Responsibilities
- Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools, advising these schools’ leaders and Boards on matters pertaining to financial and operational policies, strategic decisions, and long-term financial planning.
- Produce forward-looking financial forecasts, set budgets, and lead finance strategy development in a way that aligns with school goals and reflects 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 endeavor to proactively identify and solve clients’ financial challenges - either directly, or through engaging 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. A CPA or extensive expertise is not required, but experience navigating accounting software and reading and analyzing financial reports is a must.
- Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs, because Excel will be your best friend at times.
- Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, as every school is different, and approaches and solutions often have to be customized.
- Excellent client communication and interpersonal skills. Comfort presenting and explaining information (both verbally and in writing) to people with varying financial literacy.
- Comfort interacting with, advising, and challenging C-Level leaders in schools.
- Strong organization and time management skills. There is a lot going on here.
- General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite) because we are not big fans of paper around here at EdOps.
- Typically, School Finance Managers have 10-15 years of work or post-secondary educational experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience leading audits.
Benefits
- Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence. That is what it is all about.
- Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts.
Team
Team size: over 100 professionals. Structure: School Finance Manager reports to Finance Director or above.
Additional Information
- Part time arrangements possible for exceptional candidates.
- We are serious about being the best possible partners to schools, and it shows in our 93% annual client retention rate.
