Volunteer: Nonprofit Audit Process Guidance
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit creating social change through pro bono connections.
Guide and support our staff-level audit process by advising on timelines and deliverables, creating a documentation checklist and audit-ready schedules, coaching finance staff on interactions with external auditors, and helping ensure deliverables and deadlines are met. This resource will act as mentor, advisor, coordinator and, when needed, “do-er.” It is most important that this person have the ability to coordinate; keep people on-point and accountable to their deadlines; perform quality control; and have the knowledge to know how to prioritize audit tasks effectively. The volunteer must have knowledge of lease accounting to help support the audit.
Improved audit readiness and financial controls will increase transparency and compliance, strengthen funder and community trust, and enable staff to focus more resources on programs that advance economic self-sufficiency, family stability, and neighborhood vitality in Central Brooklyn.
The volunteer will collaborate with our finance team to set milestones, review existing materials, and transfer knowledge. We will be available for regular check-ins and to provide context so recommendations can be implemented.
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Mission: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the nation's first community development corporation, partners with residents and businesses to improve the quality of life of Central Brooklyn by fostering economic self-sufficiency, enhancing family stability and growth, promoting the arts and culture, and transforming the neighborhood into a safe, vibrant place to live, work and visit. To close the racial wealth gap in Central Brooklyn's lower-income neighborhoods through an economic mobility platform designed to help people become financially literate and independent. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, Restoration is a dynamic institution that creates significant, sustainable, and demonstrable impact in improving the well-being of local residents and businesses.
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Guide and support our staff-level audit process by advising on timelines and deliverables, creating a documentation checklist and audit-ready schedules, coaching finance staff on interactions with external auditors, and helping ensure deliverables and deadlines are met. This resource will act as mentor, advisor, coordinator and, when needed, “do-er.” It is most important that this person have the ability to coordinate; keep people on-point and accountable to their deadlines; perform quality control; and have the knowledge to know how to prioritize audit tasks effectively. The volunteer must have knowledge of lease accounting to help support the audit.
Improved audit readiness and financial controls will increase transparency and compliance, strengthen funder and community trust, and enable staff to focus more resources on programs that advance economic self-sufficiency, family stability, and neighborhood vitality in Central Brooklyn.
The volunteer will collaborate with our finance team to set milestones, review existing materials, and transfer knowledge. We will be available for regular check-ins and to provide context so recommendations can be implemented.
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Mission: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the nation's first community development corporation, partners with residents and businesses to improve the quality of life of Central Brooklyn by fostering economic self-sufficiency, enhancing family stability and growth, promoting the arts and culture, and transforming the neighborhood into a safe, vibrant place to live, work and visit. To close the racial wealth gap in Central Brooklyn's lower-income neighborhoods through an economic mobility platform designed to help people become financially literate and independent. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, Restoration is a dynamic institution that creates significant, sustainable, and demonstrable impact in improving the well-being of local residents and businesses.
Apply Now
Apply Now