Associate Vice President of Finance Accounting

LOCATION

Hybrid, minimum of 2 days a week in-office (Peachtree City, GA)

BranchED is a professional services organization and a collective of university faculty and leaders advancing educational excellence by expanding individual capacity, enabling supportive relationships, boosting institutional effectiveness, and collaborating with communities. We believe every student deserves access to caring, adaptive, and well-prepared teachers; every teacher deserves high-quality preparation that empowers, and every person benefits when we create a higher standard of education together.

We are committed to achieving programmatic transformation leading to improved outcomes for educators who, by extension, benefit all students by preparing them to maximize their life possibilities.

BranchED seeks an Associate Vice President of Finance & Accounting (AVPFA) who will build, manage, and support highly effective talent, culture and financial systems at a rapidly growing nonprofit organization with over 25 employees who are committed to shifting the life outcomes of America's young people by ensuring that they have culturally competent quality educators. This position will play a critical role in standardizing our existing systems, policies and procedures to improve and effectively manage BranchED's finances.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role will manage the Grants and Contracts Manager and an outsourced accounting resource to support a sound compliance driven internal control environment. The AVPFA will collaborate across the organization with programming teams, work closely with members of the executive team to lead, support high-priority strategic initiatives and the overall day-to-day financial operations for the organization.

The AVPFA is responsible for leading all financial operations, ensuring regulatory compliance, guidingstrategic financial planning, and supporting executive decision-making to maintain the organization's financial health. The AVPFA oversees the organization's accounting and financial functions, guidesthe budgeting processes, creates long-term financial plans, and works collaboratively with the COO and stakeholders (internal/external) to prudently manage the organization's resources and ensure a sound internal control environment.

Reporting to the COO, the AVPFA will work collaboratively across the organization with the CEO, Executive leadership, and the organization leaders and team members as appropriate.

• Provide inclusive financial leadership to the organization and direct reports ensuring the appropriate financial controls exist to protect the organization's assets.
• Serve as a thought partner and collaborator with the COO to recommend changes and efficiencies in the organization's control environment.
• Participate in or lead financial related training as needed to ensure that the organizational stakeholders understand financial, procurement, and control requirements necessary for organizational sustainability.

• Serve as lead accountant overseeing the accuracy and maintenance of the subledger and general ledger transactions, accounts receivable, accounts payable, timely month-end closing, and financial statement production consistent with GAAP.
• Lead, perform, or direct accounting as outlined fiscal policies inclusive of oversight of accounts payable/grants payable, accounts receivable, prepaids, accrued expenses, expense tracking, revenue tracking, investment reconciliation and payroll reconciliation.
• Lead monthly reconciliation of accounts receivable, accounts payable, grants payable, and payroll reports ensuring the accuracy of ledgers, expenses, receivables, payables and aging schedules, in compliance with contractual obligations.
• Support and review other support team members' work, reconciling accounts such as bank and credit card, efts, bill entries, and journal entries/cost allocation sheets where necessary.
• Record incoming revenue, communicate revenue receipts to appropriate parties, reconcilerevenue tracking to reflect most current donor records and provide oversight of conditional revenue workbook and reconciliation.
• Monitor and manage cash flow to support weekly bill payment cycle and bimonthly payroll operations.
• Oversee credit card program usage and reconciliation to ensure compliance with organizational policy and the prevention of fraud and abuse.

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