Finance Director

The Nature Conservancy

Finance Director providing financial leadership for the Nature Conservancy in North and South Carolina. Leading financial planning, forecasting, and stewardship activities for conservation efforts.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeDurham • North Carolina, South Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $97,700 - $137,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, with a strong focus on compliance with GAAP and not-for-profit accounting principles. Proven ability to lead and develop finance teams while providing strategic financial guidance to senior leadership.

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Financial PlanningBudget DevelopmentGAAP ComplianceStaff DevelopmentFinancial Analysis

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Hard Skills

Financial ReportingForecastingScenario ModelingResource AllocationFiscal ManagementData ManagementBudgetingAccounting PrinciplesFinancial AnalysisContract Compliance

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationCoachingCommunicationStrategic Thinking

Tools & Technologies

Excel SpreadsheetsInformation Management SystemsDatabases

Industry Keywords

Not-For-Profit AccountingU.S. Federal Uniform GuidanceGovernment Grants AccountingRegulatory StandardsFinancial Stewardship

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead financial planning activities including budgeting, forecasting, long-range financial planning, financial reporting, and fiscal year-end activities, and other strategic financial initiatives.
Deliver high-quality financial reporting, complex analysis, campaign development and support, scenario modeling, and recommendations that enable informed decision-making and support long-term financial sustainability.
Identify financial risks and opportunities, evaluate alternatives, and develop recommendations to strengthen financial performance, optimize resource allocation, and achieve organizational objectives.
Coordinate the delivery of finance services across the assigned pods while maintaining strong partnership and responsiveness to the needs of the embedded business unit.
Supervise, coach, and develop finance staff across the pod, establishing priorities, promoting collaboration, and fostering professional growth and accountability.
Serve as an active member of the leadership team, participating in leadership team meetings, staff meetings, retreats, and other forums to provide financial insight, support decision-making, and foster collaboration across the business unit.
Ensure effective stewardship of financial resources through strong internal controls, compliance with organizational policies, donor requirements, regulatory standards, and generally accepted accounting principles, as applicable.
Ensure accuracy, integrity, and effective management of financial data, processes, and controls to support decision-making.
Partner with philanthropy, conservation, operations, leadership and other functional teams to provide financial guidance for fundraising initiatives, grants, contracts, campaigns, and strategic projects.
Support governance activities by serving as a financial resource to state leadership, Boards of Trustees, Finance Committees, and other stakeholder groups, as appropriate.
Oversee financial aspects of contracts, agreements, and other business transactions, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and sound financial practices.
Partner with the Division Finance Director to implement division-wide financial strategies, strengthen processes and controls, promote consistency across the Southern Division, and drive continuous improvement.
Build and maintain trusted partnerships across the assigned business units, fostering collaboration, financial accountability, and shared ownership of financial outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field and 7 years related work experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience working with computer and information management systems, Excel spreadsheets and databases for financial analysis, fiscal management, and/or financial reports.
Experience recruiting, supervising and developing staff.
Experience developing budgets, performing high-level financial analysis, and recommending actions and providing partnership to leadership.
Experience acting as a consultant/advisor to senior executives.
Experience with accounting principles, practices and regulations.
Experience with GAAP and not-for-profit accounting principles, practices and regulations, including government grants accounting and reporting.
Experience in developing, directing and implementing multiple projects.
Experience, coursework or other training with U.S. Federal Uniform Guidance, state and local regulations, multilateral and international regulations, and standard contract clauses, as applicable.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health care benefits
Flexible spending accounts
401(k) plan with an 8% employer match
Parental leave
Accrued paid time off
Life insurance
Disability coverage
Employee assistance program
Other life and work well-being benefits