Finance Director

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

The Finance Director will support the Executive Director in implementing board directives, maintaining strong financial position; growing the Center, pursuing fund-raising initiatives, facilitating program needs and managing both staff and compliance with existing grants. The Belle Center has a “cradle-to-success” philosophy that encompasses its services to children, adults and seniors, including childcare, senior services and workforce development programs.

Full time, exempt, Monday through Friday with occasional evening hours for events and meetings

What You'll Do

• 5+ years in nonprofit organizations, particularly social service, including progressively increasing managerial responsibilities
• 3+ years using QuickBooks in nonprofit environment
• Managing large state, federal and foundation grants, including budget management and reporting.
• Developing and maintaining agency-wide program goals, and planning of grant budgets to address ongoing program and implementation needs.
• Managing staff.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with culturally and linguistically diverse staff, client population, funding sources, and community stakeholders.
• Work with team members to improve operations, specifically develop and refine systems that can be utilized by all staff to improve work-performance and operational efficiency.
• Develop and provide regular reports on revenue-generating activities, identify new opportunities and plans to pursue them; develop short-term and long-term quality plans that encompass community and staff feedback.
• Oversee gift/pledge programs and execution of giving strategies such as individual giving campaigns/annual appeals, etc. through development of systems that maximize potential of campaigns.
• Develop and oversee financial reconciliation process with finance staff to ensure that gifts and contracts are aligned and recorded properly and to track gifts, contracts/MOU from qualification to collection.
• Work collaboratively with the Executive Director, Board of Directors and senior staff to share best practices, especially operational efficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet constant deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of management team and independently to accomplish mission-oriented goals.
• Proficiency with computers and willingness to learn and incorporate systems and technology into one’s work.
• Demonstrated ability to relate and maintain professional boundaries with young people and staff as a positive adult role model and leader.
• Ability to maintain trust, confidentiality and use appropriate discretion in working with our families and all stakeholders.
• Possession of a current NYS Driver's License, which must be presented at time of appointment and maintained during employment.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in public administration, business administration, social work, or related.
• Spoken Spanish language proficiency.
• Proven grant writing experience or other development/capital campaign experience.
• Ability to lead program development and monitor program outcomes.

Benefits

• Full Time, exempt, Monday through Friday with occasional evening hours for events and meetings

  Competitive compensation, based on experience with benefits package.

About Us

The Belle Center is a place where all are welcomed and each child and their unique culture is celebrated. We are determined to unlock an individual’s potential to advocate, educate and lead tomorrow’s society into a better stronger Buffalo! 

The Belle Center Mission - To offer innovative, educational, social and community building services for children, youth, senior citizens and families living in Western New York