Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Braven • Newark, NJ

3d • $95,900 - $119,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

Braven is seeking a Director, Financial Planning & Analysis to serve as a trusted resource, leader, and collaborator across the organization on financial planning, forecasting, and decision-support topics. This role is part of the Finance team within the People & Operations department and will lead organization-wide budgeting, forecasting, and financial decision support, translating program and operational strategy into actionable financial plans. The position reports directly to the Chief Finance & Admin Officer (CFAO).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 3+ years of non-profit experience, specifically comfortable with budgeting, forecasting, and board-level financial reporting
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity and knowledge of accounting principles/theories (GAAP, FASB)
• Prior experience with an ERP implementation or major system migration strongly preferred (Workday specifically a plus)
• Experience with budgeting/reporting tools such as Workday Adaptive Planning a plus
• Team player and business partner who demonstrates the ability to work in a collegial, collaborative, and fast-paced organization
• Strong listening skills, empathy, patience, and the ability to lead through influence and by example
• Effective project, time, process, and people management skills which enables them to manage multiple, changing priorities and initiatives, and to "get things done" in a timely manner
• Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
• Exemplification of Braven’s core values.
• Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and has prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual organization-wide budget process, partnering with department and program leaders to build realistic, defensible budgets.
• Maintain rolling multi-year forecasts incorporating enrollment, funding, and headcount assumptions.
• Build and maintain scenario models (best-case, worst-case, and most-likely) to support board and executive decision-making.
• Translate program and operational strategy into financial models that quantify costs, returns, and trade-offs for leadership decisions.
• Own and lead monthly budget-to-actual variance meetings with department and program leaders, flagging risks and opportunities to leadership.
• Own a rolling cash flow forecast that models grant and gift receipt timing against operating cash needs, partnering with Development on receipt timing and flagging liquidity risk to the CFAO.
• Serve as the organization's functional owner of its budgeting and planning systems (Workday budgetary controls, Adaptive Planning), maintaining model structure, hierarchies, and dashboards each budget cycle.
• Build and maintain KPI dashboards tracking organizational performance against plans for leadership, the Board, and Finance Committee(s).
• Partner with Development on revenue forecasting tied to funding pipeline and multi-year grant/gift commitments.
• Prepare Board & Committee materials, including budget presentations and variance narratives.
• Serve as the primary financial planning partner to non-finance department leaders, providing independent analysis and recommendations that shape their budget decisions, including training on budgeting and planning tools and troubleshooting support.
• Partner with the Finance grants lead to ensure that grant-funded program budgets are accurately reflected in organization-wide forecasts without duplicating compliance-level detail.
• Own compensation and headcount budget modeling, partnering with the People Team on underlying assumptions.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 20 days per year)
• $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director