Director of Finance - CFO

As a member of senior leadership, the Director of Finance/CFO participates in planning and decision-making affecting the entire organization. This senior level position requires an experienced leader with a significant background in nonprofit management, finance, and accounting services.

The Director of Finance/CFO is responsible for managing the organization’s finance and accounting functions, including accounts payable and receivable, grant related funding, payroll, and all required accounting and financial reporting. This position oversees one direct report, the AP/AR Specialist.

This position is full-time, with 2‑3 days per week on site in our Saint Paul office. The budgeted pay range for this positions is:

$120,000 – $140,000

• Collaborates closely with the other members of leadership to provide oversight, strategic, and tactical direction for the organization, and to ensure the organization is managed in an effective, efficient, integrated, holistic, and participant‑centered manner.
• Provides leadership that is interculturally competent and sensitive to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, both with respect to the people the organization serves and to its staff. Committed to doing the work of anti‑racism.
• Actively contributes to creating and maintaining a workplace environment that fosters staff growth, development, and overall well‑being.
• Partners with human resources to recruit, hire, train, develop, motivate, and retain qualified staff.
• Develops, manages, and mentors direct reports, provides ongoing feedback and coaching, conducts coaching conversations, ensures compliance with all employment‑related policies and procedures.
• Models Women’s Advocates’ core values and continually seeks to strengthen the work culture.

• Manages day‑to‑day accounting activities, in a multi‑departmental setting.
• Maintains the fixed asset system for ongoing capital acquisitions and disposals.
• Recommends revisions to financial policies and procedures and implements changes based on best practices and needs of the organization.
• Ensures all financial records and reports are maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices.
• Maintains general ledger, performing month‑end close and account reconciliations.
• Manages short‑term and long‑term cash flow.
• Identifies opportunities for improved operating efficiencies.
• Prepares required schedules for annual audit and communicates with the auditors.
• Establishes and maintains professional relationships with bankers, vendors, and CPA firm.
• Provides financial analysis as needed to determine the financial impact of management decisions.
• Provides budget and financial support for grant proposals and post‑funding reports.
• Manages financial reporting for all government grants, including budget creation and management, billing, reimbursement requests, and interim and final reports.
• Provides direct supervision to Finance and Data Specialist.

• Maintains employee data in payroll software by collaborating with the Director of Operations and HR, ensuring all employee elections and changes are reflected timely and that payroll system is in agreement with records on file.
• Maintains payroll related accounts.
• Prepares bi‑weekly payroll utilizing third‑party payroll provider software.
• Manages the 403(b) plan and related functions.
• Ensures benefits deductions are accurate in payroll system each year and as changes are made.

• Leads the annual budgeting process with the Executive Director.
• In collaboration with other directors and managers across the organization, ensures annual program budgets are developed, implemented, and monitored consistent with the organization’s overall goals, mission, and strategic plan, and within parameters set by the Board and/or Executive Director.
• Provides training, overall guidelines and budget worksheets to managers with budget responsibility.
• Develops annual operating and capital budgets for presentation to the Board of Directors.

• Prepares all financial reports including but not limited to, monthly…