Chief Financial Officer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, management, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of senior financial leadership experience in community development finance, small business finance, or impact investing is strongly preferred.
• Experience at an organization of comparable size, scope, and financial complexity.
• CPA/CFA/CMA/MBA or equivalent is preferred.
• Experienced strategic fiscal leader with a strong background in complex asset-liability management in non-profit and/or for-profit environments, strategic planning, financial and credit analysis, budgeting, and reporting.
• Proven skill managing an organization’s accounting, treasury and financial administrative functions with the ability to reflect on and recommend improvements to policies, procedures, and processes.
• Demonstrated ability managing and working equitably and respectfully with diverse people from a wide range of races, ethnicities, backgrounds, and identities.
• Knowledge of the issues involved in financing and developing small businesses, commercial real estate, non-profit community facilities, and affordable housing is ideal.
• Familiarity with private and public finance institutions, their programs, and reporting requirements.
• Experience with budgeting and fund accounting policies, practices, processes, procedures, and reporting.

Skills

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the CFO ensures that proper financial systems, controls, and resources are in place and conducts financial analysis and modeling of existing and potential financial scenarios, all to effectively support the organization’s mission, growth, and sustainability. The CFO represents CEI on several subsidiary boards and works closely with subsidiary finance staff to track and incorporate the financial data and forecasts of subsidiaries into CEI’s consolidated budget and financials. In collaboration with CEI’s CEO, President and Chief Lending & Investment Officer (CLIO), the CFO manages relationships with existing and potential capital sources and is responsible for providing financial reporting to these investors.

Benefits

The CFO brings diverse perspectives, deep technical experience, and leadership skills that allow them to work with people from different backgrounds and foster strong relationships internally with staff and with external partners and networks, and model CEI’s values and good management and supervisory practices as the leader of the department, as well as model CEI’s values and leadership practices as a member of CEI’s Executive Team.

Pay

Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time position.