Chief Financial Officer

Founded in 1876, Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the nation’s longest-serving conservation and recreation organization. AMC’s mission is to foster the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the outdoors. Through conservation, outdoor recreation, lodging and hospitality, education, volunteer engagement, policy advocacy, and membership, AMC works across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to ensure that the outdoors is protected, accessible, and valued for generations to come.

AMC is a complex nonprofit enterprise with an annual operating budget of approximately $40 million, a significant endowment, diverse earned and contributed revenue streams, a large seasonal workforce, thousands of volunteers, and a wide range of mission-driven operations including lodging destinations, trails, land conservation, outdoor programming, research, and public policy.

AMC seeks a strategic, collaborative, and mission-driven Chief Financial Officer to serve as the organization’s senior financial leader and a key member of the executive leadership team. The CFO is a key partner for helping ensure AMC’s financial health while supporting mission delivery and growth. Reporting to the President & CEO, the CFO will lead AMC’s financial strategy, planning, accounting, reporting, risk management, business analysis, and enterprise financial decision-making.

The CFO will be expected to pair technical financial expertise with strong business judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for staff, leadership, and the Board of Directors.

This is an opportunity for a seasoned finance executive to help guide a uniquely complex, mission-centered organization through its next chapter. AMC requires a CFO who can manage near-term financial performance while also building the systems, insights, talent, and long-range financial models needed to support sustainable growth, conservation impact, and operational excellence.

This position is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with a hybrid work arrangement. The CFO will be expected to maintain a meaningful presence with AMC’s Boston-based leadership team and to travel periodically to AMC locations, Board meetings, and organizational events across the region.

What You’ll Be Doing At AMCTeam Leadership and Organizational Partnership Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing Finance and Accounting team, ensuring strong technical capabilities, clear accountability, succession planning, and a culture of service, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Build trusted relationships across AMC’s staff, management team, volunteers, Board members, and external partners.

Communicate complex financial information with clarity, candor, and confidence to audiences with varying levels of financial expertise.

Represent Finance as a proactive, solutions-oriented partner that helps advance AMC’s mission while protecting the organization’s long-term financial health.

Strategic Financial Leadership Serve as a strategic partner to the President & CEO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors on all matters related to financial sustainability, resource allocation, business model evolution, and organizational risk.

Lead multi-year financial planning, scenario modeling, forecasting, and strategic analysis to support AMC’s path to long-term operating sustainability.

Develop clear financial guardrails that enable AMC to balance mission ambition with fiscal discipline, while supporting bold, data-informed decisions.

Provide financial leadership for major strategic initiatives, including capital planning, conservation investments, facility decisions, potential partnerships or acquisitions, technology investments, and long-term asset management.

Budgeting, Forecasting, and FP&ALead the annual budgeting process, reforecasting, and management reporting across AMC’s departments and business lines.

Strengthen AMC’s FP&A function by developing standardized dashboards, leading indicators, departmental contribution margin analysis, and real-time reporting tools that help leaders understand performance and make timely decisions.

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