Senior Director of Finance & Operations
CFS · Denver, CO · 1 mo ago
Sales$150k–$180k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About" paragraph describing organization, then "Position Summary". We need headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use for each heading. Only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have content for About (organization description), Responsibilities (list), Qualifications (required and preferred), maybe Skills (some are within qualifications). Benefits: they mention "competitive total compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) match, and generous vacation allowance." So Benefits section can be included. Pay: they have compensation range $150,000 - $180,000. So Pay section. Schedule: they mention full-time, salaried, remote position. Also travel required 1-2 per year. So Schedule could include full-time remote, travel. We'll include.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove "PROCESS" etc. Also remove "Job Requirements" maybe we incorporate into Requirements? The posting has "Job Requirements" bullet list about work eligibility, travel, background check. That's more like Requirements. We'll include under Requirements.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent. Use
for each heading. Only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have content for About (organization description), Responsibilities (list), Qualifications (required and preferred), maybe Skills (some are within qualifications). Benefits: they mention "competitive total compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401(k) match, and generous vacation allowance." So Benefits section can be included. Pay: they have compensation range $150,000 - $180,000. So Pay section. Schedule: they mention full-time, salaried, remote position. Also travel required 1-2 per year. So Schedule could include full-time remote, travel. We'll include.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Also remove "PROCESS" etc. Also remove "Job Requirements" maybe we incorporate into Requirements? The posting has "Job Requirements" bullet list about work eligibility, travel, background check. That's more like Requirements. We'll include under Requirements.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience" in Pay section? Actually they said base compensation range of $150,000 - $180,000, commensurate with experience. That's specific; we can include the range and note commensurate with experience as part of description. It's okay.
We must not create sections with placeholder text. All sections we add have content.
Let's craft:
About the role
About is a nonprofit convener, funder, and accelerator of climate and energy leadership across the political spectrum. A national organization, seeks to hire an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Director of Finance & Operations. goal is ambitious, durable decarbonization policy. With a bipartisan team and board, we are the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right-of-center on climate and energy as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy.
But that paragraph is a bit messy; we need to preserve as is. Might need to clean up grammar but not invent. We'll keep the sentences.
Better: combine the two sentences: "About is a nonprofit convener, funder, and accelerator of climate and energy leadership across the political spectrum. A national organization, seeks to hire an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Director of Finance & Operations. goal is ambitious, durable decarbonization policy. With a bipartisan team and board, we are the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right-of-center on climate and energy as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy."
We'll keep.
Position Summary
maybe not required as heading? The instruction says use headings for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Position Summary is not in list; maybe we should not create a heading for it. Instead incorporate into About the role? But we have separate content. The instruction says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those are typical. Safer to stick to those headings only. So we need to map content to those headings.
We have About the role: we can put organization description and maybe position summary there.
Responsibilities: list.
Requirements: include job requirements (work eligibility, travel, background check) plus maybe "Employees are required to work in the continental United States..." etc.
Qualifications: required and preferred.
Skills: maybe we can extract communication, analytical etc but they are already in qualifications. Could create Skills section summarizing those? But we risk duplication. Better to not create Skills if content already covered; but we could still create Skills if we have specific skill list. The posting mentions "Exceptional written and verbal communication skills", "Exceptional judgment, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills", "strong attention to detail". Could put those under Skills. However Qualifications already includes those. To avoid duplication, maybe we skip Skills section.
Benefits: list.
Pay: compensation range.
Schedule: full-time remote, travel 1-2 per year.
Let's craft.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc.
Now produce HTML.
We'll need to ensure proper nesting.
Let's draft:
About the role
About is a nonprofit convener, funder, and accelerator of climate and energy leadership across the political spectrum. A national organization seeks to hire an experienced and detail‑oriented Senior Director of Finance & Operations. The goal is ambitious, durable decarbonization policy. With a bipartisan team and board, we are the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right‑of‑center on climate and energy as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy.
Responsibilities
- Supervise, coach, and develop the Senior Accountant, providing ongoing performance management, mentorship, and professional development.
- Foster a collaborative, service‑oriented culture within the Finance & Operations function that delivers high‑quality support across the organization.
- Support the continued growth and effectiveness of the Finance & Operations function by identifying opportunities to strengthen team processes, workflows, and systems.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the COO and organizational leadership by providing financial analysis, strategic insight, and recommendations that support organizational planning and decision‑making.
- Partner with executive leadership to develop financial strategies and align financial resources in support of organizational priorities and long‑term sustainability.
- Lead short‑ and long‑term financial planning, including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis.
- Provide timely financial analysis and forecasting to inform resource allocation, organizational decision‑making, and strategic priorities.
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate strategic opportunities, organizational risks, and long‑term financial sustainability.
- Monitor organizational financial performance and recommend opportunities to strengthen financial stewardship and operational efficiency.
- Lead the preparation and presentation of accurate, timely financial reports for executive leadership, the Board, and external stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Represent DEPLOY/US externally on financial and operational matters by building strong relationships with financial institutions, auditors, investment advisors, legal counsel, and other external partners.
