Senior Director of Finance, Capital Programs

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Full Time Professional Raleigh, NC, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

What if your expertise in finance could do more than manage numbers—it could help move capital, strengthen businesses, and create lasting economic opportunity across rural communities?

The Senior Director of Finance, Capital Programs is a strategic financial leader who will help shape how the Center manages, measures, and deploys capital for maximum financial and mission impact. This role brings together sophisticated financial modeling, portfolio management, data analytics, risk management, regulatory reporting, and mission impact measurement to inform critical business decisions and strengthen the Center’s capital programs.

As a member of a collaborative leadership team, the Senior Director will partner across Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Small Business Capital, Compliance, and other key functions to modernize financial systems, turn complex data into actionable insights, strengthen controls, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and expand impact. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable working with financial models and strategic questions—and understands that behind every data point, portfolio, and investment is an opportunity to help communities and businesses thrive.

If you are a forward-thinking finance professional who enjoys solving complex problems, connecting data to strategy, and using capital as a tool for meaningful impact, this is an opportunity to help shape what’s next.

About the NC Rural Center: Since 1987, NC Rural Center has worked to improve the quality of life for the state’s rural people and places. NC Rural Center operates with the core belief that our rural communities have inherent cultural value and are vital to the overall economic health of our state. We recognize that the changing landscape of rural communities brings with it significant challenges, but we also believe in the resiliency of our state’s rural people and their dedicated stewardship of the communities they call home.

As part of this stewardship, NC Rural Center manages several intermediary small business capital programs that promote economic growth. The first is a suite of federally funded State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) programs which catalyze investment across all 100 North Carolina counties in partnership with community banks and venture capital firms. The second is a small business loan participation program for CDFI’s and MDIs across a regional footprint, managed through Corner Square Community Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rural Center.

These small business capital programs total approximately $300 million in assets under management and are expected to exceed $500 million in the next five years.

The Senior Director of Finance, Capital Programs manages a team that is responsible for leading the strategy, design, governance, and delivery of data products that support mission-critical regulatory and financial reporting for the Center’s capital programs, This leader will work closely with Finance, Regulatory Reporting, and Small Business Capital teams to design and maintain high-quality data assets, drive modernization of financial data platforms, strengthen reporting systems, and guide the use of data to increase impact and improve efficiency.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Modeling and Tracking

• Develop and manage complex, dynamic financial models, including income statement, cash flow and balance sheet activity by product;
  Develop cash flow projections that…