Chief Finance & Business Officer

About the Dream Center

Founded in 1994 by Pastor Tommy Barnett and led today by Pastor Matthew Barnett, the Dream Center is a beacon of hope in the heart of Los Angeles. What began as a small outreach to hurting families has become a twenty-four-hour, seven day a week spiritual and social services campus serving tens of thousands of individuals and families each month. For more than three decades, the Dream Center has stood as a refuge for the broken, a home for the homeless, a family for the forgotten, and a lighthouse pointing people to the life changing love of Jesus Christ.

Under Pastor Matthew’s leadership, the Dream Center continues to expand its programs, strengthen its citywide impact, develop new partnerships, and position itself for long term organizational stability and generational influence. As the ministry grows in scope, scale, and opportunity, the Dream Center is building a strong executive team to ensure excellence, integrity, transparency, and stewardship in every area of the organization.

The Chief Finance and Business Officer (CFBO) is a key executive leadership role designed to bring strategic oversight, professionalism, and long-term financial sustainability to the Dream Center.

The Chief Finance and Business Officer provides executive leadership, strategic direction, and hands‑on oversight for all financial, business, operational, and investment functions of the Dream Center. The CFBO ensures that the Dream Center maintains the highest standards of financial integrity, legal compliance, operational excellence, investment stewardship, and sustainable growth. This leader builds systems, modernizes processes, strengthens accountability, and helps safeguard the long‑term financial health of the ministry.

The CFBO reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and works closely with the Board of Directors, the Finance Committee, the Audit Committee, legal counsel, external auditors, and department leaders across all Dream Center entities.

This role oversees three primary divisions:

The CFBO leads the financial engine of the entire organization and ensures accuracy, compliance, transparency, and stewardship.

Responsibilities include:

• Overseeing all financial reporting, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow analysis, donor revenue reports, and departmental budgets
• Managing the annual budgeting process and multi‑year financial planning
• Ensuring accuracy and integrity in all accounting practices
• Managing tax filings, state and federal compliance requirements, and all legal financial obligations
• Overseeing annual audits with external auditing firms
• Ensuring compliance with nonprofit financial regulations and best practices
• Strengthening internal controls and financial policies
• Supervising the accounting team, including the Controller, accounts payable and receivable, and financial analysts
• Providing monthly and quarterly reports to the CEO, Board, and Finance Committee
• Leading continuous improvement of financial systems, software, workflows, and standard operating procedures

The Dream Center is a large, complex, multi‑program campus that includes several income‑generating enterprises, leased partnerships, and operational ventures. The CFBO oversees:

• Property Management: Oversight of all Dream Center owned and leased properties ensuring safety, compliance, maintenance, capital planning, and operational efficiency
• Dream Center Gym: Operational oversight of the commercial fitness facility, budgeting, revenue tracking, staff oversight, and membership growth strategy
• Dream Center Recording Studio: Oversight of the studio’s business operations, staffing, scheduling, partnerships, and revenue
• Merchandise and Online Store: Management of Dream Center merchandise operations, oversight of product development, inventory, pricing, marketing, sales, order fulfillment, and financial tracking
• Medical Center and Counseling Center Partnerships: Overseeing contracts and agreements with external partners…