Chief Financial Officer

Abode Seeks Chief Financial Officer for Property Management & Housing Development!

A Day in the Life:

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) provides strategic financial leadership for two of the three agencies within the Abode family - Abode Property Management and Abode Housing Development. The role is responsible for building and maintaining strong financial systems, reporting, and forecasting to support long-term organizational health and growth. As the organization grows and evolves, this role may expand to support broader enterprise financial leadership across additional Abode entities.

The CFO leads a high performing finance and operations team, including the Controller, and accounting staff, with a focus on developing people and ensuring strong financial stewardship.

How You Make an Impact:

Financial Leadership & Strategy

• Serve as the internal financial leader responsible for all strategic and day-to-day financial activities, providing leadership and management consistent with the mission and core values of Abode and related entities referred to above to fulfill the organization's mission and vision.

• Develop tools and analysis of short- and long-term strategic financial decisions, internal and external processes, and ensure timely, accurate and complete reports on the financial condition of Abode Property Management and Abode Housing Development.

• Hold all parts of Abode Housing Development and Abode Property Management accountable for all aspects of financial management for their functions or practices, including budgets and revenue planning, expense management, and all related decision-making.

• Prepare and share timely financial data that clearly articulates financial performance and health at the departmental and project levels, empowering leads to make sound decisions and providing transparency to the rest of the organization where appropriate.

• Work closely with the controller to ensure strong internal controls, financial policies, and systems for all aspects of financial accounting (in line with GAAP, OMB, and relevant best practices) to minimize and mitigate risks and ensure responsible stewardship of the agency's resources (e.g., accounting policies and procedures, investment management policies, accounting systems and expense systems).
• Design, manage, and continuously improve the processes and systems that enable financial management at the agency to thrive (cash flow analysis and planning, internal and external reporting, organizational and project budgeting and forecasting, annual organizational and project audits, the agency's chart of accounts, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, and time allocations).

Budgeting & Financial Planning

• Strategize alongside other senior management and executives in identifying, developing prospective budgets, and evaluating cost effectiveness of new programs and funding opportunities.

• Partner with the HR team to ensure human resources are effectively resourced against the agency's funding streams, while also solving for the needs of projects, partners, and individual team members.

• Plan, budget and identify property for acquisition or sale; engage with the team in negotiations with buyers, sellers, contractors, partners, and vendors; assure compliance with contract terms.
• In collaboration with the Chief Property Management Officer, the Chief Real Estate Officer and other leaders, develop the annual operating budget to ensure programmatic success through cost analysis support, and compliance with all contractual and programmatic requirements. This includes interpreting legislative and programmatic rules and regulations to ensure compliance with all federal, state, local and contractual guidelines. ensuring that all government regulations and requirements are disseminated to appropriate personnel, and monitoring compliance.

Team Leadership & Operations

• Oversee complex affordable housing and multi-entity financial structures, including intercompany accounting, cost allocation methodologies, management fee structures, partnership accounting, and financial reporting across multiple entities
• Oversee and train the finance team to ensure effective controls and communication around reporting (internally and externally), annual budget creation, purchasing and payroll for staff and participants, adherence to GAAP and A-133 audit requirements, and cash flow management.
• Collaborate with the Chiefs to design and implement operational, infrastructure, systems, processes, and personnel strategies that support high quality programming, organizational growth, and continuous improvement, while maintaining alignment with the Chief Property Management Officer and Chief Real Estate Officer to ensure financial strategies support regulatory compliance, operational performance, and long-term portfolio sustainability.

Compliance & Assets

• Direct the maintenance of the inventory of all fixed assets in collaboration with the asset management team including assets purchased with government funds (computers,…