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Manager, Finance, Compliance and Data Systems

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Durham, NC, USA
Full-time

As the Manager of Finance, Compliance and Data Systems on the Teach For America Eastern North Carolina regional team, you play a critical role in designing best-in-class processes and systems necessary for our team of 25+ staff members across our rural region to be productive, efficient, and strong financial stewards. Given the complexity of our region, you are a systems designer who loves collecting and analyzing data to design and implement new systems for regional finance and compliance that will ensure we are having the highest impact possible region-wide. Reporting to the Senior Managing Director, Institutional Advancement, you will ensure that our team is practicing strong stewardship of our resources through a deep understanding of our budget, expenses, and financial processes. You will be responsible for a financial management infrastructure that tracks an evolving picture of both revenue and expenses that facilitates financial and operational decision making. You will also manage a performance and data management infrastructure that facilitates how we input, track, analyze, and report on our progress to goal towards key financial outcomes. You are an exceptional organizer of information, an analytical and strategic thinker, and a learner and relationship builder who is motivated by organizational innovation. You will add order and organization to the development of new operational systems and infrastructure; thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, goal-oriented environment; build relationships with and invest others, and work across multiple stakeholders. You are a team member who operates and leads with a commitment to constant learning for self and others and embodies flexibility and generosity alongside a drive towards achievement.   

Areas of Responsibility: 

The Manager, Finance, Compliance and Data Systems will be responsible for:

Financial Analysis and Budget Strategy (65%)

  • Co-set with the ED and SMD, Institutional Advancement the vision for and manage the regional budgeting, forecasting, and planning systems, which includes but is not limited to:
    • Support all functional teams to ensure they have proper structures to track budgets on a monthly basis, meet expense report deadlines, and process payments properly
    • Lead the process of monthly forecasting for teams by preparing reports and analyzing team spending on a monthly basis
    • Partner with the Leadership Team to support an annual budget and revenue planning process, including strategic analysis of optimal corps size, staffing structure, and functional resource allocation
    • Design, build, and continuously improve the systems and protocols to execute finance operations with excellence
  • Analyze regional revenue position to identify risks and opportunities in the development pipeline and budget and reserve implications
  • Lead the Institutional Advancement team’s annual planning process by providing revenue analyses and templates to support good goal setting and progress monitoring
  • Provide extensive report production including generating ad-hoc analyses and reports to meet internal and external requests for our regional financial position
  • Manage the team’s budget and spending by tracking monthly spending for all sub-team budgets forecasting for future spending based on up-to-date information
  • Continuously build your expertise and that of the regional team in budget management and finance so that budget and finance operations are informed by best practices, research, and are creative and innovative
  • Serve as national finance team point person to ensure fiscal responsibility and compliance with TFA’s financial policies
  • Track team member compliance with expense & reimbursement documentation submission
  • Create and submit expense reports for members of the ENC regional team
  • Pay monthly bill payments and create corporate credit card expense reports; confirm all invoices are paid on time

Data Reporting / Impact monitoring (20%)

  • Manage the collection and reporting of critical data points measuring our impact
  • Use national systems as a baseline to create regional systems that address the complexity of a rural region with multiple sub-regions
  • Translate data across multiple systems to ensure accuracy and continuity of reports
  • Lead the development of team norms on utilizing data systems to ensure accuracy and relevancy of collected data points; design and execute a plan for training staff members on how to use these systems
  • Customize the communication of data reports for multiple audiences
  • Manage data collection and usage of compliance systems, communicate trends to senior leadership team, and reinforce usage expectations
  • Prioritize key actions for the SMD, IA and Executive Director to take in ensuring team is on track to meet key metrics

Regional Responsibilities (15%)

  • Participate in region and organization-wide initiatives and events such as corps member selection, staff learning and development days, new corps member confirmation and Induction, and other critical regional events
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree recommended
Skills/Experience: 
  • 3 to 7 years of post-college work experience
  • Experience designing, investing stakeholders and managing the implementation of complex operational systems
  • Experience meeting individual and collective goals and achieving results
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel; comfort in learning and using new IT systems is required
  • Extreme attention to details and the ability to organize information with efficiency and usability for multiple users and purposes
  • Ability to navigate complex policies and procedures and invest others in them
  • Ability to cultivate relationships across the region and organization in order to seek continual input and feedback, and to invest others in organizational compliance, improvement, and innovation
  • Strong reasoning skills and the ability to make connections between previously unrelated notions and integrate findings into meaningful and actionable strategies or solutions
  • Exemplifies Teach For America’s core values and demonstrates an ability to work with a diverse set of teammates and stakeholders
  • Approach the work with a flexible, innovative, and service-oriented perspective

Work Demands

  • Ability to travel to event locations around the Eastern North Carolina region
  • Some weekend and evening work required

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jul 5 2019
Active Until: 
Aug 5 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit