Ashoka Visa Sponsorship USA
Ashoka is a food and beverage company with a history of supporting international workers through permanent residency pathways. While not among the highest-volume sponsors in its industry, Ashoka has demonstrated a genuine commitment to sponsoring qualified candidates for Green Card pathways, making it a meaningful target for immigrants seeking long-term stability in the U.S. food sector.
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This is a unique leadership opportunity to work at a globally recognized, social impact organization that is changing the world for good of all. The Controller at Ashoka, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has oversight responsibility, in partnership with the CFO, for accounting, finance, reporting, and financial compliance activities in the organization. The Controller will supervise the Accounting team at the organization level, regional finance managers (in partnership with regional managers), the Payroll Supervisor (in partnership with the Head of Talent), and an outsourced Finance/Accounting support team. They will work closely with their peers in Ashoka Finance and the senior leadership team, while assisting the CFO with financial operations. They will have functional responsibility over accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable/grants administration, (with the Global Finance Capacity Strategist), payroll, and the Netsuite Analyst. They will also ensure the organization has the systems and procedures in place to support effective program implementation and conduct clean audits. This role is central in our work to simplify finance and accounting procedures, continuously improving how the function supports program operations. The Global Finance Capacity Strategist, a peer to the Controller, will provide partnership for financial capacity building for teams at the country and regional levels. The person in this role will have the opportunity to create and maintain enduring partnerships with the CFO, senior leadership, and the Talent, Legal and Information Technology (IT) staff to enhance and better integrate Finance, HR, Legal and IT functions.
Finance and Accounting Leadership:
- Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements; apply reporting standards for nonprofit entities.
- Implement appropriate internal controls and mechanisms for receipt of revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures, and ensure appropriate safeguarding of Organization assets and the proper recording of financial transactions.
- Coordinate all audit activity.
- Work with the Finance team’s Head of Business Intelligence to consistently analyze financial data and present financial reports timely and accurately; clearly communicate financial statements; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership abreast of Ashoka’s financial status.
- Review and approve payroll.
- Support the CFO in engaging the board’s audit and finance committees around issues and trends in financial operating models and delivery.
- Oversee all financial, project/program and grants accounting; ensure that expenditures are consistently aligned with grant and program budgets throughout the grant/fund period.
- With the CFO, maintain and manage relationships with external stakeholders, including financial institutions, auditors, and large vendors.
- Establish and monitor implementation of finance policies, procedures and administrative systems to support finance/program operations.
- Evaluate and lead team to improve Team’s application of the accounting ERP system (NetSuite); rollout the ERP system in other country offices as appropriate in coordination with regional and local finance managers.
Team Leadership:
- Leverage strengths of the current finance team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals. Support development of a new role within the finance organization to focus on simplifying processes and financial training across the organization.
- Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment.
- Provide coaching to other staff while working collaboratively with them to define and find solutions to issues. Be willing to roll up sleeves in tackling issues including technical challenges.
What You Bring
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA); Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- At least 5 years in a Controller or equivalent position
- Accounting experience in a not-for-profit organization, including grants accounting
- Public accounting experience will be a plus
- Experience managing and directing teams of finance and accounting professionals
- Strong knowledge and experience in ERP platform, preferably NetSuite
- Managing financial statements audits, organization’s strategy, budget, and planning
- Strong ability to research technical GAAP topics and also implement rules as appropriate
- Appropriate balance of focus on simplification of processes and policies, while ensuring nuances are covered
- Willing and able to face unique challenges never experienced before
- Ability to work and collaborate with people in other teams who have no financial knowledge
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with smart, caring professionals who want to make a meaningful change in the world.
Core Criteria
- Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
- Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
- Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
- Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
- Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker. Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.
The Opportunity
This is a unique leadership opportunity to work at a globally recognized, social impact organization that is changing the world for good of all. The Controller at Ashoka, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has oversight responsibility, in partnership with the CFO, for accounting, finance, reporting, and financial compliance activities in the organization. The Controller will supervise the Accounting team at the organization level, regional finance managers (in partnership with regional managers), the Payroll Supervisor (in partnership with the Head of Talent), and an outsourced Finance/Accounting support team. They will work closely with their peers in Ashoka Finance and the senior leadership team, while assisting the CFO with financial operations. They will have functional responsibility over accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable/grants administration, (with the Global Finance Capacity Strategist), payroll, and the Netsuite Analyst. They will also ensure the organization has the systems and procedures in place to support effective program implementation and conduct clean audits. This role is central in our work to simplify finance and accounting procedures, continuously improving how the function supports program operations. The Global Finance Capacity Strategist, a peer to the Controller, will provide partnership for financial capacity building for teams at the country and regional levels. The person in this role will have the opportunity to create and maintain enduring partnerships with the CFO, senior leadership, and the Talent, Legal and Information Technology (IT) staff to enhance and better integrate Finance, HR, Legal and IT functions.
Finance and Accounting Leadership:
- Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements; apply reporting standards for nonprofit entities.
- Implement appropriate internal controls and mechanisms for receipt of revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures, and ensure appropriate safeguarding of Organization assets and the proper recording of financial transactions.
