Director of Finance

4 weeks ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States National Association for Healthcare Quality Full time
Job Title: Director of Finance

NAHQ is seeking a highly experienced and entrepreneurial Director of Finance to lead the development of financial processes and reporting, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance and accounting, with experience in developing and improving financial processes for a rapidly growing organization.

  • Lead the finance and accounting functions, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
  • Manage cash flow, investment strategies, and banking relationships to optimize liquidity and working capital.
  • Build financial models and analyses to aid in management decisions on product launches, GTM strategies, resource allocation, growth, cash flow management, and mission impact decisions.
  • Lead the annual financial audit and preparation of the necessary documentation to support the audit process.
  • Oversee the preparation of financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, and ensure compliance with GAAP.
  • Work cross-functionally, driving standardization and process improvement in all aspects of planning and reporting.
  • Prepare analysis and reports for the preparation of the annual 990 tax filing and lead the 990-preparation process.
  • Provide insight and recommendations to both short-term and long-term growth plans of the organization.
  • Identify and mitigate financial risks while seizing opportunities for growth and profitability.
  • Establish contingency plans and scenarios to effectively manage potential financial crises or disruptions, maintaining business continuity and minimizing impact.
  • Ensure compliance with all financial regulations, reporting requirements, and internal policies to mitigate legal and regulatory risks.
  • Spearhead the transition of accounting operations from external service providers to internal management within the next year, including the setup of accounting systems, development of new processes, and training of internal staff.
  • Monitor staff performance and develop goals consistent with the organization's strategic plan.
  • Travel to board meetings, client visits, and/or conferences up to 3-5 times a year, 2-5 day trips.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or relevant field; a CPA or MBA strongly preferred.
  • Progressive responsibilities in F&A leadership.
  • Demonstrated success in developing and continuously improving the FP&A (budgeting and forecasting) process for a rapidly growing organization with diversified product and services offerings, including cash flow forecasting and management.
  • Ability to develop B2B and B2C financial models from scratch across product and service offerings, experience working with intellectual property/R&D, tech capital amortization, brand/policy helpful.
  • Tech Savvy and able to directly develop reports/dashboards using advanced Excel, PowerBI, and/or Tableau, experience integrating data from multiple sources, CRM (Salesforce, Nimble, HubSpot), and financial ERP (Sage Intacct).
  • Effective communication skills, including influencing senior leadership & full organization to adopt new processes and data-driven decision making (change management).
  • Exceptional problem-solving and financial analytical skills.
  • Results-oriented, self-starter, entrepreneurial, deadline-conscious, intellectually curious, and has a willingness to learn.
  • Commitment to continual process improvement, the spirit of innovation, and teamwork.
  • Behave ethically: understand ethical behavior and business practices and ensure that own behavior and the behavior of others is consistent with these standards and aligns with the values of the organization.
  • Professionalism: Good judgment, ability to interact with all levels of staff and vendors, appropriate demeanor and appearance, confidence.

Preferred Experiences:

  • Grant management and reporting (small amount of incoming revenue) including work with demonstration projects and/or CMS.
  • Vendor management experience and a solid understanding of contracts management and compliance, banking relationship experience helpful.
  • Previous experience bringing accounting in-house from outsourced to public and/or building a lean accounting team from the ground up.
  • Knowledge of or experience with healthcare, workforce development, and/or quality standards helpful.
  • Direct accounting experience and knowledge of GAAP highly preferred.
  • Experience developing board/executive-level reports.

Office Environment:

  • This position is vital to the success of NAHQ, and the person must bring, in addition to professional knowledge, a personality well suited to work with individuals internal and external to the organization (staff, members, certificate holders, vendors, sponsors, etc.).
  • NAHQ is a collaborative, innovative, and open environment that asks its staff to be responsible for multiple programs, utilizing a variety of skills.
  • NAHQ's Values: Personal Accountability, Empathy, High Performance, Teamwork, Authenticity/Diversity, Organizational Ownership, Improvement, Service, Adaptability.
  • NAHQ's culture is high performance, and high impact, but limits draining behaviors associated with fear of failure, and unproductive competition.

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