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.
- 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.
- 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
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: 100+. Structure: growing team
Additional Information
- We know that a team from a wide range of backgrounds with different life experiences, identities, opinions, and talents makes us better able to innovate and deliver on our mission of supporting schools to improve student outcomes. Every day we work to build an inclusive company culture where everyone can be themselves at work and do their best work.