- Coordinate all audit activity.
- Work with the Finance team’s Head of Business Intelligence to consistently analyze financial data and present financial reports timely and accurately; clearly communicate financial statements; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership abreast of Ashoka’s financial status.
- Review and approve payroll.
- Support the CFO in engaging the board’s audit and finance committees around issues and trends in financial operating models and delivery.
- Oversee all financial, project/program and grants accounting; ensure that expenditures are consistently aligned with grant and program budgets throughout the grant/fund period.
- With the CFO, maintain and manage relationships with external stakeholders, including financial institutions, auditors, and large vendors.
- Establish and monitor implementation of finance policies, procedures and administrative systems to support finance/program operations.
- Evaluate and lead team to improve Team’s application of the accounting ERP system (NetSuite); rollout the ERP system in other country offices as appropriate in coordination with regional and local finance managers.
Team Leadership:
- Leverage strengths of the current finance team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals. Support development of a new role within the finance organization to focus on simplifying processes and financial training across the organization.
- Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment.
- Provide coaching to other staff while working collaboratively with them to define and find solutions to issues. Be willing to roll up sleeves in tackling issues including technical challenges.
What You Bring
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA); Experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- At least 5 years in a Controller or equivalent position
- Accounting experience in a not-for-profit organization, including grants accounting
- Public accounting experience will be a plus
- Experience managing and directing teams of finance and accounting professionals
- Strong knowledge and experience in ERP platform, preferably NetSuite
- Managing financial statements audits, organization’s strategy, budget, and planning
- Strong ability to research technical GAAP topics and also implement rules as appropriate
- Appropriate balance of focus on simplification of processes and policies, while ensuring nuances are covered
- Willing and able to face unique challenges never experienced before
- Ability to work and collaborate with people in other teams who have no financial knowledge
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with smart, caring professionals who want to make a meaningful change in the world.
Core Criteria
- Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
- Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
- Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
- Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
- Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.
About Ashoka
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker. Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.
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How to Get Visa Sponsorship in Ashoka Visa Sponsorship USA
Target roles aligned with Green Card sponsorship
Ashoka's sponsorship activity centers on permanent residency pathways rather than temporary work visas. Focus your application on roles where long-term retention matters most, such as production management, quality assurance, and supply chain positions in food and beverage operations.
Understand the EB-2 and EB-3 distinction before applying
Ashoka sponsors both EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card categories. EB-2 typically requires advanced degrees or exceptional ability, while EB-3 covers skilled workers. Identifying which category your background fits before applying helps you frame your qualifications more effectively in your application.
Highlight food industry expertise in your application
Ashoka operates in a specialized segment of food and beverage. Candidates with direct experience in ethnic food production, quality control, or food safety compliance stand out. Tailor your resume to show depth in the specific operational areas Ashoka prioritizes.
Search for open roles using a verified sponsor filter
Not every food and beverage employer will take on Green Card sponsorship. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsors so you can filter by real sponsorship history, helping you focus time on employers like Ashoka that have an actual track record of following through.
Prepare for a longer hiring conversation around visa intent
Smaller food and beverage sponsors like Ashoka often have fewer internal immigration resources than large corporations. Come prepared to explain Green Card timelines, PERM requirements, and your own eligibility clearly, since HR teams may not navigate this process frequently.
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Does Ashoka sponsor H-1B visas?
Based on available sponsorship data, Ashoka does not have a track record of sponsoring H-1B visas. Its sponsorship activity is focused on permanent residency through EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways. If you currently hold H-1B status and are exploring Ashoka, a conversation about transitioning directly to a Green Card-sponsored role may be more productive than expecting H-1B transfer support.
What visa types does Ashoka sponsor?
Ashoka sponsors immigrant visa categories, specifically EB-2 and EB-3 Green Cards. These pathways are suited to skilled workers and professionals in the food and beverage sector. If you hold a qualifying degree or have substantial relevant experience, you may be eligible for one of these categories depending on the specific role Ashoka is looking to fill.
Which roles at Ashoka are most likely to receive visa sponsorship?
Ashoka's sponsorship history suggests a focus on operational and skilled roles within its food and beverage business, such as production specialists, quality control professionals, and experienced food industry workers. Roles requiring specialized knowledge of ethnic food products or food safety standards are most likely to justify the cost and effort of Green Card sponsorship from the employer's perspective.
How do I find open visa-sponsored jobs at Ashoka?
Migrate Mate is the most efficient way to find current openings at sponsors like Ashoka. It filters job listings by verified sponsorship history, so you can confirm that a company has actually followed through on sponsoring international workers before you invest time applying. Search by company name or filter by visa type and industry to see what's currently available.
How do I approach the Green Card sponsorship conversation with Ashoka during the hiring process?
Raise the topic of sponsorship after demonstrating clear value in the interview process, not in an opening message. Come prepared to explain that EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship involves PERM labor certification, attorney fees, and a multi-year timeline. Framing it as a long-term commitment on both sides, rather than a short-term ask, tends to land better with hiring managers at smaller food and beverage companies.
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