School Finance Manager – CFO/Director of Finance

EdOps

full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $93,642 - $125,246 per year

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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.

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.