Finance Team Manager - Independent Schools

EdOps Finance Team Manager- Independent Schools Team

EdOps’ Finance Team Manager position is an ideal role for accounting or finance professionals interested in using their skills to manage a team of finance professionals and directly serve independent school clients in a leadership role within a mission-driven context. The Finance Team Manager position is designed for individuals with significant experience managing professionals. As the manager of a team of finance staff, the Finance Team Manager provides quality control to ensure work best meets the needs of schools. The manager is also responsible for staff support, developing staff technical and soft skill competencies, and guiding staff career paths.

Reports to the Director or Senior Finance Team Managers. Location flexible (this is a remote position). Part time arrangements possible for exceptional candidates.

Who we are:

EdOps is a Washington, DC-based B-Corp focused on minimizing the financial, operational, and compliance demands of running a school and supporting education leaders with data-driven insights to improve student outcomes. Simply put, we make it easier for school leaders to increase student achievement. We work with all the schools that need us. Our growing team of 100+ professionals work with over 100 schools and school networks nationwide. We are serious about being the best possible partners to schools, and it shows in our 99% annual client retention rate and rapid growth rate. We work hard at being a rewarding, enjoyable workplace where staff can grow professionally and make an impact, and we were recognized as a Washington Post Top Workplace. We are looking for education focused, finance and accounting loving, collaborative people to join our team.

What you will do:

• As the front line manager of a team of analysts and finance specialists (generally teams of 2-5 but at least 2), deliver on all of the EdOps People Manager Expectations including:
• Train and coach staff as part of standard training sessions and beyond, so that they meet and exceed expectations for their role and are developing towards their goals.
• Guide and support staff’s career paths through EdOps via discussion, navigation and collaborative planning.
• Develop and conduct Annual Reviews, Mid Year Deep Dives for direct reports with input from EdOps colleagues and clients.
• Address underperformance and develop PIPs as necessary.
• Decide on staff promotion timing (with approval of the Director).
• Create and maintain a team work culture that is inclusive and fair.
• Resolve staff issues as necessary.
• Informing upwards on trends.
• Create and maintain a team work culture that is inclusive and fair.
• Ensure that their team’s client work meets EdOps quality standards:
• Provide the necessary project management to ensure that EdOps work is completed on timely with general expected quality
• Support in the accounting review of schools and implement team specific QC mechanisms to have reasonable certainty that work meets EdOps standards. Adapt QC processes and cadence as necessary for individuals on their team while ensuring staff are in compliance with EdOps’s standard approach to QC.
• At times, problem solve or find solutions for the more complex parts of the work.
• Serve as an outsourced controller for at least one school by overseeing all day-to-day full-cycle accounting and compliance aspects of the schools:
• Close the books monthly/quarterly/annually and support the preparation of monthly financial statements.
• Oversee federal, state, and local grants administration.
• Serve as a school’s primary contact during annual financial audits and 990 preparation.
• Support the annual budgeting process in partnership with School Finance Managers.
• Liaise with a school’s state education authority (SEA) as needed.
• Contribute to Edops’s continual improvement of our finance service line efficiency and accuracy. Gather information, notice trends, and make recommendations to Directors to improve product and processes, identify service/tools needed, and address issues.
• Make recommendations, inform and collaborate with the Director of People Operations to optimize our people operations wide practices and approaches.
• Play an active role in the ongoing recruitment process of new staff.
• Some Managers, who will have a smaller team and/or staffed on fewer clients, can have specializations that encompass responsibilities not outlined here (e.g., overseeing changes to regional compliance, facilities accounting).

What you will accomplish:

By Year 1 you will have:

• Sharpened your expertise in people management by leading a team of accounting and finance professionals.
• Contributed to the development of the finance team’s operational changes.
• Solved small, real problems for schools on a daily basis.
• Independently managed the annual financial cycle for at least 1 school

By Year 3 you will have:

• Contributed to EdOps continual improvement of our finance service line by collaborating on internal process improvements for the finance service line.
• Possibly, specialized in an area of your own interest such as new hire onboarding and training, quality control, tool design and development, or liaising with state education agencies and/or authorizers to ensure new compliance requirements are disseminated to the whole team.
• Continue to manage a team of accounting and finance professionals.
• Continue to solve real problems, small and large, for schools every day.

Who you are:

• Enjoy leading teams and helping them grow and navigate challenges they encounter in their work.
• Accounting or finance professional who enjoys the work and is committed to delivering on the accuracy, clarity, and integrity that strong accounting and finance can bring to organizations.
• Find meaning in applying your professional skills in support of mission-driven organizations.
• Strong in independent problem solving. We are a very collaborative community that supports each other, but our Finance Team Managers are independent and solve new problems every day.
• Energized by being in a customer service role. We are here first and foremost to serve our school clients.
• Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Open to learning and growing in these areas together so that each of us can contribute to building a culture of equity and support our schools in advancing these values. Please see more on EdOps' commitment here.

What you need:

• Experience managing teams of finance or accounting professionals.
• Strong organization and time management skills. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities while meeting deadlines.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Experience with accounting systems (e.g. QuickBooks Online) and capacity to learn new systems.
• Ability to write and clearly document processes and procedures.
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Ability to interface professionally with clients.
• Typically, Finance Team Managers have 10+ years of work or post-secondary educational experience, including 3+ years of management or supervisory experience.
• Experience working with schools or non-profit organizations is a plus.
• Audit experience is a plus.

What you get:

• The chance to challenge and develop your management skills while using them to help our team be better.
• Opportunity to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts.
• EdOps salaries are commensurate with relative experience and geographic location. The range for the Finance Team Manager position is $96,200-128,000/year.
• Check out other perks of working at EdOps here. And some details on benefits here.

We know that a team from a wide range of backgrounds with different life experiences, identities, opinions, and talents makes us better able to innovate and deliver on our mission of supporting schools to improve student outcomes. Every day we work to build an inclusive company culture where everyone can be themselves at work and do their best work.

Apply:

If you are skilled in your field, excited by our mission, ready to learn, and looking for a place where you can be yourself, we want to hear from you!

What you can expect from the hiring process:

• Application Review
• First Review
• Performance Task
• Final Interviews (Behavioral, Technical, Values)
• Reference Check
• Offer