Director of Finance

Job Description
KIPP Metro Atlanta seeks an experienced and knowledgeable, hands-on Director who will design, lead, and manage all daily financial planning and analysis for a $125M+ annual budget, including four legal entities. The Director will manage the execution of the annual budget process and systems, support the organization’s financial health by providing financial reports and dashboards, and support the organization’s growth by managing the long-term financial model.
Reporting directly to the CFO, the Director will work closely with the Finance Team, school-based Directors of Operations, and regional leadership team members to ensure accurate and effective budget management across multiple entities and funds, maximize revenue, and develop regional procurement processes, while creating standard operating procedures that ensure financial accuracy and provide maximum benefit to the organization. The Director will also contribute to planning for strategic growth in evaluating the financial implications of facilities financing and growth. The Director will manage the regional Finance Manager and regional Finance Analyst.
This job description is intended to describe the type of work being performed by a person assigned to this position. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required by the employee.
 
Finance Team Leadership and Management
Designs coaching sessions for direct reports to ensure they are meeting their performance metrics and development goals. Conducts regular performance evaluations for teammates.
Leads team meetings to uphold finance team culture and manages capacity to ensure the team is meeting its goals and the needs of the larger organization.
Supports direct reports’ development by providing feedback and conducting training on new skills 
Manages major federal grant (CARES) reimbursement process, monitoring data to identify potential errors, escalate to district partners when necessary
Builds and maintains relationships with district team to ensure compliance with various finance-related requests and requirements
Partners with CFO and Controller in leadership of finance function for the organization; informing the the department’s annual plans and executing the finance function’s annual plan; regularly reviewing key performance indicators and course-correcting when needed
Modeling Revenue and Expense Parameters
Designs a flexible, multi-year, complex financial model and updates it as events and new inputs change 
Monitors news and state legislature updates about events that will impact revenue 
Monitors APS board meetings and budget commission for updates to forecasted revenue and expenses
Monitors enrollment to gauge financial implications, communicating them to stakeholders throughout the enrollment season 
Develops and leads a values-based budget building process, including spending parameters and allocation methodology 
Leads and manages the execution of the budget development process including training for ~50 stakeholders dispersed across the organization
Evaluates new spending requests as they arise through the year
Ensures correctness of per-pupil district calculations and follow-up with district partners for corrections as needed 
Monitors major compliance submission (CPI) and estimate financial impact
Building and Improving Tools
Designs new tools and dashboards using our reporting solution, Vena, to support compliance with finance process and policy, and user access to and analysis of data
Collaborates with and supports improvements to other functions’ processes for improvement (example: deposit logs)
Acts as expert in troubleshooting bugs in Vena budget management tool 
Analyzing Financials, Troubleshooting Errors and Ad Hoc Analysis
Performs monthly budget-to-actuals analysis for entire organization ($125MM budget), sharing findings with CFO and designing strategies for going forward
Designs and supports the execution of strategic, financial analysis as an internal control for the accounting team
Leads the organization-wide forecast process
Creates reports and presents them to the Finance Committee 
Analyzes possible revenue maximization opportunities and other expenses (examples include: analyzing the financial impact of out-sourcing various support functions or health insurance funding model) to produce recommendations for leadership and the Finance Committee
Designs internal audit process and oversees the audit of at least 1 major policy per year
Designs and executes treasury management strategy
Managing Organization Budget
Execute monthly meetings with school and regional budget owners; prioritizing and planning for meetings with teammates or schools that are off track from goals
Partner with budget owners to problem solve and re-forecast financials.