Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
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The Deputy Chief of Finance plays a critical role in supporting the CFO and financial leadership team in developing and executing on KIPP New Jersey & Miamis financial priorities. The Deputy Chief of Finance drives the financial teams planning and performance management systems works relentlessly in service of the teams operational efficiency and drives special projects on behalf of the CFO. They facilitate the annual resource allocation and budgeting processes for the organization which has a $250 million annual operating budget ensuring effective linkage to strategic priorities adherence to fiscal requirements strong collaboration across key stakeholders and clear decisionmaking and communication processes. The Deputy Chief of Finance also ensures healthy and efficient financial operations within our schools and central teams as well as streamlined and effective communication with our boards of directors and board finance committee.
Heres what youll be doing:
Team Planning GoalSetting and Performance Management
- Support CFO and other financial leaders with the development of annual priorities that are responsive to organizationwide priorities and external requirements.
- Create and turnkey processes and systems to enable all of the CFOs teams to set annual and quarterly goals and track progress to goals.
- Support CFOs teams in executing individual performance management in an aligned manner including for leaders in accordance with the Talent teams vision and milestones as well as for individual contributors (may include creating aligned tools calendar of deadlines etc..
- Design and execute cascading meeting structures and reporting mechanisms designed to support the effectiveness of our financial functions and to keep the CFO and other leaders apprised of our financial performance.
- Proactively identify opportunities for strategic collaboration across the various financial functions.
- Proactively ensure financial teams are planning and operating with frontline input.
Annual OrganizationWide Financial Planning
- Facilitate the organizationwide annual resource allocation process ensuring coherence with the organization and regionlevel annual strategies responsiveness to the organizations financial context and effective systems and structures for inputgathering and decisionmaking.
- Work collaboratively with network and regionbased leadership team members to cascade key updates and decisions from resource allocation process to relevant stakeholder groups within the organization.
- Ensure all relevant leaders and others with budgetary responsibilities are trained to effectively participate in the annual budgeting process.
- Facilitate the organizationwide budgeting process including ensuring that the outcomes of the resource allocation process are reflected in the upcoming years budget and that the budgets overall accurately reflect our priorities and expectations for the upcoming year.
Fiscal Health in Schools and Central Support Teams
- Drive the development and as needed periodic revisiting of a vision for excellent fiscal health at the school and central support team level which emanates from our metrics for fiscal health at the network/organizational level.
- Provide training expectations and tools to budget managers across our schools and central support teams on how to effectively manage a budget.
- Provide training expectations and resources to budget managers and other relevant leaders across our schools and central support teams on all topics related to financial operations in our organization including e.g. critical financial policies purchasing vendor payments inschool cash management etc.
- Partner with network and regionbased leaders to develop and support accountability measures and tracking for performance relative to fiscal health goals as well as interventions where performance is not meeting the necessary standard.
Board and Finance Committee Engagement
- Support CFO and other financial leaders with the development of annual scope and sequence for engagement with the various Boards of Directors and Board Finance Committee.
- Facilitate as project manager the agendasetting scheduling and materials creation for discussions with the Boards and Board Finance Committee; on selected topics as requested by the CFO create and/or present materials.
- Capture meeting decisions action items and commitments and ensure followthrough by members of the management team.
Special Projects
- Oversee the objectivesetting scoping and communications for special projects that require seniorlevel leadership and are not definitively best driven by a specific one of the financial functions.
- Ensure special projects work ultimately gets effectively embedded into financial functions steady state work
Qualifications :
Must Haves:
- Bachelors degree required Masters degree in a related field preferred
- 5 years of progressively increasing leadership experience in the context of a school network
- Demonstrated unrelenting commitment to continuous improvement resultsorientation and prioritization of the most important tasks
- Ability to thrive in the face of ambiguity and to support stakeholders through uncertainty and transition
- Excellent relationshipbuilding skills with an ability to prioritize negotiate and work with a variety of stakeholders; track record of contributing to a collegial working environment
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to analyze financial data and provide actionable insights
- Ability to assess and enhance financial processes for efficiency and accuracy
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with a demonstrated ability to work independently in a fastpaced environment lead projects meet multiple concurrent deadlines and organize time and priorities
- Personal qualities of honesty integrity credibility humility commitment to quality and dedication to the mission of KIPP New Jersey & Miami
- Robust knowledge of and passion for improving K 12 public education
- Relevant experience in organizations with $200 million annual budget preferred ideally in education nonprofits
Additional Information :
Compensation & Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary KIPP TEAM & FAMILY offers a full comprehensive benefits plan including health care retirement a school laptop and transportation benefits for TEAMmates commuting into New Jersey from the New York City area.
KIPP New Jersey KIPP Miami is an equal opportunity employer
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
