Director of Finance

Career TEAM is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives. We blend cutting-edge technology with compassionate, high-touch services to drive real, measurable outcomes in the lives of job seekers across the country. At Career TEAM, we’re solving today’s unemployment challenges with smart software, world-class trainers, dedicated case managers, dynamic job developers, and innovative partners. If you're passionate about making a difference and believe in the power of technology to transform lives, you’ll feel right at home here.

TITLE:

Director of Finance

REPORTS TO:

Chief Financial Officer

LOCATION:

Remote

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

Full-Time, Exempt Employee

At Career Team, our mission is to empower one person, start one career, and serve one family at a time. We do this through innovative software solutions and high-touch services.

As the Director of Finance
, you’ll be the finance leader who turns complexity into clarity. You’ll own the operating financial rhythm of today, while helping our executive team build tomorrow
-smarter, faster, and with only good surprises!

• Project and grant performance: Build a repeatable financial operating model for complex, compliance-heavy projects, including budget-to-actual comparisons, burn rates, cost allocation, and overall fiscal performance metrics.
• Client-facing deliverables: Partner with our Quality Assurance team to deliver accurate, timely, audit-ready financials that we’re proud to put our name on.
• Finance cadence that builds confidence: Lead monthly close and quarterly reporting activities, creating predictable outcomes with a clear narrative.
• Controls that support momentum: Strengthen controls and compliance while keeping the business moving fast.
• Strategy and Planning: Translate tradeoffs into decisions – forecasting, scenarios, and recommendations that help us pick the right direction together.
• Cross-functional problem-solving: Work hand in hand with the operations and client-facing teams when financial issues arise, before they become escalations.
• Scale the team; build the machine: Help position us for growth and the exciting chapters ahead!

• We change lives.
• We’re growing quickly and need leaders who want real ownership and real impact.
• We’re serious about the outcomes but have fun making them happen.
• Big enough to be interesting, small enough that your work changes the company.

• You’re fluent in the numbers and comfortable with the messy middle of scaling fast.
• You can move from deep analysis to executive conversation without missing a beat.
• You’re hands‑on when needed, but you’re always building people, processes, and tools.
• You simplify complicated things and build systems to keep them simple.
• You anticipate the communication before it's needed and always know your audience.
• You’re calm, direct, and you follow through.

• High trust, high accountability
• We obsess about our customers
• We value action over perfection, and iterate to get better every day

Founded in 1996, Career TEAM, LLC is a private workforce development organization.

• Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies
• Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation
• Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program
• Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider

Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Background Check Requirements. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.