Director Of Finance Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible accounting or finance experience, including significant nonprofit grant accounting and management experience.
• Knowledge of nonprofit accounting, restricted contributions, revenue recognition, cost allocation, functional expense reporting, budgeting, and financial analysis.
• Experience managing federal, state, local, and private grants, including electronic grant portals, reimbursement requests, compliance reporting, monitoring, and closeout.
• Working knowledge of applicable grant requirements and Uniform Guidance, with the ability to interpret grant agreements and translate requirements into practical financial procedures.
• Advanced proficiency with accounting systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong leadership, supervisory, organizational, analytical, and project-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex financial and grant requirements to nonfinancial stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, maintain accurate records, exercise sound judgment, and build effective relationships with staff, management, funders, auditors, and external partners.
• Must meet all background and child-protection requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree, CPA, or other relevant certification.
• Experience developing and maintaining grant dashboards and management-reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization’s subject matter expert and primary internal and external point of contact for grants, contracts, and related financial matters.
• Maintain a comprehensive grant-tracking dashboard covering awards, funding periods, restrictions, deadlines, reimbursements, match requirements, budget revisions, renewals, closeouts, and responsible staff.
• Manage grantor-system access and submit applications, budgets, revisions, reimbursement requests, financial and progress reports, and closeout documentation through required portals by deadlines.
• Review grant agreements and award documents for financial requirements, allowable costs, restrictions, match obligations, performance conditions, reporting requirements, and compliance risks.
• Coordinate with program and development teams to align grant budgets, narratives, deliverables, and financial data before submission.
• Maintain complete grant files and supporting documentation, including audit evidence.
• Participate in Board, committee, audit, finance, leadership, organizational, and external meetings as assigned; represent the Finance Department.
• Record grant revenue, receivables, deferred or conditional amounts, releases from restriction, and related journal entries accurately and timely.
• Reconcile grant awards, billings, receipts, receivables, deferred revenue, restricted net assets, and general ledger activity each month.
• Monitor grant expenditures for allowability, allocability, reasonableness, period of performance, funding availability, and consistency with approved budgets.
• Review payroll allocations, time-and-effort documentation, cost allocation methods, procurement support, and other grant source documentation.
• Prepare and submit reimbursement requests, drawdowns, invoices, and expenditure reports with supporting documentation.
• Analyze grant budget-to-actual results, investigate variances, forecast spending, and recommend revisions or corrective actions.
• Manage grant closeouts, including reconciliations, revenue recognition, expenditure validation, receivable collection, release of restrictions, and required record retention.
• Maintain internal controls over grant revenue, expenses, reporting, cash draws, and supporting documentation.
• Lead monthly and year-end close processes and ensure timely, accurate financial statements and management reports.
• Oversee functional expense classifications among program services, management and general, and fundraising in accordance with applicable standards and organizational policy.
• Develop, document, and maintain cost-allocation methodologies across grants, programs, departments, locations, and functional expense categories.
• Prepare functional expense analyses and schedules for financial statements, grant reporting, annual audits, and the organization’s informational tax return.
• Compile and present cash-flow reports, budget-to-actual reports, financial statements, grant forecasts, and special analyses for executive leadership and the Board.
• Lead annual budgeting and forecasting with department leaders, incorporating grant restrictions, funding periods, staffing allocations, match requirements, and indirect-cost assumptions.
• Develop, implement, and enforce financial policies and operating procedures consistent with organizational requirements and generally accepted accounting principles.
• Coordinate annual audits, grant-specific audits or monitoring visits, and tax filings; prepare schedules and respond to findings or corrective-action requirements.
• Maintain effective communication with grantors, auditors, program leaders, development staff, executive leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Analyze practices and trends at similar local and national organizations and propose improvement strategies.
• Work with executive colleagues to evaluate data, feedback, productivity, and key performance indicators for quality improvement.
• Manage, coach, and develop Finance Department staff; set responsibilities and performance expectations, review work quality, and promote cross-training and professional development.
• Foster accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, service excellence, effective communication, and strong working relationships across the organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of organizational operations and mission achievement.