Director of Finance

As a Director of Finance at Communities Connected for Kids, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:

• Opportunities to make a positive impact in the lives of children in need of support
• Unique rewards that come from seeing families improve and flourish with the services you referred them to
• A hybrid remote work environment, allowing for flexibility and limited in person or in-office expectations
• Quality comprehensive Benefits including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and competitive 403b retirement plus 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period for new hires! Home | Bene Portal
• This position requires a background screening in accordance with FS 435.12. See the following link for more information:

Our Communities Connected for Kids Program provides services for children and families in the child welfare system, to ensure a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment. Based out of Port Saint Lucie, FL, this position leads the operations of financial accounting, accounts payable, and accounts receivable to ensure timely and accurate financial records, financial reporting, analysis, and forecasting. This position requires the following essential job functions and professional skills:

Essential Functions:

• Oversee the daily operations of all financial functions.
• Responsible for timely and accurate data in the accounting software system, state-approved web-based system (FSFN/CCWIS), and ancillary systems, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Oversee cash, accounting, asset management, and banking relationships, including cashflows, planning and ensuring availability of funds as needed.
• Effectively leverage funding sources to maximize and enhance programmatic service delivery systems.
• Oversee processing deposits, disbursements, petty cash and client fund transactions.
• Assist CFO with month-end closings, journal entries, reconciliations, analyses, budgeting, projections, and financial reporting, ensuring compliance with contracts, laws and regulations, grants, and policies, and sharing with Board of Directors, Senior Management, and other departments and stakeholders as required.
• Develop and maintain appropriate internal controls, policies and procedures, and effective mechanisms to mitigate risk (such as insurance and safety).
• Communicate with vendors, employees and other stakeholders to resolve any discrepancies and/or field inquiries.
• Understand and apply non-profit administrative cost principles.
• Responsible for being knowledgeable in funding streams and FSFN/CCWIS as they relate to eligible client services within multiple DCF programs, including knowledge of DCF’s Other Cost Accumulators (OCAs) and how they fit into financial operations.
• Coordinate independent and other audits, reviews and inquiries, providing information and responses as needed.
• Ensures timely and proper filing of tax returns.
• Responsible for directing and overseeing Finance, Eligibility, and Master Trust departments, and providing administrative support, backup and cross-training for CFO, Finance, Eligibility, Master Trust and related functions.
• Attends staff meetings, in-service training and other meetings, staffings, conferences or other events as necessary – virtual and in-person. Requires periodic travel.
• Other duties as assigned.
• This list of essential functions is not intended to be exhaustive. CCKids reserves the right to modify this job description to ensure compliance with the actual job requirements.

Lead FSFN/CCWIS Data Entry Functions

• Oversee the operations and approvals of client-related services and payments in FSFN/CCWIS, including the input, processing and approvals of foster board, adoption subsidy,…