Director of Internal and External Reporting

Description

The Director of Internal and External Reporting provides strategic and operational leadership for the organization’s financial reporting, analysis, accounts payable, accounts receivable, forecasting, and financial information management functions. This role ensures financial activity is accurate, timely, and effectively translated into meaningful information for executive leadership, program teams, the Board, auditors, funders, and other stakeholders.

The Director serves as a key bridge between financial operations and management decision-making, ensuring that the organization’s accounting activity, financial reporting, and analysis are coordinated, reliable, and aligned with organizational priorities.

Requirements

• Lead timely and standardized monthly financial reporting for the organization, departments, programs, and grants.
• Establish reporting standards, calendars, formats, and expectations to ensure consistency and accountability.
• Oversee budget-to-actual reporting, variance and trend analysis, dashboards, and key financial performance indicators.
• Ensure financial information provided to executives, program leadership, the Board, funders, governmental agencies, auditors, and other stakeholders is accurate, clear, and actionable.

• Provide leadership and oversight of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, including invoicing, payments, billing, cash receipts, deposits, reconciliations, collections, and aging activity.
• Ensure transactions are processed accurately and timely in accordance with purchasing, contracting, grant, and organizational requirements.
• Monitor AP and AR activity for aging, unusual, duplicate, or potentially inappropriate transactions and coordinate resolution with appropriate teams.
• Maintain appropriate internal controls and segregation of duties over payments, cash receipts, banking activity, and receivable adjustments.

• Lead financial forecasting and performance analysis in partnership with the CFO and Director of Financial Planning, Grant Management & Procurement.
• Integrate accounting, grant, program, and operational information into forecasts, financial models, and scenario analyses.
• Oversee consistent grant-level budget-to-actual reporting and partner with Grant Financial Managers to monitor spending, allocations, funding trends, and financial risks.
• Identify significant financial trends, variances, and emerging issues and provide recommendations to leadership.

• Coordinate with the Senior Accountant and financial operations staff to ensure timely monthly and year-end close processes.
• Review significant fluctuations, unusual activity, and accounting issues that may affect management or external reporting.
• Ensure appropriate accounting adjustments and financial information are incorporated into reporting.
• Coordinate financial schedules, documentation, and responses for the annual audit and other external reviews.

• Lead the development of reporting datasets, dashboards, analytical tools, and other financial information resources.
• Improve the efficiency, automation, accessibility, and reliability of financial reporting.
• Identify data quality issues and work with Finance and operational teams to resolve them.
• Use financial and operational data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and areas requiring management intervention.

• Provide leadership to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, reporting, and analytics functions.
• Establish clear expectations for quality, timeliness, internal controls, and accountability.
• Collaborate closely with Grant…