[Remote] Finance Team Manager- Independent Schools

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EdOps is hiring a Finance Team Manager to lead finance professionals and provide finance and accounting services to independent school clients. The role oversees staff development and quality control, manages outsourced controller responsibilities for at least one school, and contributes to improvements in EdOps’s finance service line and people operations.

Responsibilities

• As the front line manager of a team of analysts and finance specialists (generally teams of 2-5 but at least 2), deliver on all of the EdOps People Manager Expectations including:
• Train and coach staff as part of standard training sessions and beyond, so that they meet and exceed expectations for their role and are developing towards their goals
• 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. Adapt QC processes and cadence as necessary for individuals on their team while ensuring staff are in compliance with EdOps’s standard approach to QC
• 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) 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
• Some Managers, who will have a smaller team and/or staffed on fewer clients, can have specializations that encompass responsibilities not outlined here (e.g., overseeing changes to regional compliance, facilities accounting)

Skills

• Enjoy leading teams and helping them grow and navigate challenges they encounter in their work
• Accounting or finance professional who enjoys the work and is committed to delivering on the accuracy, clarity, and integrity that strong accounting and finance can bring to organizations
• Find meaning in applying your professional skills in support of mission-driven organizations
• Strong in independent problem solving
• Energized by being in a customer service role
• 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 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
• Experience working with schools or non-profit organizations is a plus
• Audit experience is a plus

Benefits

• The chance to challenge and develop your management skills while using them to help our team be better.
• Opportunity to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts.

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