or a hybrid of these two options but must be able to work east coast hours (9am – 5pm ET). Up to 10% travel internationally expected.
Please note that we do not sponsor U.S. work authorization for this role. Candidates must be able to legally work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.
Position Overview:
The International Accounting Manager will be a valuable member of the Partners In Health (PIH) Finance team in ensuring international accounting entries are accurate and timely and that global accounting teams are well supported and trained. The International Accounting Manager will work closely with the Financial Operations Manager in providing holistic oversight and accounting analysis for a portfolio of PIH sites.
Responsibilities:
75% International Care Delivery Site Accounting Support
- Serve as the primary accounting liaison for international site finance teams, building strong relationships and providing guidance on accounting inquiries and processes.
- Provide site backup accounting support and assist with ad hoc posting entries, as needed.
- Review and analyze international sites’ income statements and balance sheets, on monthly basis, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timeliness of financial data.
- Lead monthly close call meetings with international site finance team; identifying necessary corrections and ensuring they are completed. Conduct more detailed quarterly reviews to support audit readiness.
- Perform quarterly spot checks to assess and strengthen financial procedures and internal controls.
- Lead the collection and review of financial documentation from international sites in preparation for PIH’s consolidated audit, acting as the key accounting contact for PIH sites involved in donor audits and single audits.
- For PIH sites that do not use PIH accounting system, review and upload Excel files into PIH accounting system, ensuring accuracy of the data.
25% Capacity Building and International Accounting Training
- Support the Financial Operations Manager in evaluating global accounting team structures, policies, and processes to ensure adherence to GAAP accounting and PIH best practices.
- Identify common challenges and opportunities for improvement across PIH, along with site-specific barriers and process improvements.
- Design and deliver targeted trainings - both one-on-one and team trainings - for a single site or cross-site audiences, to address identified issues and capacity building.
- Assist with ad hoc accounting requests and accounting process improvements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field from an accredited institution with 5 years of relevant experience required.
- CPA or international equivalent preferred but not required.
- Strong knowledge of financial statement review, including balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset management, and GAAP lease standards.
- Experience with international accounting, including familiarity with IRFS and dual ledger accounting.
- Demonstrated experience supporting or preparing for audits.
- Previous experience working with or supporting international finance teams, especially in low-resource settings, preferred.
- Experience with Serenic or Microsoft Navision preferred, or ability to learn new accounting system quickly, demonstrated from previous experience.
- Advanced computer skills, including mastery of Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to travel to PIH international locations up to 10% to support training and capacity building initiatives.
Core Values and Competencies
- Demonstrates the organization’s core values of: Commitment, Humility, Integrity and Pragmatic Solidarity/Accompaniment
- Accountability – Able to accept responsibility for one's actions, outcomes, and those of their team.
- Achieving results – Able to design and conduct work with clarity and integrity: to set realistic targets for themselves and others, ensure availability of resources, monitor progress and performance, accomplish meaningful outcomes, evaluate achievements, and integrate lessons learned.
- Adaptability – Able to adapt to change, to balance multiple demands, consider new approaches, and persist towards solutions in changing circumstances.
- Teamwork – Able to work well with others to achieve common goals. Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with staff across departments and country.
Organizational Profile
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.
As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.
Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.
Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Pay and Benefits
The expected starting salary range for new hires in this position is between $80,000-85,000/year and may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market for the position, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The position belongs to a class of roles that have a salary range between $70,000 and $95,000/year. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan with automatic employer contribution, as well as participate in organization-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability
insurance, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. PIH offers professional development and home office reimbursements as well as a flexible paid time off policy with no maximum, generous holiday time, summer and winter breaks, and a sabbatical leave policy.
Partners In Health will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected]. 
