Director, Transformation Adoption – Finance Transformation Office
WillHire
School Finance Manager – CFO/Director of Finance
EdOps
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $93,642 - $125,246 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools, advising these schools’ leaders and Boards on financial and operational policies, strategic decisions, and long-term financial planning.
- Produce forward-looking financial forecasts, set budgets, and lead finance strategy development aligned with school goals and 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 proactively identify and solve clients’ financial challenges, or engage 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.
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; experience navigating accounting software and reading and analyzing financial reports.
- Intermediate Excel knowledge (vlookups, sumifs).
- Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent client communication and interpersonal skills.
- Comfort presenting and explaining information to people with varying financial literacy.
- Comfort interacting with, advising, and challenging C-Level leaders in schools.
- Strong organization and time management skills.
- General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite).
- Typically, School Finance Managers have 10-15 years of work or post-secondary educational experience.
- Nice to have: Experience leading audits.
