CFO-Chief Finance Officer

Chief Financial Officer

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a key member of the Executive Leadership Team and provides strategic leadership and oversight of the organization's financial operations and overall fiscal health. This role is responsible for directing all financial functions, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, budgeting, compliance, audit, investments, and risk management.

In close partnership with the Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors, and executive leadership team, the CFO develops and implements forward-looking financial strategies that ensure long-term sustainability, growth, and alignment with the organization's mission. The CFO oversees organizational budgeting, financial planning, reporting, and regulatory compliance, ensuring integrity, accuracy, and transparency of all financial activities.

The CFO translates complex financial data into actionable strategic insights, driving informed decision-making across the organization. This role ensures that financial systems, structures, and practices support innovation, operational excellence, and organizational effectiveness. The CFO directly supervises the Director of Finance and finance team, maintaining strong internal operations while fostering an enterprise-wide, forward-thinking perspective. The role also establishes and maintains robust internal controls and ensures the timely preparation of accurate financial statements in accordance with GAAP.

As the organization's primary financial representative, the CFO serves as the key liaison to external stakeholders, including auditors, financial institutions, funders, and investment advisors. The CFO promotes strong cross-departmental collaboration, builds financial capacity among leadership and budget managers, and ensures access to timely, accurate financial information for effective fiscal oversight.

This position champions a culture of integrity, accountability, collaboration, and empowerment, aligning financial leadership with the organization's values, mission, and strategic objectives.

Essential Duties and Job Responsibilities include the following:

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on financial planning, organizational growth, and long-term sustainability.
• Partner with the CEO and Board of Directors to develop and implement financial strategies aligned with the organization's mission, strategic plan, and growth objectives.
• Lead financial modeling, scenario planning, and risk analysis to inform high impact organizational decisions, including expansion, capital projects, and new program development.
• Champion a culture of data-driven decision-making, ensuring actionable financial insights are embedded across all levels of the organization.
• Serve as the principal financial liaison to the Board of Directors and Finance, Audit, and Investment Committees-fostering strong governance and transparency.
• Responsible for presenting financial reports, forecasts, and strategic insights to the Board with clarity, accuracy, and transparency.
• Partner with the Board Treasurer and committee leadership to support and strengthen governance, financial oversight, and policy development.
• Interface with and manage relationships with external stakeholders, including auditors, financial institutions, funders, investment advisors, and regulatory agencies.
• Serve as the executive authority over all financial operations, ensuring strategic alignment, performance, and accountability across accounting, reporting, compliance, budgeting, and audit functions through the Director of Finance.
• Ensure enterprise-level financial reporting reflects the highest standards of integrity, accuracy, and timeliness, in full alignment with GAAP and organizational governance expectations.
• Direct and govern the development of the annual budget and long-range financial forecasts, ensuring enterprise alignment between financial planning, strategic priorities, and sustainable funding models.
• Oversee the evaluation of financial performance, driving proactive identification of risks and opportunities and implementing strategic actions to sustain financial health and optimize organizational effectiveness.
• Provide executive oversight of the organization's revenue cycle, ensuring efficient billing and collections processes and maximizing all reimbursable revenue streams.
• Lead and govern enterprise risk management, establishing strategies and controls to identify, assess, and mitigate financial, operational, and reputational risks across the organization.
• Provide executive oversight for the development and oversight of comprehensive internal controls, financial systems, and procurement practices to ensure asset protection, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk mitigation.
• Oversee organizational compliance, establishing systems and controls to ensure full adherence to regulatory, grant, and nonprofit financial requirements.
• Provide executive oversight of all audit processes and regulatory filings…