Senior Finance Manager

This position will be responsible for the financial management of organization-wide grants, contracts, and department budgets. Impact Justice is a mid-size nonprofit of 90 employees and an annual budget of approximately $20 million. This position performs a broad range of fiscal, budgetary, and analytical duties, including managing accounts receivable in the monitoring of the organization’s cash flow. This position supports the Associate Director of Finance and contributes to organization functions including the annual audit, board of directors meeting presentations, and senior leadership groups. This position manages 1-3 staff.

Who You Are

You are an experienced finance professional comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy. You have experience managing a diverse portfolio of funding sources including private, foundation, and government grants and contracts. You have excellent skills using Microsoft Excel and financial modeling abilities. You have refined critical, analytical, and problem-solving skills and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.

That said, we know there are great candidates who may not think they fit into what we’ve described above or who have important skills we haven’t thought of. If that is you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself! And if you’re a formerly incarcerated individual, someone who has a family member who is or has been incarcerated, or otherwise have direct experience with the criminal legal or juvenile legal systems, we will be particularly excited to hear from you.

What You Will Do

Your core responsibilities will be:

• Management – Overseeing staff in the completion of their duties, including coaching, training and mentorship. Responsible for the work product/output of the AR/AP teams to ensure that both bills for payment and bills for collection are processed timely and accurately. Responsible for team output of budget v. actual reporting and budget management across the organization.
• Budget & Variance Analysis – Managing budgets in compliance with each funding source’s various requirements, including state and federal guides, the Code of Federal Regulations, and donor restrictions. Position conducts variance analysis to assess and correct spending trends, monitor spending over time, and compare spending between fiscal years. Position will build and maintain strong budget models and have the ability to work within a cloud-based system to track budget vs. actual.
• Compliance & Risk Management – Reviewing budgets and spending to ensure that staff are adhering to both internal and external policies; includes strong understanding of internal controls and ability to implement these across finance and program team to ensure that month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close are complete and audit-ready. Participating in audit requests as assigned. Elevating anomalies or trends to leadership and ensuring proper accounting of all expenditures. Position will have a strong grasp of the federal cost principles and what is an allowable vs. unallowable expense, including advising on federal spending requirements under the 2CFR200. Position will understand and advise on grants management and subrecipient monitoring and passthrough funding.
• Administering Online Systems – Maintaining budgets in cloud software, Netsuite Oracle, as well as supporting Netsuite upkeep to ensure codes are up to date. Support in customizing platform workflows and budget uploads. Ability to create custom reports and support with integrations to outside software such as the HRIS system, Bill.com, etc.
• Programmatic Collaboration – Working with program directors to understand budget needs to build these into future budgets, Requests for Proposals, and budget re-forecasting. Ability to strongly communicate financial topics and financial health to non-finance staff, including securing buy-in of program teams on spending plans and adhering to budget and internal/external guidelines.

Education / Experience Level

Successful candidates typically have at least a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting or related field, or 4 years equivalent combination of education and experience, along with 5+ years of budget and finance work experience At least 2-3 years of people management experience.

Required Qualifications

1. High level of decision making, autonomy, communication, and accountability.
2. Excellent Excel and financial modeling ability
3. Deep understanding and familiarity with federal reporting and federal regulations.
4. Successful experience managing a variety of foundation, local, state, and federal grants, with Grants under Management totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
5. Experience administering and managing contracts and agreements, including to sub-contractors and sub-awardees. Federal grants management preferred.
6. Knowledge and experience with 2CFR200, OMB circulars, and GAAP.
7. Strong verbal and written communication skills.
8. Refined critical, analytical, and interpretive thinking and problem solving.
9. Considerable understanding of both granular and organization-wide financial management.
10. Comfortable managing confidential information and intra-organizational dynamics in organizations with 25 - 100 staff.
11. Experience coordinating multiple stakeholder meetings.

The position will be paid $105k-$120k. Salary offers are based on the candidate's experience and qualifications and our practice of maintaining salary equity within the organization. The benefits that come with working at Impact Justice include medical, dental, and FSA plans, significant vacation and wellness leave, and immediate vesting in our 401K with a generous match.

This is a full-time, salaried position. The candidate should be located in Oakland, California and will work under a hybrid schedule. Applicants in Los Angeles, California or Washington, D.C. will be considered.

We ARE NOT considering remote staff for this position.

If this all sounds like a good fit for you, please include your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are particularly interested in the role and why we should be particularly interested in you!

We plan on making decisions on a rolling basis, so the earlier you apply the better.

Hiring Process

Elements of the Impact Justice hiring process may include phone screen interviews, candidate exercises (written or presentations), Zoom interviews, in-person interviews, and reference checks. Candidates are welcome to ask for alternative arrangements in the process if needed (for example, conducting an interview via phone rather than Zoom), Impact Justice will do our best to accommodate reasonable requests. Please communicate any alternative arrangements requested to the hiring manager.