School Finance Specialist

March 16

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Description

• Serve as an outsourced bookkeeper and financial advisor for a portfolio of schools, providing key information to these schools’ leaders and Boards on matters pertaining to financial and operational policies, strategic decisions, and long-term financial planning. • Oversee all day-to-day accounting and financial aspects of the schools, including accounts payable, payroll, grants administration, and financial compliance. • Maintain accounting books and prepare monthly financial statements and financial projections. • Support the annual budgeting process in partnership with school leadership. • Serve as schools’ primary contact during annual financial audits and 990 preparation. • Analyze, model, and solve problems on a wide range of business issues. • Liaise with the schools’ Boards, the state education authority (SEA), and the charter authorizer as needed. • Invest in other members of the EdOps team, supporting their efforts and demonstrating a desire to contribute to the growth of the internal team.

Requirements

• Strong organization and time management skills. There is a lot going on here. • Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs, because Excel will be your best friend in executing on everyday financial work. • Direct work experience and/or degree in finance or accounting or related field. • Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, as every school is different, and approaches and solutions often have to be customized. • Ability to collaborate with people at every level of an organization with a strong desire to help others do their best work. • Strong client communication and interpersonal skills. • Comfort presenting and explaining info (both verbally and in writing) to people with varying financial literacy. • A Specialist might in one day complete annual forecasting that will be provided to a full board of finance and education professionals, email a payroll provider about a technical 403b issue, and help create a grant budget with a school’s development department. • General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite, financial systems) because we are not big fans of paper around here at EdOps. • Coursework or experience in education, nonprofit management, or finance and accounting. • Typically, Finance Specialists have 5-8 years of work or post-secondary educational experience.

Benefits

• Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence. That is what it is all about. • Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts. • Check out other perks of working at EdOps here . • And some details on benefits here . • We know that a team from a wide range of backgrounds with different life experiences, identities, opinions, and talents makes us better able to innovate and deliver on our mission of supporting schools to improve student outcomes. • Every day we work to build an inclusive company culture where everyone can be themselves at work and do their best work.