Controller, Finance & Banking, Financial Manager

Overview

Nexus Family Healing is looking to hire a Controller to join our fantastic Finance department!

For more than 50 years, Nexus has empowered thousands of children, families, and adults to find hope and healing. What started in 1972 as a single program in Minnetonka, Minnesota has grown into a nationally recognized network across five states. As a progressive leader in youth and family mental health, we're driven by a clear mission: to close gaps in care and create brighter futures for those we serve.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

• Full-time Hybrid from Minnesota opportunity
• Starting salary range: $,000 annually

• Five weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401k match
• NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
• NEW Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion
• And much more!

Our Controller will support all Nexus business entities and agencies by providing supervision, guidance, and oversight of financial reporting processes; ensure accuracy of financial reporting data; ensure compliance with accounting principles, policies, and procedures. Oversee the day-to-day activities of the corporate accounting department; analyze financial performance.

• Ensures the timely and accurate preparation, review, and distribution of the monthly financial statements including the Chart of accounts; communicates financial results and metrics to senior management
• Ensures the timely and accurate recording of all transactional accounting data to the general ledger.
• Ensures accounting systems, procedures, and controls are in place and integrated to support effective accounting practices and audits.
• Prepares audit-ready financial statements and schedules as well as the Form 990s.
• Analyzes financial performance in general and against budget and identify positive/negative problems/trends that warrant discussion with management team members.
• Collaborate with the Director of Accounting and CFO on cash flow management; provides organizational information and direction when appropriate.
• Lead new business/post-acquisition integration and implementation into Nexus  accounting systems and ensure the subsidiaries  adoption of Nexus  key accounting policies and procedures.

• Directly supervises the Home Office Accounts Payable Coordinators.
• Provides leadership, supervision and mentoring to accounting team direct reports; provides meaningful and consistent performance feedback including providing annual performance evaluations.
• Provides guidance to staff; provides consultation and assistance to senior leaders on financial performance issues; provides context and education around accounting principles as needed.
• Participates in the recruitment and selection of accounting support staff at the home office and agencies; works to build high performing and successful teams rooted in the same mission and goals.
• Ensure ongoing training and development of staff to enhance technical competency; serves as an engaging leader who acknowledges, engages, rewards and recognizes employees.
• Communicates and sets clearly defined performance expectations; ensures staff understands and performs their work in an efficient and high-quality manner.
• Evaluates staff members on work performance standards, accomplishments, and developmental goals.

• Enforces, maintains and continually reviews a system of internal controls over the accounting transactions to ensure accurate and reliable financial reporting consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Oversees the internal auditing function for the company and helps the Director of Accounting in managing the external audit process for all entities by ensuring that the audit process is performed in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Reviews, develops, and applies appropriate accounting policies, procedures, and controls to be used at all agencies; collaborates with the Vice President of Finance on cost reporting, budget, and compliance.
• Ensures Nexus and individual agencies are in compliance with all property tax filings and payments; stays apprised of and exhausts all of all tax credits, opportunities and tax advantages, in individual states.
• Proactively identifies opportunities for process improvement in existing business processes that impact
• Finance; participates in the development and implementation of process and procedural improvement.
• Ensures financial compliance with federal,…