[Hiring] Finance Team Manager @EdOps

Role Description

EdOps' Finance Team Manager position is an ideal role for accounting or finance professionals interested in using their skills to manage a team of finance professionals and directly serve independent school clients in a leadership role within a mission-driven context. The Finance Team Manager position is designed for individuals with significant experience managing professionals. As the manager of a team of finance staff, the Finance Team Manager provides quality control to ensure work best meets the needs of schools. The manager is also responsible for staff support, developing staff technical and soft skill competencies, and guiding staff career paths.

Reports to the Director or Senior Finance Team Managers. Location flexible (this is a remote position). Part time arrangements possible for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams of finance or accounting professionals.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Experience with accounting systems (e.g. QuickBooks Online) and capacity to learn new systems.
• Ability to write and clearly document processes and procedures.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Ability to interface professionally with clients.
• Typically, Finance Team Managers have 10+ years of work or post-secondary educational experience, including 3+ years of management or supervisory experience.
• Experience working with schools or non-profit organizations is a plus.
• Audit experience is a plus.

Requirements

• Train and coach staff as part of standard training sessions and beyond.
• Guide and support staff's career paths through discussion, navigation, and collaborative planning.
• Develop and conduct Annual Reviews, Mid Year Deep Dives for direct reports.
• Address underperformance and develop PIPs as necessary.
• Decide on staff promotion timing (with approval of the Director).
• Create and maintain a team work culture that is inclusive and fair.
• Resolve staff issues as necessary.
• Informing upwards on trends.
• Ensure that their team's client work meets EdOps quality standards.
• Provide necessary project management to ensure timely completion of EdOps work.
• Support in the accounting review of schools and implement team specific QC mechanisms.
• Problem solve or find solutions for complex parts of the work.
• Serve as an outsourced controller for at least one school.
• Close the books monthly/quarterly/annually and support the preparation of financial statements.
• Oversee federal, state, and local grants administration.
• Serve as a school's primary contact during annual financial audits and 990 preparation.
• Support the annual budgeting process in partnership with School Finance Managers.
• Liaise with a school's state education authority (SEA) as needed.
• Contribute to EdOps's continual improvement of finance service line efficiency and accuracy.
• Make recommendations to optimize people operations wide practices and approaches.
• Play an active role in the ongoing recruitment process of new staff.
• Some Managers may have specializations that encompass responsibilities not outlined here.

Benefits

• The chance to challenge and develop your management skills.
• Opportunity to work with colleagues committed to kids and supportive of each other's efforts.
• EdOps salaries are commensurate with relative experience and geographic location.
• The range for the Finance Team Manager position is $96,200-128,000/year.

Company Description

EdOps is a Washington, DC-based B-Corp focused on minimizing the financial, operational, and compliance demands of running a school and supporting education leaders with data-driven insights to improve student outcomes. We work with all the schools that need us, with a growing team of 100+ professionals working with over 100 schools and school networks nationwide. We are recognized as a Washington Post Top Workplace.

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If you are skilled in your field, excited by our mission, ready to learn, and looking for a place where you can be yourself, we want to hear from you!

What you can expect from the hiring process:

• Application Review
• First Review
• Performance Task
• Final Interviews (Behavioral, Technical, Values)
• Reference Check
• Offer