- Oversee financial management of grants, contracts, and restricted funds.
- Ensure compliance with donor restrictions, grant agreements, and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate with the Development and Programs teams on grant budgeting, proposal development, financial reporting, and the review of grant agreements for financial, legal, and compliance considerations.
- Provide financial guidance and operational guidance to partner organizations, as appropriate, helping strengthen financial management practices and organizational capacity across the field.
- Maintain a strong system of internal controls that safeguards organizational assets.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and nonprofit accounting standards and other applicable regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate annual financial statement audit, preparation of IRS Form 990, and other tax and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Oversee cash management, investments, and liquidity planning.
- Monitor organizational reserves and recommend strategies to support long‑term financial sustainability and alignment with financial policies.
- Manage relationships with the organization's banking, audit, tax, investment, and other financial service providers.
- Partner with the COO to strengthen the organization's operational systems, processes, and infrastructure while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and cross‑functional collaboration in support of organizational effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain organizational policies and procedures.
- Support the organization's technology infrastructure, business systems, cybersecurity, and technology‑related vendor relationships.
- Oversee payroll, benefits administration, and related federal and state compliance requirements.
- Oversee organizational compliance, legal affairs, insurance, and risk management by partnering with external legal counsel, supporting governance activities, monitoring regulatory requirements, and implementing controls that safeguard the organization.
- Manage relationships with vendors supporting payroll and benefits, insurance, legal, technology, and other operational functions.
- Support HR operations, including onboarding, offboarding, and related HR processes, while partnering with the COO on recruitment and other HR activities, as needed.
Requirements
- Employees are required to work in the continental United States.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States on the date of hire.
- Company does not sponsor work visas for this position.
- Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check prior to hire.
- Ability to travel to attend required in‑person retreats (typically 1‑2 per year) and for other meetings, as needed.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible finance and accounting experience, including experience leading finance functions and supervising staff.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop individuals and teams while fostering a collaborative, service‑oriented culture.
- Strong knowledge of nonprofit accounting, GAAP, internal controls, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain internal controls, oversee audits, manage cash flow, and present financial information and recommendations to executive leadership, board committees, and boards of directors.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and sound independent judgment on matters of organizational significance.
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, manage multiple priorities, adapt to changing organizational needs, and achieve results in a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated systems thinker with the ability to strengthen organizational capacity by improving systems, processes, and infrastructure while enhancing cross‑functional collaboration, and organizational effectiveness.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build strong cross‑functional relationships and communicate complex financial information clearly to both financial and non‑financial audiences.
- Exceptional judgment, analytical, organizational, and problem‑solving skills, with strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
- Ability to successfully work as part of a remote, mission‑driven, bipartisan team.
- Inspired by and dedicated to DEPLOY/US’ mission of advancing ambitious, bipartisan U.S. climate leadership, as well as DEPLOY/US’ unique strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA and/or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
- Experience managing the financial operations of organizations with affiliated entities, including 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), political action committees (PACs), or other related organizations.
- Experience supporting finance and operations for civil society organizations, advocacy efforts, or public policy initiatives; working within or alongside conservative or center‑right networks, coalitions, or institutions; and/or within the energy, climate
for prose. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience" in Pay section? Actually they said base compensation range of $150,000 - $180,000, commensurate with experience. That's specific; we can include the range and note commensurate with experience as part of description. It's okay. We must not create sections with placeholder text. All sections we add have content. Let's craft:
About the role
About is a nonprofit convener, funder, and accelerator of climate and energy leadership across the political spectrum. A national organization, seeks to hire an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Director of Finance & Operations. goal is ambitious, durable decarbonization policy. With a bipartisan team and board, we are the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right-of-center on climate and energy as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy.
But that paragraph is a bit messy; we need to preserve as is. Might need to clean up grammar but not invent. We'll keep the sentences. Better: combine the two sentences: "About is a nonprofit convener, funder, and accelerator of climate and energy leadership across the political spectrum. A national organization, seeks to hire an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Director of Finance & Operations. goal is ambitious, durable decarbonization policy. With a bipartisan team and board, we are the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right-of-center on climate and energy as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy." We'll keep.Position Summary
maybe not required as heading? The instruction says use headings for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Position Summary is not in list; maybe we should not create a heading for it. Instead incorporate into About the role? But we have separate content. The instruction says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those are typical. Safer to stick to those headings only. So we need to map content to those headings.
We have About the role: we can put organization description and maybe position summary there.
Responsibilities: list.
Requirements: include job requirements (work eligibility, travel, background check) plus maybe "Employees are required to work in the continental United States..." etc.
Qualifications: required and preferred.
Skills: maybe we can extract communication, analytical etc but they are already in qualifications. Could create Skills section summarizing those? But we risk duplication. Better to not create Skills if content already covered; but we could still create Skills if we have specific skill list. The posting mentions "Exceptional written and verbal communication skills", "Exceptional judgment, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills", "strong attention to detail". Could put those under Skills. However Qualifications already includes those. To avoid duplication, maybe we skip Skills section.
