The School Finance Manager serves as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 independent or private schools, providing strategic financial leadership and advice aligned with each school's mission and goals. This role involves financial forecasting, budgeting, board engagement, and contributing to the development of EdOps' finance products and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 schools, advising school 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, either directly or by engaging other EdOps teams
- 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 is a must
- Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs
- Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent client communication and interpersonal skills, including 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
- General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite)
- Typically, School Finance Managers have 10-15 years of work or post-secondary educational experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading audits
Technical Stack
Excel, Google suite, accounting software
Benefits
- Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence
- Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts
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Compensation
$91,135-122,000/year
Work Arrangement
Remote (Global) — Location flexible; remote position; part time arrangements possible for exceptional candidates
