Finance Director

For nearly 40 years, Boulder County Farmers Markets (BCFM) has connected farmers, foodproducers, and communities through vibrant farmers markets and innovative food accessprograms. Today, BCFM is a growing nonprofit organization with a broader vision: building athriving local food system that supports regional agriculture, strengthens communityconnection, and expands access to local food.

The Director of Operations will join at a pivotalmoment — helping transform a successful, entrepreneurial organization into a sustainable,resilient institution prepared for its next four decades.

• Are energized by building something, not just maintaining something.
• Enjoy creating order from complexity and improving systems over time.
• Can move comfortably between strategic conversations and hands-on financial work.
• Appreciate the creativity, flexibility, and resourcefulness required in a growing nonprofit.
• Want your work to directly contribute to stronger local food systems and community resilience.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is grounded in strong accounting principles and enjoys building systems, improving processes, and translating financial information into practical insights for our nonprofit team and board. The ideal candidate will bring strong nonprofit financial expertise while embracing the reality of a lean, entrepreneurial organization where leaders create solutions, not just manage existing structures.

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Executive Director and leadership team, providing financial insight that informs organizational priorities, program investments, and long-term planning.
• Develop and maintain financial models that support BCFM’s evolving programs, including farmers markets, Food Hub operations, food access initiatives, fundraising growth, and future capital projects.
• Lead annual budgeting, monitoring, forecasting, financial planning, and scenario analysis.
• Provide thoughtful analysis of revenue streams, program sustainability, cost structures, and opportunities for growth.
• Support strategic decision-making with clear, accessible financial information.
• Support vendors and key stakeholders with best-in-class customer service to achieve mission goals.

• Oversee all accounting functions, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting.
• Partner with bookkeeping and accounting team members and contractors to maintain strong day-to-day financial operations.
• Strengthen accounting workflows, internal controls, reconciliations, and documentation.
• Support grant management and fundraising efforts.
• Evaluate and improve financial systems, tools, and processes as BCFM grows.
• Establish scalable practices that reduce organizational dependency on individual knowledge holders.

• Prepare monthly financial reports for leadership and the Board Finance Committee, translating financial results into meaningful insights.
• Manage annual audit preparation, tax filings, grant applications and reporting, and regulatory compliance.
• Ensure strong financial stewardship of restricted funds, grants, sponsor ships, and philanthropic investments.
• Partner with program leaders to improve budget ownership and financial decision-making across the organization.

• Collaborate closely with the Director of Operations and Executive Director to build the internal infrastructure required for organizational growth.
• Support improved systems for contracts, purchasing, vendor management, and operational planning.
• Help create a culture where financial information is accessible, understood, and used throughout the organization.
• Build strong relationships across teams, helping staff connect their work to organizational sustainability.

• Support BCFM’s long-term financial planning for major initiatives, including the development of a year-round market/community hub.
• Develop financial frameworks for capital planning, fundraising investments, earned revenue opportunities,…