Responsibilities
- Serve as an outsourced accountant and financial advisor for a portfolio of schools
- Oversee all day-to-day full-cycle accounting and compliance aspects of the schools, including accounts payable, payroll, grants administration, and regulatory compliance.
- Close the books monthly/quarterly/annually and prepare monthly financial statements.
- Project manage schools’ annual fiscal audit, completing necessary end of year statements and schedules, serve as schools' primary contact during field work and assist with 990 preparation
- Analyze, model, and solve problems on a wide range of business issues.
- Liaise with the state education authority (SEA), and the charter authorizer as relevant.
- Partner with EdOps School Finance Manager to provide high quality customer service.
- Invest in other members of the EdOps team, supporting their efforts and demonstrating a desire to contribute to the growth of the internal team.
Requirements
- Strong organization and time management skills. There is a lot going on here.
- Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs, because Excel will be your best friend in your everyday accounting and financial work.
- Direct work experience and/or degree in finance or accounting or related field.
- Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, as every school is different, and approaches and solutions often have to be customized.
- Ability to collaborate with people at every level of an organization with a strong desire to help others do their best work.
- Strong client communication and interpersonal skills, including presenting and explaining info (both verbally and in writing) to people with varying financial literacy. In one day, you might email a school business manager about reclassifying expenses and answer an auditor’s technical accounting question.
- General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite, financial systems) because we are not big fans of paper at EdOps.
- Work experience: typically, Finance Specialists have 5-8 years of work or post-secondary educational experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience with accounting software such as QuickBooks, Intacct or Blackbaud
- Know schools and how they work
Benefits
- Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence. That is what it is all about.
- An opportunity to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: over 100 professionals
Additional Information
- Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Open to learning and growing in these areas together so that each of us can contribute to building a culture of equity and support our schools in advancing these values.
