Vice-President, Accounting and Finance​/Controller

Overview

Are you driven and passionate about ensuring that everyone has equitable access to health, education, and economic opportunity? Are you a natural leader who loves to build and develop teams? Are you a change-agent who is looking to make a lasting impact in your community and within your organization? If so, you may be just what we are looking for as we expand our team.

Take a closer look and reach out if you meet these qualifications.

The Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller reports to the President & CEO. The role is responsible for the direct management of several key accounting and financial reporting functions within the organization, including budgeting, planning and forecasting; financial and regulatory reporting; internal controls and risk management; research and analysis; the procure-to-pay cycle; and compliance with contractual documents and government regulations. The Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will also be involved in supporting inbound and outbound grants management budgeting and reporting;

payroll, time & attendance, and employee benefits functions. The Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will be involved in supporting presentations to the Board of Directors and Finance and Audit committees; managing treasury and cash management duties; and will serve as a member of the Management Team. The Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will also lead, manage, coach and mentor up to five team members.

The Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will ensure that the organization has the policies, procedures, internal controls, segregation of duties and systems in place to support effective program implementation, compliance with restricted grants and donations and to ensure flawless audits. The Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will work closely with program leaders and their staffs, not only to educate them regarding finance procedures but also to explore how the finance function can support program operations and grants administration.

In addition, the Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will partner with the CEO, senior leadership, and the human resources (HR) and information technology (IT) staff to enhance and better integrate finance, HR, and IT functions.

And finally, the Vice-President of Accounting and Finance/Controller will work closely with the CEO to help create and sustain a great workplace within the Finance department for competent, highly motivated, and results-oriented people whose core values and work ethic align with the organization’s high performance and mission-driven culture; and whose skills and experience contribute to achieving the organization’s goals and objectives.

The characteristics of a great workplace that we aspire to create and sustain within the Finance department include: high employee morale, satisfaction, and retention; great customer service and a predisposition to collaborate and cooperate with colleagues; and the ability to achieve high productivity and measurable impact on a sustained basis.

Budgeting and Forecasting: Managing the annual revenue, expense and capital budgeting process, including providing staff with budget guidance, timeline, tools, training and hands-on assistance; promoting a budgeting culture and discipline characterized by the use of a zero-based bottom-up approach for creating and justifying annual budgets; conducting revenue and expense trend analysis and benchmarking to prepare a budget narrative and schedules that explain and substantiate the proposed budget;

and facilitating the review and approval process in collaboration with the CEO, including budget presentations to the CEO, Finance Committee and Board of Directors.

Enterprise Risk Management: Ensuring that the organization has the financial systems, policies, procedures, internal controls, segregation of duties and security access in place to safeguard assets and data; to prevent or detect fraud and conflicts of interest; to promote accurate and timely internal and external reporting and analysis; to ensure…