Finance Consultant, Financial Advisor ​/ Consultant

Finance Consultant About the Opportunity

As a financial management firm that integrates with nonprofit arts organizations from across the country, Arts FMS empowers organizations to focus on their mission, while they focus on the long‑term fiscal health and sustainability of the organization. By providing a comprehensive scope of full financial management services, Arts FMS is able to bring stability, efficiency, and reliability to an organization’s financial operations.

Arts FMS is pleased to be hiring a Finance Consultant to join their growing team. This nonprofit professional is a highly motivated and self‑directed individual with experience in accounting and financial management, specifically in the arts and culture sector. In addition to having nonprofit accounting skills and experience working within a finance department, this administrator will be an adept communicator and comfortable building strong internal and external relationships.

They will have a thoughtful empathetic approach to guiding clients in financial management and decision‑making, and will be able to clearly and concisely translate financial documents for a variety of stakeholders.

As Arts FMS rapidly expands their services to a growing list of impressive organizations, this consultant will have the chance to join a collaborative team of thought partners dedicated to financial operations. Fully remote, the team at Arts FMS learns from one another, adapts to the specific needs of clients, and is building a set of practices that will have a significant impact on the cultural field.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to advance their skills and connect with a variety of ambitious arts organizations and their leaders.

Arts FMS delivers exemplary financial management services focused on long‑term fiscal health and sustainability, empowering nonprofit arts organizations to focus on fulfilling their missions. Specializing in nonprofit financial management, Arts FMS maintains a talented team of financial consultants, who bring stability, efficiency, and reliability to their client’s financial operations. Their clients receive accurate and timely data that both informs their current strategic financial decisions and better prepares them for the future.

As a financial partner, Arts FMS integrates directly with the staff and board of an organization. Once engaged, they work closely with a client to assess what services and systems would most benefit that specific nonprofit organization. The Arts FMS approach is adaptable, designed to work seamlessly with current systems that are effective, while introducing new systems to enhance efficiency and streamline workflows, which will benefit the partnership overall.

Arts FMS was founded under the belief that art is vital to our society and is core to the company’s mission. Principals Andrea Nellis and Lucy Mallett bring decades of nonprofit financial management experience as both practitioners and advisors to cultural leaders, strengthening the sector and securing both the present and future of their growing list of clients.

A Finance Consultant at Arts FMS reports to one of Arts FMS’s Managing or Senior Finance Consultants. The Finance Consultant is a flexible, industrious, and detail‑oriented project manager, who will be invested in relationships with two to five clients. Depending on the size of those client organizations, the Finance Consultant may be charged with complete oversight of the relationship, responsible for payroll, bill pay, bookkeeping, and month close.

For larger organizations, they may be acting as a controller and collaborating with a Managing or Senior Finance Consultant on the relationship. For smaller organizations, they may or may not have the support of a Finance Associate or Assistant, requiring a solid confidence in all client‑related tasks. Capable of taking on a broad array of responsibilities, the Finance Consultant needs to be judicious about their time to manage numerous projects and deadlines with care and accuracy.

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