[Hiring] Finance Manager @American Red Cross

Role Description

Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (Job Overview):

• The Finance Manager for Real Estate & Facilities leads the preparation, analysis, and interpretation of financial information that informs strategic planning and operational decision-making for Real Estate and Facility departments within the American Red Cross.
• This role synthesizes complex financial data, develops actionable insights, and delivers clear recommendations to senior leadership.
• This position will drive accountability through data, analytics, and performance measurement.
• It also will balance cost management with service quality and asset preservation.
• The Manager must be able to perform the analysis and reporting themselves as well as lead a team in doing so.
• This position will establish, maintain, and continuously improve financial systems, processes, and procedures to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
• The list of deliverables includes:
  • Annual budget cycle for 600 facilities
  • Multi-year forecasting
  • Monthly variance to budget analysis
  • Support for capital planning
  • Effective control environments
• The position partners with multiple stakeholders in a matrixed organization, including:
  • A centralized Real Estate function
  • A decentralized Facility Management team
  • Various business units
  • A Sustainability group
  • Finance
• The role balances priorities and deliverables across these diverse groups while maintaining high standards of quality and responsiveness.
• This position evaluates emerging tools and technologies to enhance financial efficiency and may design, build, and maintain financial data models (e.g., Power BI, Power Pivot, SQL based models, Python, etc.) that support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and enterprise decision making.
• A critical outcome is to drive cost efficiency in facility operations as the organization maintains good stewardship of the donor dollar.
• On-going analysis will measure building by building expense performance against financial expectations as well as identify cost outliers for follow-up action.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree – Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or Real Estate preferred
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible accounting or financial management and analysis experience
• Experience in Real Estate and/or Facility Management
• Strong financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and analytical skills
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and financial reporting tools
• Experience supporting operational business functions in a complex, multi-site environment
• Proven record of continuous improvement initiatives focused on operational efficiency, cost reduction, and service quality
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Minimum of three years in a supervisory (people manager) role
• Experience using large-scale automated financial systems (Oracle), software packages including Hyperion, CFS Business Objects (Webi), MS Excel and Power Query, BI, and Pivot

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CPA, CMA, or other relevant professional certification
• Experience supporting facility management, corporate real estate, healthcare facilities, manufacturing facilities, higher education, government, or large campus environments
• Experience with facility management systems:
  • Integrated workplace management systems (IWMS)
  • Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
  • Asset management programs
• Microsoft Power tools (BI, Query, Automate), SQL, Python, or similar data intelligence tools
• Knowledge of lease accounting standards and capital project accounting
• Financial management of facility portfolios, occupancy costs, and operational budgets
• Preventive and predictive maintenance program financial evaluation
• Development and monitoring of facility performance metrics, KPIs, and benchmarking
• Energy management, utility cost optimization, and sustainability-related financial analysis
• Facilities condition assessments and long-term capital investment planning
• Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis and return-on-investment (ROI) evaluations for facility investments
• Application of industry standards and best practices from organizations such as IFMA, BOMA, and CoreNet Global

Pay Information

The annual salary range for this position is $105,000 - $125,000. We do not offer an annual bonus for this role. Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. We will review specific salary information at the time of phone screening based upon your location & experience.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
• Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
• 401K with up to 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition