Vice President, Finance Controller

Summary

Join KIPP Foundation as their Vice President, Finance, Controller! This leadership role oversees all daily accounting operations, financial reporting, and compliance for a $100MM+ annual budget. You will lead a team of 9, manage the annual audit process, and provide guidance to finance leaders across the KIPP network. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in nonprofit accounting, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to KIPP's mission. This full-time, exempt role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the option for remote work. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, and a CPA or MBA is preferred. KIPP Foundation values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business or 10 years of equivalent experience
• Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
• Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment
• Uses data, research, and analysis to set a high bar of excellence for goal setting
• Effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates, and teams to optimizes goal attainments
• Effectively sets and fosters a culture that enables and celebrates teammates’ achievements and goals attainment
• Able to build and align goals and project plans with organization priorities
• Develops and codifies processes that promote coordination, efficiency and efficacy across KF and the Network
• Prioritizes processes that ensure sustainability and scalability
• Ensures team is finding efficiencies through process implementation and improvement, resource sharing, or other methods
• Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the teams work to organizational goals
• Effectively prioritizes and delivers on work products that ensure sustainability and scalability of work
• Develops and implements agile project plans that ensure cross functional collaboration an resource sharing to ensure achieving organizational goals
• Creates and ensures systems are in place for knowledge management
• Effectively ensures strong professional development and coaching for teammates through layers
• Proficient in the mechanics of succession management and performance management for teammates
• Able to coach manager of managers
• Skilled at setting and fostering a positive team culture in which teammates feel ownership and accountability for their own and the broader team’s work and results
• This also includes financial leadership, such as a strong example and effectively holds team members accountable to organizational financial guidelines
• Effectively articulates case for change to multiple functions, teams, and/or offices through clear and compelling presentations, tailoring communications and engagement approach for different audiences
• Effectively translates vision into actionable plans among across team stakeholders
• Champions KF and networkwide change with all stakeholders
• Expertise and experience with nonprofit accounting systems and fund accounting, with a strong preference for experience in public accounting
• Exemplary integrity, discretion, and cultural competence while working with staff and with confidential/sensitive information
• Strong commitment to providing superior customer service
• Strong management skills, including people management, team management, and project management
• Comfort and desire to work with in a collaborative, agile, outcomes-focused, equity-driven, and learning-oriented team

Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily operations of the accounting department including control systems, transaction-processing, and policies and procedures
• Manage month-end and year-end closing process
• Develop and maintain a well-documented and effective system of finance and accounting procedures to ensure financial controls are implemented and monitored
• Develop, analyze and make recommendations relating to accounting and financial data processing systems to ensure effective and efficient financial operations
• Assist CFO in the development of accounting and financial policies and procedures, review current procedures and monitor for compliance
• Provide effective training to end users to ensure organizational compliance with financial policies
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings
• Safeguard assets and ensure accurate and timely recording of all transactions by implementing disciplines of internal audits, controls and checks across all departments
• Serve as the primary contact during audit season for all audit requests, in coordination with the managing director of finance (including the workers' compensation audit)
• Prepare financial reports to key stakeholders, including partnering with development and grants team to provide reports to funders and to the federal government
• Providing financial reporting packages to Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Leadership Team
• Oversee the annual financial statement and A-133 Single audit
• Serve as member of the Expanded Leadership Team and contribute to org-wide initiative, while always operating as a culture and brand ambassador for KIPP to both internal and external audiences
• Lead, manage, and coach a high-performing team of fiancé professionals
• Advise and consult finance leaders across KIPP network to promote financial best practices
• Support KIPP regions in maintaining strong financial operations by setting the bar of excellence for financial management, providing guidance to execute and building connections across regions through finance communities of practice
• This includes supporting accurate accounting practices, managing the purchasing function, fiscal compliance, and strengthening finance internal controls
• This role will offer hands-on support to regions requiring intensive assistance and leverage KIPP Foundation resources to enhance financial operations and long-term sustainability across the network

Preferred Qualifications

CPA Designation or MBA

Benefits

• 26 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+)
• 100% paid parental leave
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts