Finance Associate

Description:

API Legal Outreach is the largest social justice legal organization focused on the Asian/Pacific
Islander, Latinx, and immigrant communities of the Greater Bay Area and the Central Valley. A
growing community-based organization founded in 1975, our mission is to provide culturally
competent and linguistically appropriate direct services to the most marginalized segments of our
community including low-income women, seniors, immigrants, and youth. With offices in
Oakland and San Francisco, our work is focused in the areas of Gender based Violence,
Immigration and Immigrant Rights, Disability Rights, Senior Law and Elder Abuse, Anti-Human
Trafficking, Youth Violence Prevention, Anti API Hate Violence, the preservation of affordable
housing and small businesses, and other social justice issues.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in managing finances of APILO, including tasks such as reconciling

general ledger accounts to reports

• Preparing budgets, invoices, and financial reports
• Assisting with annual audit preparation
• Coordinate fiscal administration of grants and contracts, including grant

reporting and communications with grant monitors

• Assisting Finance Coordinator in fiscal oversight including maintaining financial

databases involving bank accounts, inventory control, clients and donors

• Represent the organization at meetings with funders and government entities
• Assist with other office tasks as necessary

Qualifications:

• Accounting degree, bookkeeping experience, and/or relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice and to serve disadvantaged persons

in the Asian/Pacific Islander community.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of personal computer; word processing, database,

Excel, and QuickBooks Pro and/or other nonprofit accounting programs.

• Self motivated team player, with strong work ethic.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment.
• Bilingual and bicultural skills in Asian/Pacific language or Spanish a plus.