Remote Finance Team Manager

Summary

Join EdOps as Finance Team Manager and lead a team of finance professionals, serving clients in a mission-driven context. Manage staff support, quality control, and client work to ensure best results for schools.

Requirements

• Experience managing teams of finance or accounting professionals
• Strong organization and time management skills. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities while meeting deadlines
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
• Experience with accounting systems (e.g. QuickBooks Online) and capacity to learn new systems
• Ability to write and clearly document processes and procedures
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Ability to interface professionally with clients
• Typically, Finance Team Managers have 10+ years of work or post-secondary educational experience, including 3+ years of management or supervisory experience

Responsibilities

• Train and coach staff as part of standard training sessions and beyond
• Guide and support staff’s career paths through EdOps via discussion, navigation and collaborative planning
• Develop and conduct Annual Reviews, Mid Year Deep Dives for direct reports with input from EdOps colleagues and clients
• Address underperformance and develop PIPs as necessary
• Decide on staff promotion timing (with approval of the Director)
• Create and maintain a team work culture that is inclusive and fair
• Resolve staff issues as necessary
• Informing upwards on trends
• Create and maintain a team work culture that is inclusive and fair
• Ensure that their team’s client work meets EdOps quality standards: Provide the necessary project management to ensure that EdOps work is completed on timely with general expected quality
• Support in the accounting review of schools and implement team specific QC mechanisms to have reasonable certainty that work meets EdOps standards
• At times, problem solve or find solutions for the more complex parts of the work
• Serve as an outsourced controller for at least one school by overseeing all day-to-day full-cycle accounting and compliance aspects of the schools: Close the books monthly/quarterly/annually and support the preparation of monthly financial statements
• Oversee federal, state, and local grants administration
• Serve as a school’s primary contact during annual financial audits and 990 preparation
• Support the annual budgeting process in partnership with School Finance Managers
• Liaise with a school’s state education authority (SEA), and the charter authorizer as needed
• Contribute to Edops’s continual improvement of our finance service line efficiency and accuracy. Gather information, notice trends, and make recommendations to Directors to improve product and processes, identify service/tools needed, and address issues
• Make recommendations, inform and collaborate with the Director of People Operations to optimize our people operations wide practices and approaches
• Play an active role in the ongoing recruitment process of new staff

Benefits

EdOps salaries are commensurate with relative experience and geographic location. The range for the Finance Team Manager position is $91,200-122,000/year