M4BL Finance Manager

M4BL FINANCE MANAGER

Schedule: Full-time

Location: Remote, with 20% travel

Reports to: M4BL Senior Director of Finance & Operations

Salary: $102,000 - $127,000 with full health benefits for employee and dependents, employer-funded retirement plan, remote work stipend, and 28 days of vacation

MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014 and was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy. M4BL is an ecosystem of more than 150 Black led organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country that have come together with renewed energy, strategy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. Our ecosystem is united by core values and politics that seek to build an anti-capitalist, abolitionist and Black queer feminist future. The Movement for Black Lives’ budget has grown significantly to meet the needs of the ecosystem and the urgency of this political and cultural moment. M4BL’s donor base now consists of multi-year commitments from diverse funding streams across major individual donors, corporations, private, public and family foundations, trusts, and other assets. In this phase of our growth, M4BL is looking for new staff members to join an expanding finance and operations team.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a lead member of the finance team, the Finance Manager facilitates the Movement for Black Lives’ work by (A) supporting core financial functions for both C3 and C4 M4BL related entities, (B) providing accounting support, (C) ensuring compliance with financial practices, and (D) ensuring that all M4BL financial files and data are secure and appropriately accessible. The M4BL Finance Manager reports to the Senior Director of Finance and Operations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Finance Functions

• Ensure that all financial activities involving grant funds awarded are accounted for in compliance with rules and GAAP, grantor and/or agency specific requirements, and M4BL’s accounting policies and procedures
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports for departmental directors, and Leadership Team
• Prepare & monitor short- and long-term cash flow analysis
• Provide grant financial reports to funders and partners as requested.
• Ensure proper documentation, process improvement and internal controls
• Support annual budgeting and revenue goal-setting processes, including ongoing budget management
• Collect and organize the information needed to submit all contracts, process them, and keep track of outstanding invoices and payments, under supervision of the Senior Director of Finance and Operations
• Support the SDFO and Senior Directors Team in budget oversight, reporting, planning, and auditing
• Support staff in submitting expense and reimbursement requests on time
• Work closely with the Development team to ensure proper documentation of receipts
• In partnership with the Organizing Team manage the community disbursement process
• Collaborate with the SDFO and other senior team in other financial matters as required
• Submit invoices to the fiscal sponsor (Tides Advocacy)

Management of Finance Team

• Manage the finance team, ensuring roles and responsibilities listed in job descriptions are current and up to date
• Coordinate the team’s monthly schedule to meet reporting deadlines.
• Manage team meetings.
• Supervise the staff members on the finance team, providing guidance and support
• Manage training programs for the team
• Identify finance training and support needs for non-finance staff for skills improvement in the areas of accounting, reporting and internal control
• Support the Senior Director Finance & Operations in ensuring legal and regulatory documents are filed on behalf of the organization and its legal affiliates

Note: The Movement for Black Lives is committed to responding flexibly to changing circumstances and priorities which means that the expectations of every position are dynamic. This description reflects the assignment of essential functions, but does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Personal alignment with the M4BL’s vision and values
• Minimum of five years of finance-related work, including at least three years of experience in financial planning and analysis
• A minimum of five years of bookkeeping experience
• Proficiency using Excel for financial analysis
• Experience communicating financial concepts, report highlights, and recommendations to a broad audience
• Skilled at time management and project coordination
• Skilled at recognizing challenges, identifying potential solutions, and communicating challenges and solutions with multiple team members
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to build consensus and relationships among managers, partners, and staff
• Grounded and flexible with a high degree of integrity, transparency, and collaborative ability
• Able to pay close and consistent attention to details and accuracy
• Understanding of general finance and budgeting, including profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow management
• Strong background in managing robust cloud-based storage systems including policy development and day to day management within an active and fluid environment
• Strong proficiency with data management, review, analysis, documentation, and reporting
• Ability to work on a virtual team, in particular, and juggle multiple projects at once while proactively communicating with all in a virtual environment
• Demonstrated reliability, flexibility, and follow-up
• Deep commitment to relationship building, team building, and strategic action
• Prior experience working with Social Justice Movement organizations is required
• Experience in building out organizational structures is preferred

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY WORKPLACE

The Movement for Black Lives in partnership with its fiscal sponsor the Common Counsel Foundation is proud to be an equal employment workplace. We welcome and encourage job applicants who are motivated to work with us in addressing social injustice and those who have personal experience with injustice. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on any of the follow factors; race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and/ or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition (genetic characteristics, cancer or a record or history of cancer), military or veteran status, national origin, ancestry, disability (mental and physical including HIV/AIDS, cancer, and genetic characteristics), and genetic information.