Chief Financial Officer

Position: Chief Financial Officer

Pay: $135,000 - $170,000 annually

Location: Getzville, NY

The Summit Center is Western New York’s leading provider of evidence-based services for children and adults with autism and other developmental, social, and behavioral challenges. Our team is dedicated to helping every individual we serve achieve their highest level of independence.

• 42 days of paid time off
• 14–16 paid holidays annually
• Potential for annual raises, incentive payments, and profit sharing
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance / Medical opt-out payment (up to $1,000/year)
• 401K with up to 4% employer match
• Life and long‑term disability insurance

A member of the Executive Leadership team, the Chief Financial Officer is a strategic partner to the Chief Executive and provides overall supervision of all financial aspects of the organization, including appropriate budgeting and financial reporting. This specifically includes ensuring fiscal accountability, developing annual budgets, providing timely financial reports, compliance with applicable state laws and regulations, monitoring accounts payable and accounts receivable, and assisting with reporting on the activities of the Summit Foundation and the Discovery Kids Day Care Center, affiliated entities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Personnel selection, supervision, and training of the Finance department, including purchasing, payroll, and billing functions
• Select and orient qualified candidates for all staff positions that are direct reports
• Provide a 6‑ and 12‑month appraisal of new direct‑report employees, and annually thereafter
• Ensure that all employees have a current job description and receive annual reviews
• Provide regular (at least biweekly) supervision of direct reports for communication and ongoing training and evaluation
• Assist the Director of Training to ensure that staff are well trained to meet the standards set by their position and the goals established by the agency
• Maintain regular communication with staff directly and indirectly under their supervision
• Participate as a member of the Executive, Senior, and General Leadership teams
• Participate in leadership meetings
• Participate in medium and long‑range planning and engage in specific activities to meet agency goals
• Actively participate in the development of a facilities master plan, continually updating and prioritizing needs in agreement with program requirements
• Attend local, regional and state meetings relevant to duties (e.g., Strategic Alliance, Preschool Alliance); regularly summarize and communicate information
• In cooperation with the Chief Executive Officer, complete an annual report to the Board of Directors by October 1st of each year for the prior fiscal year
• Actively participate in overarching agency evaluation
• Evaluates program expansion and new development as needed to fulfill the mission of the agency
• Ensure fiscal accountability
• Develop the agency budget and present to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Leadership team and the various committees of the Board of Directors as well as the full Board of Directors in June of each fiscal year
• Regularly monitor the fiscal health of the agency by reviewing a summary of revenue and expenses and developing and preparing program analytics on a monthly basis, including unit reporting
• Facilitate written and verbal communications and understanding of budget status with program leaders
• Monitor financial health of the agency on a continual basis and bring concerns to the attention of the Chief Executive Officer and/or Executive leadership team
• Prepare Internal Affairs Committee and Board Financial Reports, as well as all special report requests
• Contract and monitor the annual Agency financial statement audit, Discovery Kids financial statement audit, and 401(k) audit
• Oversee the preparation of the fiscal year and calendar year consolidated fiscal report (CFR) and benefit plan SS00's
• Implement recommendations in any auditor's management letter
• Ensure accounts payable are processed in a timely manner consistent with general accounting standards and responsible cash…