Remote School Finance Manager, CFO/Director of Finance

Summary

Join EdOps as a School Finance Manager and lead finance strategy development for a portfolio of schools, advising leaders on financial policies and long-term planning. Drive innovations to our products and contribute to the development of best practices in school finance.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence. That is what it is all about
• Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts
• EdOps salaries are commensurate with relative experience and geographic location. The range for the School Finance Manager position is $91,135-122,000/year