Chief Financial Officer
Corps Team
- Atlanta, GA
- $160,000-175,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Planning & Budgeting
- Establishes the annual budget and planning calendar, process, and templates
- Leads budget planning and preparation meetings across organization
- Prepares Budget Highlights and serves as a key staff liaison for Committees; coordinates final budget submission into Workday, codifies and distributes other key budget written documentation to team and Board
- Works with Senior Staff to create, maintain, and analyze business and financial models across a variety of areas of the museum and across campus.
- Maintain long-term financial model, including a rolling 10-year cash pro-forma
- Manages the accounting functions, ensuring timely and accurate recording of A/P, A/R, developing and maintaining systems and other controls as needed
- Prepares company-wide monthly financial statements, including narrative highlights and risks and opportunities
- Conducts monthly departmental financial reviews, discussing variances from budget and establishes corrective action plans as necessary
- Analyze financial trends and prepare commentary
- Serves a key staff liaison to the Finance & Operations Committees
- Prepares annual reconciliation of all restricted and endowment funds and balances
- Understands and mitigates key elements of the orgainzation's risk profile
- Constructs and monitors reliable control systems, including travel and contracts
- Maintain and update Policies and Procedure manual and documentation
- Creates and helps train non-financial staff on basic financial statement understanding and business economics to help improve higher level of financial literacy and connection between artistic and business implications.
- Oversees the recruitment, hiring and training of new staff in Finance and Accounting
- Oversees the routine workflow across the department
- Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations
- Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy
- Direct Reports include a Controller and A/P Coordinator
- Bachelors degree in business, ideally in finance or accounting, is required
- CPA certification or equivalent preferred
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience for a complex organization
- Experience with non-profits preferred
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Analytical & Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully.
- Customer Service Models and promotes a culture of service. Responds promptly to customer needs; Solicits customer feedback to improve service; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments.
- Communication - Able to clearly articulate instructions, procedures, and other information verbally and in writing as required.
- Teamwork - Gives and welcomes feedback; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
- Values Diversity Appreciates the value of working with people of varying demographics, backgrounds, and experiences.
- Managing People - Makes self-available to staff; Develops subordinates' skills and encourages growth; Improves processes, products, and services.
- Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
- Motivation - Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles and measures self against standard of excellence.
- Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position.
- Adaptability - Manages competing demands.