Director of Finance

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

As a Director of Finance at Communities Connected for Kids, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:

• Opportunities to make a positive impact in the lives of children in need of support
• Unique rewards that come from seeing families improve and flourish with the services you referred them to
• A hybrid remote work environment, allowing for flexibility and limited in person or in-office expectations
• Quality comprehensive Benefits including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and competitive 403b retirement plus 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires!  Home | BenePortal
• This position requires a background screening in accordance with FS 435.12.  See the following link for more information:

Our Communities Connected for Kids Program provides services for children and families in the child welfare system, to ensure a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment. Based out of Port Saint Lucie, FL, this position leads the operations of financial accounting, accounts payable, and accounts receivable to ensure timely and accurate financial records, financial reporting, analysis, and forecasting. This position requires the following essential job functions and professional skills:

Essential Functions:

• Oversee the daily operations of all financial functions.
• Responsible for timely and accurate data in the accounting software system, state-approved web-based system (FSFN/CCWIS), and ancillary systems, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Oversee cash, accounting, asset management, and banking relationships, including cashflows, planning and ensuring availability of funds as needed.
• Effectively leverage funding sources to maximize and enhance programmatic service delivery systems.
• Oversee processing deposits, disbursements, petty cash and client fund transactions.
• Assist CFO with month-end closings, journal entries, reconciliations, analyses, budgeting, projections, and financial reporting, ensuring compliance with contracts, laws and regulations, grants, and policies, and sharing with Board of Directors, Senior Management, and other departments and stakeholders as required.
• Develop and maintain appropriate internal controls, policies and procedures, and effective mechanisms to mitigate risk (such as insurance and safety).
• Communicate with vendors, employees and other stakeholders to resolve any discrepancies and/or field inquiries.
• Understand and apply non-profit administrative cost principles.
• Responsible for being knowledgeable in funding streams and FSFN/CCWIS as they relate to eligible client services within multiple DCF programs, including knowledge of DCF’s Other Cost Accumulators (OCAs) and how they fit into financial operations.
• Coordinate independent and other audits, reviews and inquiries, providing information and responses as needed.
• Ensures timely and proper filing of tax returns.
• Responsible for directing and overseeing Finance, Eligibility, and Master Trust departments, and providing administrative support, backup and cross-training for CFO, Finance, Eligibility, Master Trust and related functions.
• Attends staff meetings, in-service training and other meetings, staffings, conferences or other events as necessary – virtual and in-person. Requires periodic travel.
• Other duties as assigned.
• This list of essential functions is not intended to be exhaustive. CCKids reserves the right to modify this job description to ensure compliance with the actual job requirements.

Lead FSFN/CCWIS Data Entry Functions

• Oversee the operations and approvals of client-related services and payments in FSFN/CCWIS, including the input, processing and approvals of foster board, adoption subsidy, stipend batches, respite payments, group home invoices as well as any ancillary client-related payments ensuring timeliness, completeness and accuracy.
• Oversee and maintain data in FSFN/CCWIS, including, but not limited to, funding sources, providers, service types, placement and payment activities.
• Generate & pull reports for review to ensure payment issuance accuracy, and for reconciliation, reporting, analyses and special projects.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

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Responsibilities

About Communities Connected for Kids

Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned or neglected children in our care. We are responsible for the safety and well-being of each one of them. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services. If you think about it in terms of building a house, we are the general contractor of the child-welfare system. The system is the house, we are the contractor, and our network of service providers are the subcontractors we pull together to make the house strong and ready to live in.

Who We Serve

Communities Connected for Kids offers a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. We offer our services through a wide variety of approaches including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults.

In the tradition of true partnership, Communities Connected for Kids works closely with several agencies that are funded through Medicaid, substance abuse/mental health or private funds to offer a continuum of treatment services otherwise unfunded by Community Based Care dollars. These partnerships help families strengthen their capacity to care for their children or help children heal from trauma they’ve experienced.

Mission

Our mission is to enhance the safety, permanency and well-being of all children in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast through a community network of family support services.

Values

Communities Connected for Kids values are:

We are accountable to the children and families we serve and to the communities in which we live.  We ensure services provided are:

• Individualized, based on the strengths and needs of the families we serve
• Respectful and culturally sensitive
• Effective and accountable
• Evidence based and data driven
• Permanency focused
• Ensure financial and human resources are managed and maximized  

Our Vision

We envision a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment so all children grow to their full potential.

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

Required:  Bachelor’s degree in general business, accounting, finance or related field from an accredited school or university.

Preferred:  Master’s degree in general business, accounting, finance or related field from an accredited school or university.

EXPERIENCE: 

Required:  A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in accounting and/or finance.  

Preferred:  Prior experience in non-profit, child welfare, Medicaid, and/or FSFN.