Director of Finance

Key Role Responsibilities

• Trains and coaches the finance team, sets clear expectations, monitors outcomes, creates a culture of open communication, and helps team members solve complex problems through individual supervision and team meetings.
• Fosters a collaborative, supportive, and collegial environment across departments to ensure a high-quality experience for clients and high staff morale.
• Audits and monitors the representative payee program in collaboration with a designee in the housing services department.
• Develops, maintains, and improves a system of financial policies, procedures, and accounting controls according to generally accepted accounting principles, public sector regulation, and best practices in the fields of finance and health care.
• Maintains positive, collaborative relationships with Management Team peers to continuously improve understanding and ownership of fiduciary matters.
• Standardizes processes that leverage technology and simplify workflows.
• Pairs to create and enforce clear standards of practice, policies, and procedures.
• Oversees all accounting functions, including general agency revenue and expenditures, public and private grant accounting, and reporting utilization of grant funds including UDS reports and other Federal cost reports.
• Manages billing and revenue cycle functions, ensuring appropriate processes, policies, and procedures are in place to recognize, record, and report on revenue and accounts receivable in a timely and accurate manner.
• Identifies, documents, and implements process improvements to workflows as necessary. Monitors billing trends and works collaboratively with providers to explore changes to services and implications for billing processes and revenue.
• Develops controls to protect financial assets. Analyzes and audits balance sheet accounts.
• Collaborates with the CFO and agency leadership to guide the organization through the annual budgeting process. Produces and tracks the annual operating and capital budgets by department and grant. Helps to support and educate directors so that they can manage their department budgets.
• Produces monthly financial reports for Management, the Board Finance Committee, and the Board of Directors. Analyzes and explains monthly budget variances and business trends.
• Oversees and reviews the payroll process and audits, and financial compliance responsibilities of related employee benefits. Serves as fiduciary for Agency retirement plans and oversees pension compliance audits. Assists the Director of Human Resources with forecasting, budgeting, and management responsibilities of employee benefits and related contracts.
• Manages the annual financial audits including A-133 compliance and files Annual IRS 990 in conjunction with the contracted accounting firm. Manages cash flow and forecasts cash needs.
• Actively develops own racial equity and inclusion lens both personally and professionally and supports team members to do the same.

Knowledge, Experience And Skills

• Formal Education and Training: BA/BS in Accounting required; Master’s degree or CPA preferred.
• Experience: Five years of management experience with accounting and control systems, maintaining financial records, controlling budgetary expenditures, directing account reconciliations, and cash management. Three years of experience managing teams, preferably in a hybrid work environment. Grant Management experience required. Experience in a Community Health Center preferred. Experience with MIP Software and ADP Workforce Now preferred. Experience with A-133 Audits required. Expert level knowledge in Excel required.
• Skills: Able to build a team, motivate staff and delegate tasks using a strength-based approach. Advanced skills in accounting software and databases. High attention to detail and accuracy. Flexible approach, works within cross-disciplinary teams in a collaborative style. Energetic, adaptive, and self-reflective learner. Systems-thinker, sets clear goals, uses action plans, and knows how to prioritize. Builds rapport and relationships; has strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work in sensitive situations and maintain confidentiality. Highly skilled at problem-solving; helpful to others in making ethical decisions in the workplace. Willingly admits mistakes, self-corrects, and gains insight from experiences. Instills energy and optimism in staff for the future of the organization.

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Health Care for the Homeless is an equal opportunity employer. Notice to Applicants: Health Care for the Homeless participates in E-Verify. All newly hired employees are required to complete the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form and provide documentation proving their identity and legal authorization to work in the United States. We use the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility in accordance with federal law.