Chief of Finance

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Position: Full-Time, Exempt
Salary Range: $150,000-$175,000 annually, commensurate with experience and qualifications
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:00 a.m.

-3:00 p.m.
Work Location: In person at Miracle Flights’ Las Vegas office
Direct Report: Finance Manager (to be hired by the Chief of Finance)

For more than four decades, Miracle Flights has helped children access specialized medical care by providing free commercial air travel to treatment destinations across the United States. Our mission removes distance as a barrier to care so children can reach the specialists and treatment they need, regardless of where they live.

Miracle Flights is bringing financial leadership in-house after utilizing a fractional CFO model. The Chief of Finance will serve as the organization’s senior financial leader and a strategic partner to the CEO, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors, with responsibility for financial stewardship, strategy, accounting, reporting, budgeting, compliance, treasury, investments, internal controls, and long-term financial sustainability.

The incoming leader will build the internal Finance function, including recruiting and directly managing a Finance Manager. This role requires an executive who is both strategic and hands-on: equally comfortable advising the CEO and Board on long-term financial and investment decisions and ensuring disciplined, accurate day-to-day financial operations.

• Serve as the principal financial advisor to the CEO and a key member of the executive leadership team.
• Lead short- and long-term financial planning and evaluate the financial implications of strategic priorities, programs, fundraising initiatives, capital needs, and organizational growth.
• Lead annual budgeting, multi-year planning, rolling forecasts, cash-flow projections, scenario analysis, and financial modeling.
• Monitor financial performance and communicate significant trends, structural variances, risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
• Develop sustainable reserve, liquidity, capital, and funding strategies that support mission delivery and organizational resilience.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, decision-useful guidance for executives, committees, and Board members.

• Provide executive oversight of the general ledger and monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll oversight, cash activity, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial statements in accordance with GAAP applicable to nonprofit organizations.
• Ensure appropriate revenue recognition, expense classification, functional expense allocation, and reporting of donor-restricted and unrestricted net assets.
• Develop useful management reporting, including department, program, grant, special event, budget-to-actual, cash-flow, and key performance reporting.
• Develop, document, maintain, and consistently apply accounting policies, procedures, close schedules, review standards, approval authorities, and segregation of duties.
• Provide financial oversight for individual contributions, corporate and foundation philanthropy, grants and contracts, sponsor ships, in-kind contributions, and other restricted and unrestricted resources.
• Ensure donor restrictions, grant conditions, gift agreements, board designations, and other funding limitations are accurately documented, monitored, released, reported, and honored.
• Oversee the financial aspects of the grant lifecycle, including proposal budgeting, award…