Title: Finance Associate, Content
Schedule Format - Location: Hybrid - San Francisco
Pay Information: Hourly Rate: $29.75-$37.19
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Finance Manager, Content, the Finance Associate supports purchasing and procurement activities across the Content division. The role is responsible for ensuring timely processing of procurement requests, vendor onboarding, and invoice workflows.
The Associate partners closely with the Finance and Accounting teams to maintain efficient workflows and support cost control, procurement efficiency, and vendor management.
As a key member of the Content division, this role supports Finance Managers primarily through data preparation, data management, and ad hoc analysis, with a focus on data accuracy, project costing, and cost tracking/reporting.
The role requires handling confidential information with discretion and delivering timely, professional support to internal stakeholders.
KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.
We value the contributions of marginalized people in society - including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people - and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.
KQED Code of Ethics https://www.kqed.org/about/code-ethics
The mission that drives us:
KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.
This role will work hybrid between working in KQEDs newly renovated headquarters and working remotely.
Essential Functions:
Activities include, but not limited to:
Procurement Processes:
Create purchase requisitions as needed
Send approved purchase orders, including terms and conditions, to vendors
Collect documentation for received goods and services (e.g., packing slips, bill of lading, receiving logs)
Record receipt of goods and services within the purchasing system (Zip)
Process invoices by ensuring accuracy, proper approvals, compliance with accounting policies, and correct sales/use tax treatment
Expense & Corporate Card Management
Prepare monthly reconciliation of corporate cards and virtual cards
Collect receipts and ensure proper coding and policy compliance
Ensure alignment with company and grant funding requirements
Operations & Vendor Support
Source and purchase production and office supplies
Coordinate with Independent Contractors on material releases and facilitating payments
Travel & Expense Support
Serve as a subject matter expert for Direct Travel/Concur
Assist Content staff with expense reports, travel arrangements and event registrations
FP&A & Accounting Support
Support month-end accruals for assigned departments
Review and adjust employee expense coding
Administrative & Compliance
Maintain records in a secure, neat and easily accessible manner
Candidate Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as necessary to meet the ongoing needs of this organization.
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