Finance Manager

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is one of the nation's leading national racial justice legal organizations. Formed in 1963 at the request of President John

F. Kennedy, the Lawyers' Committee uses legal advocacy to achieve racial justice, fighting inside and outside the courts to ensure that Black people and other people of color have the voice, opportunity, and power to make the promises of our democracy real.

Finance Manager

Washington, DC

Full-Time

Non-Union

Vice President of Finance

The Finance Manager is the operational lead for accounting operations, financial reporting processes, internal controls, and outsourced accounting vendor performance. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Finance, this role leads fiscal responsibility, regulatory compliance, and accurate financial reporting to support the organization's mission.

The Finance Manager directly supervises the Senior Accountant and manages the day-to-day relationship with the Lawyers' Committee's outsourced accounting vendor to ensure seamless, accurate, timely, and well-documented financial workflows.

This role is expected to maintain strong operational visibility into core finance processes and documentation, so the department has backup coverage and continuity. The Finance Manager supports VP-level work by preparing accurate schedules, reconciliations, analyses, documentation, and issue summaries.

Essential responsibilities of the Finance Manager include but are not limited to the following:

• Supervise accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, ensuring accurate coding, timely vendor payments, effective revenue processing, and efficient donor and grant revenue tracking.
• Maintain, implement, and monitor internal control systems to safeguard organizational assets and support compliance with GAAP, uniform guidance, funder requirements, and organizational policies.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for the outsourced accounting vendor; monitor deliverables, resolve workflow issues, maintain an issue and escalation log, and ensure timely, accurate, and well-documented accounting services.
• Support clear segregation of duties, approval workflows, documentation standards, and cross-training to reduce single points of failure within accounting operations.

• Lead the month-end and year-end close processes, including bank reconciliations, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, close calendars, supporting schedules, and documentation follow-up.
• Prepare timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and supporting schedules for review by the Vice President of Finance and organizational leadership.
• Monitor daily financial operations and provide regular updates on cash flow, liquidity needs, receivables, payables, and operational finance issues requiring attention.
• Identify close delays, reconciliation issues, coding concerns, or documentation gaps and elevate matters to the Vice President of Finance as appropriate.

• Partner with development, program teams, and the outsourced accounting vendor(s) to maintain accurate restricted-fund accounting, prepare budget proposals, support funder reporting, reconcile grant activity, and ensure proper revenue recognition within the organization's financial systems.
• Maintain grant and restricted-fund schedules, documentation, and reconciliations that support audit readiness, funder reporting, Development reconciliations, and program budget monitoring.
• Oversee automated grant accounting workflows by reviewing data accuracy, resolving exceptions, documenting processes, and escalating risks or system issues to the Vice President of Finance.

• Serve as the lead staff liaison for the annual independent financial audit, including preparing schedules, pulling samples, assembling audit binders, coordinating documentation requests, and tracking open items.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local reporting requirements, including preparing data for IRS Form 990, 1099s, registrations, funder reports, and other regulatory or compliance matters.
• Maintain audit-ready files, reconciliations, policies, and accounting documentation in coordination with the Vice President of Finance and outsourced accounting vendor.

• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate assigned finance staff; support professional growth, accountability, cross-training, backup coverage, and a collaborative service-oriented team environment.
• Continuously assess accounting workflows to identify efficiencies, automate manual processes, strengthen documentation, and leverage Sage Intacct and other financial systems effectively.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, close checklists, vendor…