Controller, Finance & Banking, Financial Manager

Department: Finance and Administration

Position Title: Controller

Reports to: Director of Finance & Operations (DFO)

Classification: Full-time, Exempt

Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000

Location: In-person, 3515 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016

The Washington Ballet (TWB) seeks a dynamic, strategic, and experienced Controller to serve as a trusted partner to the Director of Finance and Operations. This financial leader will be responsible for all accounting and reporting activities. As the financial partner to the DFO, the Controller will be involved in supporting presentations to the Board of Directors, finance, investment, and audit committees and providing financial data to senior team members/department heads.

The Controller will lead all day-to-day accounting operations for a budget of $16 million and supervise one staff member with functional responsibility over accounts payable and accounts receivable. The Controller will work closely with the Senior Manager of Human Resources regarding payroll and with the Institutional Giving Manager on grant applications and reporting. The Controller will ensure that TWB has accounting systems and procedures in place to support effective program implementation and conduct flawless audits.

The Controller will work closely with staff members across the organization to educate them regarding accounting procedures.

• Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain internal control and safeguards for receipt of revenue, costs, and program budgets and actual expenditures.
• Coordinate all audit activities.
• Consistently analyze financial data and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Assist TWB’s leadership in the annual budgeting and planning process; regularly review and report on budget to actual results with a view to identify, explain, and allow departments to correct variances as appropriate.
• Support the DFO in engaging with the board’s audit and finance committees around issues and trends in financial operating models and delivery.
• Oversee all financial, project/program and grants accounting; ensure that expenditures are consistently aligned with grant and program budgets throughout the grant/fund period; collate financial reporting materials for government, corporate, and foundation grants.
• Create organizational cash flow forecasting.

• Leverage the strengths of the current finance team member, help to clarify roles and responsibilities, and develop and implement professional development and training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals.
• Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment.
• Actively participate in creating a work culture that embodies the core values of TWB;
  Creativity, Commitment, Communication, Collaboration, Compassion, and Community.

This is an excellent opportunity for a professional with at least five years of accounting and finance experience. The successful candidate will ideally have experience in a complex nonprofit that has multiple revenue streams.

• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and unwavering commitment to the Washington Ballet’s mission and to the power of dance.
• A proactive, hands‑on strategic thinker who will own, in partnership with the DFO, the responsibility for finance operations.
• Minimum of a BA in accounting; CPA preferred.
• Solid experience coordinating audit activities and managing reporting, budget development and analysis, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, payroll, and accounting for investments.
• A track record in grants management as it relates to compliance and reporting of government, corporate, and foundation grants is essential.
• Technology savvy with advanced knowledge of accounting and reporting software; experience with Sage Intacct preferred.
• Commit…