Benefits: list.
Pay: compensation range.
Schedule: full-time remote, travel 1-2 per year.
Let's craft.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc.
Now produce HTML.
We'll need to ensure proper nesting.
Let's draft:
About the role
About is a nonprofit convener, funder, and accelerator of climate and energy leadership across the political spectrum. A national organization seeks to hire an experienced and detail‑oriented Senior Director of Finance & Operations. The goal is ambitious, durable decarbonization policy. With a bipartisan team and board, we are the only organization in the country focused on building the capacities, amplifying the voices, and scaling the impact of the entire ecosystem of civic enterprises and leaders working right‑of‑center on climate and energy as a crucial foundation for bipartisan policy.
Responsibilities
- Supervise, coach, and develop the Senior Accountant, providing ongoing performance management, mentorship, and professional development.
- Foster a collaborative, service‑oriented culture within the Finance & Operations function that delivers high‑quality support across the organization.
- Support the continued growth and effectiveness of the Finance & Operations function by identifying opportunities to strengthen team processes, workflows, and systems.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the COO and organizational leadership by providing financial analysis, strategic insight, and recommendations that support organizational planning and decision‑making.
- Partner with executive leadership to develop financial strategies and align financial resources in support of organizational priorities and long‑term sustainability.
- Lead short‑ and long‑term financial planning, including budgeting, forecasting, and analysis.
- Provide timely financial analysis and forecasting to inform resource allocation, organizational decision‑making, and strategic priorities.
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate strategic opportunities, organizational risks, and long‑term financial sustainability.
- Monitor organizational financial performance and recommend opportunities to strengthen financial stewardship and operational efficiency.
- Lead the preparation and presentation of accurate, timely financial reports for executive leadership, the Board, and external stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Represent DEPLOY/US externally on financial and operational matters by building strong relationships with financial institutions, auditors, investment advisors, legal counsel, and other external partners.
- Oversee financial management of grants, contracts, and restricted funds.
- Ensure compliance with donor restrictions, grant agreements, and reporting requirements.
- Collaborate with the Development and Programs teams on grant budgeting, proposal development, financial reporting, and the review of grant agreements for financial, legal, and compliance considerations.
- Provide financial guidance and operational guidance to partner organizations, as appropriate, helping strengthen financial management practices and organizational capacity across the field.
- Maintain a strong system of internal controls that safeguards organizational assets.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and nonprofit accounting standards and other applicable regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate annual financial statement audit, preparation of IRS Form 990, and other tax and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Oversee cash management, investments, and liquidity planning.
- Monitor organizational reserves and recommend strategies to support long‑term financial sustainability and alignment with financial policies.
- Manage relationships with the organization's banking, audit, tax, investment, and other financial service providers.
- Partner with the COO to strengthen the organization's operational systems, processes, and infrastructure while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and cross‑functional collaboration in support of organizational effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain organizational policies and procedures.
- Support the organization's technology infrastructure, business systems, cybersecurity, and technology‑related vendor relationships.
- Oversee payroll, benefits administration, and related federal and state compliance requirements.
- Oversee organizational compliance, legal affairs, insurance, and risk management by partnering with external legal counsel, supporting governance activities, monitoring regulatory requirements, and implementing controls that safeguard the organization.
- Manage relationships with vendors supporting payroll and benefits, insurance, legal, technology, and other operational functions.
- Support HR operations, including onboarding, offboarding, and related HR processes, while partnering with the COO on recruitment and other HR activities, as needed.
Requirements
- Employees are required to work in the continental United States.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States on the date of hire.
- Company does not sponsor work visas for this position.
- Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check prior to hire.
- Ability to travel to attend required in‑person retreats (typically 1‑2 per year) and for other meetings, as needed.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible finance and accounting experience, including experience leading finance functions and supervising staff.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop individuals and teams while fostering a collaborative, service‑oriented culture.
- Strong knowledge of nonprofit accounting, GAAP, internal controls, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain internal controls, oversee audits, manage cash flow, and present financial information and recommendations to executive leadership, board committees, and boards of directors.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion and sound independent judgment on matters of organizational significance.
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, manage multiple priorities, adapt to changing organizational needs, and achieve results in a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated systems thinker with the ability to strengthen organizational capacity by improving systems, processes, and infrastructure while enhancing cross‑functional collaboration, and organizational effectiveness.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build strong cross‑functional relationships and communicate complex financial information clearly to both financial and non‑financial audiences.
- Exceptional judgment, analytical, organizational, and problem‑solving skills, with strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
- Ability to successfully work as part of a remote, mission‑driven, bipartisan team.
- Inspired by and dedicated to DEPLOY/US’ mission of advancing ambitious, bipartisan U.S. climate leadership, as well as DEPLOY/US’ unique strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA and/or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
- Experience managing the financial operations of organizations with affiliated entities, including 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), political action committees (PACs), or other related organizations.
- Experience supporting finance and operations for civil society organizations, advocacy efforts, or public policy initiatives; working within or alongside conservative or center‑right networks, coalitions, or institutions; and/or within the energy, climate