The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Community Excellence Foundation is hiring a Accounts Payable Specialist in Cambridge, MA.

• Role description

  This tinker-friendly Accounts Payable Specialist role in Cambridge, MA blends the rigor of CFA Certification with the storytelling of business partnering. Own your projects, earn $98,000 - $140,000, and grow with a team that turns 5 years of CFA Certification into real results.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Hold the line on capitalization policy across every finance project
  • Build the close documentation a new mid-level hire could follow blind
  • Flag variance the moment it appears, not after the quarter closes
  • Forecast headcount cost as Community Excellence Foundation scales through Cambridge, MA
  • Pair KPI Reporting forecasting with a bias-to-action review of the downside case
  • Keep depreciation schedules synced as assets retire across Cambridge
  • Where most mid-level roles stop at reporting, this one digs into the why
  • Build budget-vs-actual reviews managers across Cambridge look forward to

  What You'll Bring

  • Strong working knowledge of Hyperion and KPI Reporting
  • Equal parts Cross-Functional Collaboration depth and External Audit curiosity
  • Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
  • Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics

  Community Excellence Foundation is a deeply technical, fiercely independent Cambridge company that would rather earn trust slowly than buy attention quickly. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

  Our Community Excellence Foundation offer is built to keep you: $98,000 - $140,000, coaching, benefits, and hours that flex around the MA life you want.

  The Community Excellence Foundation team is expanding in Cambridge, MA this quarter, and this seat is part of that growth.

  Don't let a documentation-first Accounts Payable Specialist opening in Cambridge become the one that got away.

• Required skills

  • Treasury Management
  • External Audit
  • CFA Certification
  • Cash Flow Management
  • KPI Reporting
  • Hyperion
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Benefits & perks

  • Stock options
  • Annual flu and wellness fairs
  • Partner Discounts
  • Paid jury and witness duty
  • Compressed Workweek
  • Company swag and merchandise
  • Paid personal days

• Apply before 2026-08-07

  Submit your application for this Freelance finance position.