Vice President of Finance & Administration

Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1923 that helps people get jobs across Northwest Washington by offering high-quality free job training, education, and job placement. Goodwill empowers individuals to overcome barriers to working by providing comprehensive support and connecting them with life-changing job opportunities, ensuring they are career-ready and can support themselves and their families.

About the Role

The Vice President of Finance & Administration is a transformational finance leader who can operate at both ends of the spectrum—architecting long-term financial strategy for a complex, multi-entity organization while also ensuring the fundamentals are executed flawlessly. Reporting to the CFO, this role is responsible for fundamentally strengthening how EGNW's finance function works by standardizing and rebuilding financial processes to be scalable, auditable, and automation-ready.

EGNW operates across multiple legal entities and a growing, complex organizational structure. The VP must be capable of managing the financial complexity that comes with that—intercompany accounting, entity-level reporting, consolidated financials, and the strategic thinking to understand how the structure itself can be optimized over time. At the same time, this person owns the day-to-day: ensuring bills are paid, books close on time, and developing the team’s capabilities to support a growing and increasingly complex organization.

Responsibilities

• Financial Process Transformation & Automation
  • Lead a comprehensive assessment and redesign of EGNW's core financial processes including accounts payable, accounts receivable, close, reporting, and reconciliation with the goal of standardizing workflows and eliminating manual, error-prone steps.
  • Partner with the Technology team to identify, evaluate, and implement AI and automation tools that streamline financial operations; serve as the finance function's champion for responsible technology adoption.
  • Build and enforce process documentation standards so that every financial workflow is clearly defined, repeatable, and ready to be automated or handed off without institutional knowledge dependency.
  • Drive continuous improvement across the finance function, measuring process efficiency and establishing benchmarks to track progress over time.
  • Ensure financial systems, ERP platforms, and reporting tools are optimized and integrated; evaluate new technologies and lead implementation efforts as needed.
• Multi-Entity Financial Management
  • Oversee financial operations across all EGNW legal entities, ensuring accurate intercompany accounting, consolidated reporting, and entity-level transparency.
  • Develop and maintain financial frameworks that can flex as the organizational structure evolves, including new entity formation, restructuring, or changes to operating models.
  • Ensure each entity meets its compliance obligations independently while contributing to a coherent, consolidated financial picture of the organization.
  • Collaborate with legal and leadership teams on the financial implications of structural decisions, modeling scenarios and providing clear recommendations.
• Long-Term Financial Strategy
  • Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CFO on multi-year financial planning, capital strategy, reserve management, and long-range financial sustainability.
  • Develop forward-looking financial models that help leadership anticipate risks, evaluate opportunities, and make decisions grounded in data and financial reality.
  • Build and lead a financial planning and analysis capability that goes beyond historical reporting and produces insights that drive organizational strategy, not just track it.
  • Identify structural inefficiencies, revenue risks, and cost opportunities across the organization and develop concrete plans to address them.
  • Support the evaluation and due diligence of new business opportunities, partnerships, real estate transactions, and strategic investments.
• Financial Operations & Controls
  • Own the day-to-day financial operations of the organization, ensuring accounts payable, vendor payments, and cash management run smoothly, accurately, and on time.
  • Lead and develop the Director of Finance & Accounting and the broader finance and accounting team, building a high-performance culture grounded in accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness aligned with GAAP and nonprofit accounting standards.
  • Manage the annual operating budget process and ongoing budget monitoring, working across departments to build data-informed plans aligned with organizational priorities.
  • Maintain and strengthen internal controls and financial policies that safeguard assets, ensure compliance, and reduce organizational risk.
  • Oversee grant and contract financial compliance, ensuring proper tracking, reporting, and stewardship of restricted and unrestricted funds.
• Administration & Compliance
  • Oversee administrative functions as assigned by the CFO, which may include facilities, procurement, and vendor contract management.
  • Coordinate with external auditors, legal counsel, and government agencies to ensure statutory and regulatory compliance activities are completed accurately and on time.
  • Ensure organizational compliance with tax laws, nonprofit regulations, and reporting requirements, including IRS Form 990 and other filings.
• Leadership & Culture
  • Model and reinforce EGNW's values of equity, inclusion, and mission-driven excellence in all aspects of team leadership and organizational behavior.
  • Build strong cross-functional relationships, acting as a collaborative partner to People & Culture, Technology, Mission, Retail, and other departments.
  • Champion a culture of financial literacy, stewardship, and accountability across the organization, making finance accessible and relevant to non-finance colleagues.
  • Step in to represent the CFO as needed in meetings, presentations, and internal stakeholder engagements.

Qualifications

You are a finance leader who is energized by change, not intimidated by it. You have experience transforming organizations where processes were held together by spreadsheets and institutional knowledge into systems that are documented, standardized, and running on modern platforms. You understand that the future of finance is automated, and you know how to prepare a team and organization for it. You think in systems and structures, managing multi-entity complexity while staying sharp on details. You are equally comfortable building a five-year financial model and ensuring the AP run goes out on time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field required.
• Master's degree (MBA or MPA) or CPA designation strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance or accounting, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role managing teams and complex financial operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading financial process redesign and standardization efforts—including documentation, workflow redesign, and technology implementation.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted finance tools, automation platforms, or ERP modernization; proven ability to evaluate and adopt financial technology.
• Experience managing finance across multiple legal entities, including intercompany accounting, consolidated reporting, and entity-level compliance.
• Demonstrated experience in nonprofit finance, including fund accounting, restricted grants, and Form 990 reporting.
• Experience in a large, multi-site retail or service organization with frontline employees, physical locations, and significant operational complexity.
• Proven ability to manage and develop high-performing finance teams, including direct supervisory responsibility.
• Strong command of GAAP, nonprofit accounting standards, and internal controls best practices.
• Experience with multi-year financial planning, forecasting, and long-range scenario modeling in an organization of comparable scale ($50M+ budget preferred).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex financial data into clear, actionable narratives for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships and influence without authority.
• High ethical standards, sound judgment, and professional discretion in handling sensitive financial and organizational information.
• Proficiency with office technology such as Microsoft Office or Google Suite.

Physical Abilities

• Ability to sit for long periods, communicate with other employees by talking and hearing.
• Required to lift and carry items weighing up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, including with those who have limited English skills.
• Maintain reliable attendance.

Benefits

• A health plan that includes medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
• 100% employer-paid life, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), and long-term disability insurance (for salaried employees).
• Voluntary supplemental coverage for life, accident, illness, and short- and long-term disability.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) Plan.
• Roth and 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan program.
• Paid vacation, 9 holidays, and sick time.
• Limited paid time off for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave.
• Employee discounts.
• Employee referral bonus.

Pay

$240K–$250K annually.