Budget Finance Officer

FRED FINCH YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES

$93K — $119K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.A. in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, Economics, or Business Administration.
  • 5+ years in Senior Budget Analyst, Senior Accountant, Senior Auditor roles in nonprofit or public sectors.
  • Expertise in budgeting, cost allocation, data analytics, and visualization tools like Power BI and Tableau.
  • Thorough knowledge of auditing principles and financial compliance requirements.
  • Experience in managing multiple funding streams and budgeting operations.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee budget planning, development, and administration under the CFO's guidance.
  • Ensure timely and accurate reporting of budgets and financials to external stakeholders.
  • Maintain financial integrity across budgeting, purchasing, and position control systems.
  • Conduct financial analysis and revenue forecasting for various programs and grants.
  • Design financial reports and dashboards to facilitate performance management.

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment focused on innovation and improvement.
  • Exposure to a diverse range of financial management duties.
  • Opportunity to influence budgeting and financial reporting practices at a strategic level.
  • Professional development opportunities within a nonprofit context.
Full Job Description
What You Will Do:

Under the direction of the Chief Financial Officer, the Budget Finance Officer oversees budget planning, development, and administration and financial analysis, expenditure and revenue forecasting, and reporting for assigned departments, programs, grants, and projects. This position ensures accurate and timely budget and financial reporting to external funders, auditors, and regulatory agencies. In addition, this position ensures financial integrity, alignment, and reconciliation of financial, banking, budgeting, purchasing, and position control systems and processes.

Qualifications:

Knowledge:
  • Budgeting, cost allocation methodologies, data analytics, business intelligence, and data visualization software (i.e., Power BI, Cognos, Tableau, SAP Business Objects, SAP Analytics, etc.) or other reporting software, financial applications, spreadsheets, and statistics is required.
  • Design of financial reports, dashboards, and financial performance management.
  • Geneal Ledger and Chart of Account structures and layouts.
  • Accounting and budgeting principles, practices, and workflows.
  • Treasury operations, accounting, finance, cost allocation and braided funding streams and their interdependencies.
  • Auditing principles and methods to ensure the validity and financial integrity of financial reports.
  • Qualitative a quantitative evaluation principals and processes to ensure financial compliance with funders and regulatory requirements.

Ability:
  • Sufficient education, training and experience which demonstrates the possession of the following abilities:
  • Develop and employe mathematics, statistics, and computer science methods and tools to manage large financial data sets, data warehouse dimensional modeling, and data analytics methods to communicate outcomes, trends, and comparative analysis across multiple financial, payroll, and purchasing systems.
  • Strong work ethic with a commitment to fiscal integrity and personal accountability.
  • Work independently, with minimal guidance and supervision.
  • Take initiative, Proactive, seeking to continually improve business processes.
  • Work collaboratively and successfully within a team.
  • Work in an environment that requires flexibility to meet changing needs or demands.
  • Produce accurate work products, multi-task, meet deadlines, and achieve results in a high demand and fast paced environment.

Education:
  • B.A. Degree in Accounting, Finance, Auditing Economics or Business Administration from an accredited college or university.

Experience:
  • Five (5) years' experience at the Senior Budget Analyst, Senior Accountant, Senior Auditor or equivalent position with responsibility overseeing accounting, budgeting, or auditing functions for multiple departments, programs, projects, and grants, preferably in a nonprofit or public entity.
  • Extensive formal responsibility and experience interpreting federal, state, and local governmental regulations, financial funding requirements, and developing and managing budgeting operations.
  • Experience developing and maintaining cost allocation models for revenue and expenses and supporting accounting ledgers and documentation.
  • Experience performing formal financial/accounting compliance audits.


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