School Finance Manager

December 6, 2023

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

Description

• Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools, advising these schools’ leaders and Boards on matters pertaining to financial and operational policies, strategic decisions, and long-term financial planning • Produce forward-looking financial forecasts, set budgets, and lead finance strategy development in a way that aligns with school goals and reflects EdOps’s commitment to equity and anti-racism • Attend finance committee or board meetings to present and explain finance strategy • Analyze, model, and solve problems on a wide range of business issues • Engage in client listening and endeavor to proactively identify and solve clients’ financial challenges - either directly, or through engaging other teams at EdOps • Provide development and informal oversight to School Finance Specialists and School Finance Analysts on school-specific processes • Actively contribute to EdOps’s internal research, development and innovation of our finance product • Solve small, real problems for schools on a daily basis • Advise school leaders on nuanced, long term strategic financial decisions (i.e., facilities projects, staffing models, school expansion) • Develop close, trusting partnership with C-Level school leadership which will allow you to provide the best advice and support • Present important financial information to a school’s Board of Directors • Sharpen you expertise in strategic school finance, from multi-year budget development to internal process refinement • Work with 5-8 schools in different stages of growth and with different academic models • Contribute to the development and refinement of EdOps’s standard finance product, as well as our suite of best practices • Lead project-based or market development work beyond your school portfolio • Continue to solve real problems, small and large, for schools every day

Requirements

• Care about education and outcomes for students as much as you care about budgets, forecasts and efficient financial processes • Find joy in solving financial problems for individual schools. The little things make schools actually work • Able to zoom in and out between high level strategic perspective and detailed, daily financial work • Desire to be involved in the financial processes from input to analysis. We are outsourced CFOs but sometimes we are also controllers, accountants, and everything in between • Strong in independent problem solving. We are a very collaborative community that supports each other, but our School Finance Managers are independent and solve new problems every day • Energized by being in a customer service role. We are here first and foremost to serve our school clients • Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Open to learning and growing in these areas together so that each of us can contribute to building a culture of equity and support our schools in advancing these values • Experience excelling in a School Finance Management role (i.e., led finance function for a school, led part of a finance function in larger school organization) • Experience as part of a School Leadership Team or working very closely with a School Leadership Team • Comfort with accounting. A CPA or extensive expertise is not required, but experience navigating accounting software and reading and analyzing financial reports is a must • Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs, because Excel will be your best friend at times • Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, as every school is different, and approaches and solutions often have to be customized • Excellent client communication and interpersonal skills. Comfort presenting and explaining information (both verbally and in writing) to people with varying financial literacy • Comfort interacting with, advising, and challenging C-Level leaders in schools • Strong organization and time management skills. There is a lot going on here • General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite) because we are not big fans of paper around here at EdOps • Typically, School Finance Managers have 10-15 years of work or post-secondary educational experience • Experience leading audits

Benefits

• Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence • Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts • Check out other perks of working at EdOps here . And some details on benefits here • We know that a team from a wide range of backgrounds with different life experiences, identities, opinions, and talents makes us better able to innovate and deliver on our mission of supporting schools to improve student outcomes • Every day we work to build an inclusive company culture where everyone feels valued and respected • This is a remote position