Career Path - Not-for-Profit Sector

Experience Example Paths

• Bookkeeping

• Computer transactions 

• Data entry  

• Reporting

• Billing 

• Bank and GL reconciliations 

• Clerical duties

• Secretarial duties

• Preparing financial statements, budgets 

• Preparing and posting journal entries

• Responsible for accounting functions, cash flow, cash management

• Senior level accounting duties 

• Treasurer duties

• Manages/supervises staff

• Reporting

• Cost and billing analysis

• Finalizes financial statements and information to senior government agencies and board of directors

• Systems implementation and enhancements 

• Financial planning and forecasting

• Revenues and expenses to prgrams and/or funding sources

• Manages financial statements and reports

• Program analysis 

• Implements computer systems

• Cost-benefit analysis 

• Presents reports to board of directors and/or senior management

• Hires, trains and manages staff

• Manages investments and finances 

• Capital planning and organization structure

• Program planning and analysis  

• Prepares complex reports for government and funding agencies

• Reports to board of directors 

• Reviews journal entries prepared by junior staff