Finance Manager

Finance Manager

The Finance Manager, collaborating closely with the Director of Finance, has the opportunity to shape and make possible the achievement of our long-term vision. To realize the envisioned impact on reform, we must successfully create and execute our financial strategy as well as manage our day-to-day finances. The Finance Manager will help create a pathway to sustainability by working with operations, grant managers, and schools to improve processes and tools to produce actionable, timely and accurate financial statements and analysis.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of the organizations funding models, state and federal education funding sources, key expense drivers, and optimization opportunities.
• With the Director of Finance, oversee financial strategy, planning, and analysis.
• Oversees and guides the budgeting process for schools and the Home Office. Works with department heads and senior management to ensure strategic alignment with organizational goals. Enhances budgeting tools and identifies process improvements.
• Manages grant budgets and funding projections. Assists in preparing grant proposals and ensures compliance with funding guidelines. Plays a larger role in strategic fund management.
• Preparing quarterly forecasts and presenting to management and the board.
• Modeling strategic opportunities, such as new schools, facility financing, regional expansion, and grant applications
• Standard and ad hoc analysis and reporting of financial and operational aspects of the organization for management and the Board of Directors
• Responsible for managing and implementing a wide variety of strategic planning projects by working with multiple departments aimed at improving organizational efficiency and seeking creative solutions to some of the organization's most challenging issues.
• Assess current financial and accounting processes and identify areas for improvement, including streamlined processes that reduce time and errors from manual data entry and allow more time for value-adding analysis.
• Oversee development of detailed and interactive multiyear projection models consisting of Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flows on an individual school as well as organization-wide level, used to build annual budgets and forecasts.
• Develop deep understanding of Finance Team's service and work with school administrators and business managers to ensure the highest quality of service is achieved.
• Additional duties as needed.

Qualifications:

• Have bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• Have a minimum of 4-8 years in finance or accounting, including oversight of financial planning and analysis.
• Are experienced in managing projects.
• Drive strategic decisions with a mix of financial and operational data analysis.
• Have an excellent ability to develop and manage financial models and systems that provide actionable data and can be maintained and improved by staff.
• Are creative and thoughtful about how to manage financial behavior.
• Maintain positive relations with colleagues at all levels, including senior leadership, central office staff and school-site administrators and staff.
• Can simultaneously manage multiple projects while maintaining a firm grasp of individual project details.
• Are dependable, humble, have a sense of humor, and a rock-solid commitment to Green Dot's mission and the communities we serve.
• Will need to pass a TB test and background check at the time of offer.

Job Requirements:

• Work Hours: This position requires consistent attendance during scheduled hours, as flexibility is limited by classroom or operational requirements.
• Breaks: Breaks are structured within the workday and must align with operational needs and student care requirements. Extended or frequent breaks may not be feasible in this setting.

Compensation and Benefits:

The starting salary range for this role is $90,000 - $100,000. Please note that candidates who are new to their role or newly promoted can expect offers between the minimum and the mid-point of the range. To allow for salary progression over time, offers at the top of the range are rare. Individual education and experience will be considered when issuing offers. Green Dot also offers one of the most robust and comprehensive benefits packages in the industry (for both you and your dependents):

• Full-time employees are eligible to participate in Green Dot's benefit plans, effective on the first of the month following their date of hire.
• No-cost premium (for employee only) and low-cost premium (for entire family) HMO option via Anthem Vivity - a network that includes some of the best hospitals in the nation (Cedars Sinai, Huntington Memorial, Torrance Memorial, UCLA and more).
• Medical PPO and EPO options (visit for more information)
• Dental and vision care coverage (100% employer-paid options)
• Employee Assistance Program (100% employer-paid)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (100% employer-paid)
• Optional Term Life & AD&D Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance (100% employer-paid)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (health and dependent care)
• Monthly parking for Central Office-based employees (100% employer-paid)
• Wellness programs and resources
• Financial planning/coaching access
• Optional non-matching 401(k) plan
• Potential for remote work opportunities (occasional or recurring)
• Potential for annual performance-based compensation increases
• Potential for annual bonuses
• Potential for stipend work opportunities
• Approved family care and/or medical leave (unpaid)

Green Dot also offers generous paid time off for an overall work-life balance, while giving employees the opportunity to impact on a growing, mission-driven organization that is committed to the success of all students.

Green Dot Public Schools has embedded a diversity, equity and inclusion lens in our organizational culture, as well as in our educational and talent practices. We are committed to hiring those who reflect the diversity of our communities, and we recruit, employ, support, compensate and promote employees, without regard to their actual or perceived race, religious creed (including religious dress or grooming practices), color, national origin or ancestry (including native language spoken), physical or mental disability (including HIV or AIDS), medical condition (including cancer or genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), parental status, age (forty (40) and over), sexual orientation, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, citizenship, immigration status or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. Please note that Green Dot Public Schools is unable to sponsor any applicant for a temporary or permanent U.S employment-based visa, nor hire any applicant currently holding a temporary U.S. employment-based visa.

Green Dot California Central Office, Los Angeles, CA