CHS Inc.

Stewardship Finance & Administration Lead

CHS Inc.

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Inver Grove Heights • Minnesota • United States

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

Salary

💰 $103,200 - $172,400 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Serve as functional financial authority for all CHS Foundation and Community Giving grantmaking activity, ensuring compliance with IRS regulations, GAAP, and internal controls.
  • Lead annual budget development, forecasting, and multi-year financial modeling for payout, commitments, and program strategies.
  • Develop and manage cash flow forecasting for Foundation liquidity, endowment payouts, and multi-year grant liabilities.
  • Collaborate with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and external auditors to ensure accurate financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
  • Interpret financial statements, endowment performance data, and fund restrictions to provide strategic recommendations to Stewardship leadership.
  • Own system architecture, coding structures, permissions, and workflow configuration.
  • Design and maintain application, reporting, and payment workflows; optimize user experience.
  • Maintain data governance standards and produce complex portfolio and financial reporting for leadership and boards.
  • Lead annual external audit preparation, coordinating documentation, evidence, and corrective actions.
  • Ensure compliance with IRS regulations, including 501(c)(3) verification, private foundation rules, and expenditure responsibility.
  • Maintain internal policies and implement updates required by regulatory or operational changes.
  • Supervise, coach, and develop the Grants Specialist; oversee workload, performance, and skill development.
  • Define and continuously improve standard operating procedures, RACIs, and service-level expectations.
  • Manage select Foundation program portfolios including strategy implementation, partner engagement, and outcome measurement.
  • Conduct site visits, relationship management, funding recommendations, and final reporting for assigned portfolio.
  • Develop KPIs, logic models, and annual program performance insights.
  • Lead the development of Stewardship’s contribution to the CHS Sustainability Report, ensuring grantmaking, volunteerism, and community impact data are accurate, compelling, and aligned to enterprise reporting frameworks.
  • Synthesize quantitative and qualitative impact data (e.g., outcomes, KPIs, stories, multi‑year trends) into clear narratives and metrics.
  • Translate financial, operational, and program data into insights to support strategic planning and board decision-making.
  • Support cross-enterprise initiatives including Spirit of Service Days, Giving Campaign, and volunteer engagement.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of progressive experience in grants finance, foundation financial management, nonprofit accounting, or philanthropic operations.
  • Advanced financial acumen, including experience with foundation budgeting, multi-year grant liabilities, endowment spending policies, and financial reporting.
  • Demonstrated expertise with grants management systems (Blackbaud preferred) and internal control frameworks.
  • Experience translating grantmaking outcomes and community impact data into narratives and metrics for corporate sustainability, ESG, or annual social impact reports.
  • History of supervising staff and leading complex cross-functional projects and processes.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to translate financial concepts for non-financial audiences.
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • wellness programs
  • life insurance
  • health and dependent care spending accounts
  • paid time off
  • 401(k)
  • pension
  • profit sharing
  • short- and long-term disability
  • tuition reimbursement
  • adoption assistance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingcash flow forecastingfinancial reportingdata governancegrant managementbudget developmentKPI developmentnarrative synthesisinternal control frameworksfinancial statement interpretation
Soft Skills
analytical skillsorganizational skillscommunication skillsleadershipstaff supervisionrelationship managementstrategic planningcoachingcollaborationprocess improvement