About Dean Dorton
Dean Dorton’s team makes up one of the largest advisory firms in the United States. We thrive when you thrive! We are here to help you succeed in every step of your development and career as you work with nationally recognized experts in a recognized best place to work.
Our core values guide how we work, lead, and support one another every day. They are:
Integrity - We do the right thing, integrity guides our decisions.
Relationships - We value people, relationships drive our impact.
Collaboration - We win as one team, collaboration fuels our success.
Growth - We stay curious, growth is our mindset.
About the Team
Dean Dorton's outsourced accounting team serves as a critical component to the financial success of our clients. Our team partners with organizations to serve as their CFO, controller, and/or accounting team – allowing clients to focus on other key business processes integral to their success.
By offering cloud-based and real-time financial data to our clients, we translate complex financial information into meaningful advice including visualizations of the precise metrics that matter to investors, lenders, executives, and department leaders. This provides our clients with the data they need to make quicker strategic business decisions with greater control over their cash flow.
About the Role
The Accounting & Financial Outsourcing (AFO) Senior Manager – Nonprofit Services provides strategic financial advisory and engagement leadership to a portfolio of nonprofit clients while overseeing the delivery of outsourced accounting services.
Operating within a CPA firm environment, this role serves as a senior client advisor and engagement leader, partnering with executive leadership and boards of exempt organizations to strengthen financial operations, improve decision-making, and support long-term sustainability.
The Senior Manager is responsible for leading engagement teams, ensuring high-quality service delivery, and managing client relationships, while also contributing to practice growth and operational excellence.
This role requires deep experience supporting mission-driven organizations with complex funding structures, including grants, contracts, and donor-restricted funding, as well as demonstrated experience with grant budgeting, grant compliance, and financial reporting to funders.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The essential duties & responsibilities of the Accounting & Financial Outsourcing Senior Manager role are outlined below in correlation with Dean Dorton’s performance management impact areas.
Technical
Definition: your specialized knowledge & expertise associated with the work you perform for/with clients (note: clients may be internal to Dean Dorton).
Serve as the primary strategic financial advisor to a portfolio of nonprofit clients, including Executive Directors, CEOs, Finance Committees, and Boards.
Provide guidance on financial strategy, sustainability planning, and operational decision-making.
Lead the development, monitoring, and analysis of organizational and program budgets.
Deliver cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and financial modeling to support client decision-making.
Oversee the full accounting lifecycle for nonprofit clients, including month-end and year-end close processes.
Ensure financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP for nonprofit organizations, including proper classification of net assets and donor restrictions.
Oversee and manage grant accounting, compliance, and reporting across complex funding sources, including federal, state, and private grants.
Support clients in the development of grant budgets, financial narratives, and funding strategies.
Guide clients on allowable costs, cost allocation methodologies, and indirect cost recovery strategies.
Monitor grant performance, including burn rates, match requirements, and reporting deadlines.
Support clients through Uniform Guidance audits and other compliance reviews.
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