Responsibilities
- Lead all accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting across accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems in full compliance with U.S. GAAP and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee month-end and fiscal year-end close processes, driving consistency, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
- Manage all tax and regulatory reporting, including federal, state, and local filings (e.g., IRS Forms 990/990T, charitable registrations, gift annuity filings).
- Remain current on emerging accounting standards and pronouncements, assessing implications and ensuring their appropriate application to Feeding America’s financial statements and filings.
- Partner with the Financial Planning and Reporting team to develop accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports that meet internal and external stakeholder needs.
- Lead and coordinate the annual external audit, including preparing required workpapers and serving as primary liaison to external auditors.
- Maintain and continuously strengthen an effective system of internal controls over financial operations and reporting.
- Conduct bi-monthly payroll audits in collaboration with Human Resources to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Support the CFO in preparing materials and engaging the Board’s Audit & Risk Management Committee on trends, financial operating models, and risk considerations.
- Provide leadership in facilitating the organization’s risk management processes, including the operational risk assessment, the disruptive risk identification process, and the strategic-planning risk process; ensure risks are consistently assessed, documented, and integrated into financial and organizational decision-making.
- Partner with the Vice President, Legal Counsel to oversee business insurance management, ensuring coverage aligns with organizational needs, emerging risks, and regulatory requirements.
- Optimize banking relationships and oversee treasury activities, including cash positioning, cash flow management, and investment-related accounting processes.
- Develop and implement strategies that strengthen liquidity, enhance cash management efficiency, and support organizational financial health.
- Oversee the structure and performance of the accounting department, ensuring roles, workflows, and processes are designed to achieve annual goals and long-term priorities.
- Analyze existing processes and systems; partner with the CFO, IT, and administrators to streamline workflows, leverage technology, and establish standard operating procedures that improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Serve as the business owner for financial systems, guiding system enhancements, data governance, and future modernization or implementation efforts to ensure the accounting function is well supported.
- Assess, develop, and where needed, draft and update accounting policies and procedures to strengthen accounting effectiveness, support consistency, and guide staff.
Requirements
- 10+ years of successful senior financial management experience is required with some prior non-profit finance experience preferred.
- Expertise in U.S. GAAP, nonprofit financial reporting, and regulatory requirements, including Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
- Direct and concise communication skills.
- Active listener.
- Ability to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers.
- Recognized success in developing and monitoring systems to manage both internal operations and programmatic work that involve high levels of collaboration, particularly with program directors and other senior leadership.
- Strong technical fluency with financial systems, ERP platforms, reporting tools, and data governance principles, with a demonstrated ability to drive modernization, standardization, and process improvement.
- Demonstrated experience in enterprise risk management.
- Keen analytic, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision making in a complex organization; demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities and guiding investment in people and systems.
- An accessible, visible, and flexible management style that inspires trust and confidence in staff to work hard and well together.
- CPA is required.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- Feeding America’s goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.
- Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
