Managing Director of Fiscal Accountability and Controller

Location: Albany, NY Category: Professional Positions Job Type: Full-time Posted On: Wed Jun 3 2026

SUNY Charter Schools Institute seeks a dynamic and experienced financial professional to provide leadership and direction to oversee the fiscal operations of its vast portfolio of 241 authorized charter schools across New York State. The Managing Director of Fiscal Accountability and Controller ensures that SUNY upholds its fiscal obligations to the New York Charter Schools Act while operating within a highly visible and political environment.

This role requires a strong understanding of non‑profit finance and accounting in an educational setting, and a commitment to upholding high professional standards.

• Serve as a member of the Leadership Team to support the Executive Director to establish and execute the Institute's strategic priorities.
• Oversee a comprehensive fiscal monitoring program for the fiscal operations at SUNY authorized charter schools, beginning in the charter application process and continuing throughout the charter lifecycle including pre‑opening and opening of schools, operating charter schools, charter renewal, and non‑renewal decisions and closure procedures. This involves gathering, evaluating, presenting and reporting financial information to stakeholders and advising on progress and necessary actions.
• Represent the Institute concerning all school finance matters to the SUNY Trustees' Committee on Charter Schools. Present findings, support recommendations, and respond to questions from SUNY Trustees, charter schools and boards and other parties at regularly scheduled Committee meetings, special hearings and other public meetings.
• Direct the development of differentiated monitoring treatments based on organizational capacity of education corporations, and apply additional oversight requirements including corrective action plans, and investigations, as necessary.
• Guide the Institute's Digital Transformation efforts on financial and related school operation information to enable analysis, reporting and sharing to multiple audiences.
• Build strong relationships across the statewide and national charter sector to identify and foster key partnerships to disseminate tools and best practices to support charter school boards and school leaders in operationalizing high quality financial oversight practices.

• Supervise three Finance Team members and provide ongoing training and support to enable staff to perform oversight responsibilities. Prioritize and delegate recurring and ad‑hoc tasks and projects across the team throughout the school year based on renewal cohort, risk, capacity, and other factors. Provide training and ongoing feedback to staff to develop their analysis as well as writing skills to be able to contribute directly to public facing reports.
• Oversee and lead the development of written guidance for charter school reporting of audits, financial management, facility reporting, and other compliance reporting requirements.
• Direct all processes for review of proposed facility agreements/financing arrangements, including responding to questions from underwriters, rating agencies, bond holders, bond counsel, grantors, banks and other financial services providers.
• Represent, or prepare staff to represent the Institute in all charter school financial and compliance matters with the New York State Education Department, the New York City Department of Education, charter school fiscal services contractors, charter associations, other educational entities, and professional societies.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree.
• 7–10 years of progressively responsible senior level experience in accounting or finance.
• Experience creating, monitoring and documenting organizational systems and protocols for internal operations, financial compliance and/or school operations data monitoring.
• Supervisory and team leadership experience required.
• Must demonstrate strong writing, analytical, organizational and communication skills.

• Charter school experience in charter school finance, oversight and/or authorizing…