Finance Manager

What We Can Achieve Together:

The Finance Manager (Manager) works within a financial services unit (pod) and serves as the senior finance leader for an assigned business unit. They are primarily responsible for the financial management and strategic priorities of the business unit. The Manager partners closely with conservation, philanthropy, operations, and leadership to deliver strategic financial guidance, high-level analysis, and informed decision support. The Manager plays a key role in translating financial strategy into operational execution, ensuring that financial plans, analyses, and recommendations effectively support business objectives and organizational priorities.

Working in collaboration with the North and South Carolina Finance Director and Southern Division Finance Director, the Manager advances state, pod, and division financial priorities by implementing consistent processes, strengthening financial management practices, and fostering collaboration and operational excellence within the assigned business unit and across the Southern Division.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Finance Manager provides strategic financial leadership and serves as a trusted advisor to conservation, philanthropy, operations, and leadership within their assigned business unit. The role leads business unit-level financial planning, forecasting, reporting, analysis, internal controls, and stewardship activities that support informed decision-making and long-term financial sustainability. The Finance Manager delivers high-quality financial insight and guidance, translating financial strategy into operational execution while fostering strong partnerships and supporting organizational priorities.

The role promotes consistent financial practices and operational excellence, ensures effective stewardship of financial resources, compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements, and alignment with state, pod, divisional, and organizational priorities.

Location: Candidates must reside in North Carolina or South Carolina, and preferably near Raleigh-Durham, NC, or Charleston, SC.

Work Arrangement: This role may include remote and/or hybrid work arrangements depending on business needs and organizational policies. Regular travel and in-person attendance at staff meetings, leadership retreats, board meetings, and other key events are required.

RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE

• Serve as an active member of the leadership team, participating in leadership team meetings, staff meetings, retreats, and other forums to provide financial insight, support decision-making, and foster collaboration across the business unit.

• Lead financial planning activities including budgeting, forecasting, long-range financial planning, financial reporting, fiscal year-end activities, and other strategic financial initiatives.

• Deliver high-quality financial reporting, complex financial analysis, campaign development and support, scenario modeling, and recommendations that enable informed decision-making and support long-term financial sustainability.

• Identify financial risks and opportunities, evaluate alternatives, and develop recommendations to strengthen financial performance, optimize resource allocation, and achieve organizational objectives.

• Serve as the primary strategic finance partner to the assigned business unit, translating financial strategy into operational execution while maintaining strong partnerships with conservation, philanthropy, operations, and leadership.

• Ensure effective stewardship of financial resources through strong internal controls, compliance with organizational policies, donor requirements, regulatory standards, and generally accepted accounting principles, as applicable.

• Ensure the accuracy, integrity, and effective management of financial data, processes, and controls to support informed decision-making.

• Partner with philanthropy, conservation, operations, leadership, and other functional teams to provide financial guidance for fundraising initiatives, grants, contracts, campaigns, and strategic projects.

• Support governance activities by serving as a financial resource to state leadership, Boards of Trustees,…