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Position Title: Chief Financial Officer
Status: Full-time, exempt
Location: Davis, California
Position Summary
Reporting to the President (CEO) of Freedom from Hunger, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), in this newly reconfigured role, will be a strategic business partner to the President and other members of the staff Leadership Team. Specifically, the CFO will align long-term and short-term financial and risk-management strategy, reporting, policies, procedures, and infrastructure to the organization's cross-organizational decision-making needs to ensure the organization is fiscally sustainable, efficient and nimble. By providing strong/accurate financial and risk-data and analyses, and streamlining processes, the CFO will collaborate extensively with high-impact non-financial leaders and teams, as well as the Board of Trustees. The CFO will lead and mentor a small team of finance professionals. This is an outstanding opportunity for a consultative and entrepreneurial financial leader to play a critical role in shaping the organization's future impact.
Reporting and Relationships
Supervisory: The CFO will supervise Finance staff.
Reporting: The CFO reports to the President of Freedom from Hunger.
Coordination: The CFO coordinates with Leadership Team, the Finance and Audit Committees of the Board of Trustees, all budget managers and field offices, the Human Resources Manager and the external auditors.
Essential Job Functions
Strategic Finance
- In collaboration with the Leadership Team, develop the medium- and long-term financial and investment strategy that supports the organization's mission and diverse programmatic activities and multiple social business models.
- Ensure that Finance delivers timely/accurate fiscal information and reporting, in the appropriate formats, for several key groups such as the Leadership Team, the Board of Trustees and the Program staff and, in partnership with the External Affairs team, external funders. Directly liaise with Finance and Audit Committees of the Board.
- Partner with President's Office, Programs and External Affairs teams on critical issues such as revenue/pricing approaches, and strategies for seeking and managing restricted and unrestricted grants, and develop an effective/sustainable financial model that integrates Freedom from Hunger's programmatic aims and long-term financial strategy. Create and propose scenarios, business models and frameworks that allow line staff to drive greater impact in their work while maintaining the organization's fiscal stability. Drive consensus and decisions around these models both internally and with the Board.
Financial Operations
- Nimbly manage resource allocations to ensure alignment with strategic and programmatic priorities.
- Simplify, streamline and actively communicate financial processes and procedures.
- Manage auditor, banking and investments relationships.
- By partnering with and ensuring service to the External Affairs team, develop accurate cash reports and forecasts of development pipeline and inform the leadership team to enable data to be used for decision-making purposes.
- Collaborate closely with all staff teams to create a more holistic, effective and efficient cross-organizational budgeting process by partnering with non-financial leaders and their teams; guide integration of financial systems into organization-wide project and content management systems.
Risk Management
- Collaborate closely with all staff teams to create a more holistic, effective and efficient cross-organizational risk-management process; guide integration of risk management systems into organization-wide project and content management systems.
- Manage relationships with external legal counsel and insurance brokers and providers to ensure legal compliance of organizational operations in numerous international locales.
- Oversee all contractual agreements, legal matters and real estate and other asset protection, including those in developing countries by working from afar and often through translators.
Team Leadership and Collaboration
- Play an active and vocal role on the functionally diverse and highly collaborative staff Leadership Team: propose ideas and be able to articulate their relationship to the organization's mission, and represent the organization's financial status in a timely, clear and constructive manner in order to contribute effectively to Leadership Team decisions.
- Lead, motivate and mentor a small professional staff.
- On an ongoing basis, align/adapt the Finance Team structure and roles/
responsibilities to best serve the organization.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- In-depth understanding of non-profit financial accounting and management, including fund accounting and relevant IRS regulations and requirements.
- Ability to understand and interpret complex legal agreements and insurance policies and to draft standard legal agreements and contracts with reference to existing legal language and templates, with the guidance of outside legal counsel as needed.
- Ability to clearly explain, both orally and in writing, complex financial and legal concepts and issues to non-financial and non-legal staff and Trustees.
- Ability to see big-picture vision while attending to details.
- Comfort with non-profit, mission-driven, participatory culture.
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- Excellent skills in Excel, accounting software packages, and quantitative analysis.
- Excellent listening and teamwork skills.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree with CPA; Master of Business Administration or equivalent is highly desirable.
- At least 10 years relevant work experience with supervisory responsibilities.
- Experience in overseeing the accounting and finances of a non-profit organization with a budget of at least $5 million annually; international operations experience highly desirable.
- Experience managing USAID grants and government reporting, cooperative agreements, and contracts desirable.
Physical and Environmental Conditions
This position does not require unusual demands for physical effort. Work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions typical of places such as offices, meeting or training rooms, residences, or commercial vehicles; e.g., use of safe workplace practices with office equipment, and/or avoidance of trips and falls, and observance of fire regulations and traffic signals.
Additional Comment
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made in appropriate circumstances to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Contact Information
If you enjoy a challenge, are interested in making a difference in the lives of others, and meet the desired qualifications, please send your resume to: Freedom from Hunger, Human Resources, 1644 Da Vinci Court, Davis, CA 95618 or e-mail your resume to jobs@freedomfromhunger.org. Freedom from Hunger is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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