charity: water

Account Manager

• Leading the development and management of an end-to-end pipeline of brand partners - from prospect to advocate/champion.
• Owning the long-term strategy and performance for multi-year and repeat partners, ensuring that we meet or exceed our annual revenue targets.
• Serving as a team leader and thought-partner to the VP of Global Marketing & Partnerships in working towards our organizational goals, including blue sky brainstorming and targeting strategic new partners.
• Collaborating with other leaders on Global Partnerships to ensure products, resources, moves management and program excellence is maintained and optimized.
• Stewarding a small portfolio of strategic partners with sophistication and passion, identifying opportunities for growth and expansion within those relationships.
• Acting as internal thought leader to drive brainstorming, collaboration and creative ideation that develop meaningful partnerships.
• Overseeing a team of at least three Brand Partnership staff, helping them grow their annual portfolio revenue year over year through both developing new partnerships and maximizing current.
• Meticulously track the partnership journey within Salesforce as it relates to revenue opportunities, targets and team engagements.
• Representing the organization in brand partner meetings and at various virtual and in-person events to engage current partners and prospective brands, and identify fruitful partnership opportunities.
• Supporting our Leadership Team with brand partner engagements, including research, presentation materials and follow-up, where needed.
• Learning, studying, and becoming an expert on charity: water’s programmatic work and the international WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) sector in general.
• Partnering with leaders across the organization to innovate, and developing new offerings, activations and campaigns that position charity: water as the best-in-class charitable brand partner.

Director of Brand Partnerships

Accounting Manager

• Reviewing and approving journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations prepared by the accounting team including complex areas such as investments; and investigating discrepancies and communicating issues as they arise in a timely manner
• Partnering with Revenue Operations and working cross-functionally with departments to ensure Revenue, including Pledges, are recorded in compliance with GAAP
• Assisting in the timely management of the month-end consolidated financial close process by keeping team priorities on track and assisting staff
• Continually developing, expanding, and improving month-end close and financial reporting procedures and timelines
• Reviewing, approving, and or processing financial transactions as needed
• Researching and supporting the VP, Controller in the implementation of new accounting standards
• Assisting in the creation of new processes and implementation of new systems and simplifying existing processes
• Supporting the management of the year-end consolidated financial statement audit, tax return preparation, and regulatory filings
• Ensuring the timely annual filing of state fundraising registrations
• Supporting the management of special projects, general ledger implementation, internal controls, and ad hoc analyses
• Supervising and mentoring accounting and senior accounting associates