CFO Finance & Accounting

The Financial Manager will oversee the financial operations of the organization, ensuring fiscal responsibility, compliance with funding requirements, and alignment with the CoC’s strategic goals. This role plays a critical part in managing grants, budgets, financial reporting, and internal controls to support the organization’s mission of ending homelessness and promoting housing stability.

Financial Management and Reporting

• Reconcile all cash accounts and investment accounts
• Process payroll
• Prepare year-end tax documentation
• Periodically reconcile grantmaking budgets to the general ledger
• Prepare and/or review journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations
• Deliver accurate consolidated and consolidating quarterly financial statements with supporting schedules and provide explanations for fluctuations from period to period
• Ensure alignment between program goals and financial resources, including HUD CoC grants, government contracts, and private funding.
• Forecast financial performance and identify risks or opportunities for cost savings.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for the Board of Directors, funders, and stakeholders.

Controls, Policies, and Process Excellence

• Ensure that internal controls and standard operating procedures are appropriate for BCEH across the cash receipts, cash disbursement, and payroll cycles, as well as general ledger financial reporting
• Maintain accounting policies (e.g., Audit, Tax, and Compliance Readiness
• Develop procedures and create and maintain files and documentation to meet audit, tax, and fund administration requirements and to ensure compliance with regulatory standards
• Stay current on new accounting pronouncements and industry trends

Oversee the use of accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Abila Fund Accounting, or similar) and financial management systems.

• Recommend and implement improvements to financial processes and systems.
• Ensure data integrity and security in financial systems.

Exceptionally strong accounting and financial analysis skills

• Excellent computer skills and technologically savvy (Microsoft Suite Products, financial management software)
• Data-driven, forward-thinking, adaptable, and flexible
• Candidates must share our belief that housing is a fundamental human right and demonstrate a commitment to promoting this value through their work

A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business administration

• Five to seven years of progressive accounting experience
• Experience with nonprofit accounting
• Experience managing HUD CoC grants, government contracts, or similar funding sources is highly desirable.
• Will prioritize candidates with lived experience of homelessness

Statement: We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all identities and lived experiences, including but not limited to women, people of color, individuals who identify as non-binary, trans, LGBTQIA+, and those with lived experience of homelessness or other marginalization.