Finance Director
Description
Department : Administration
FLSA Status : Full-Time / Exempt
Salary : $100,000-$110,000
Location : 1824 Ellis Street, Bellingham WA 98225
Application Deadline : July 21, 2023
ABOUT BELLINGHAM FOOD BANK
Bellingham Food Bank is Whatcom County’s largest hunger relief organization. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We provide free groceries in a dignified setting to 1 in 5 Whatcom County households annually.
Bellingham Food Bank is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization.
VISION
We at Bellingham Food Bank envision a community with a thriving food system where everyone has equitable access to the food they need and want.
MISSION
We reduce hunger by :
- creating access to high quality, desirable food and other essentials.
- building a responsive regional hunger relief network.
- disrupting racism, because of its historical and structural connection to hunger and poverty.
VALUES
Quality & Choice : We offer a variety of high-quality foods, culturally relevant foods, and other essentials. We strive to create a welcoming, respectful, and dignified experience.
Justice & Equity : We believe hunger, poverty, and systemic racism are inextricably linked. Food justice is social justice.
Inclusion & Access : We actively work to remove barriers to food and essentials and to offer what is familiar and valued by our diverse community.
Responsiveness & Innovation : We are adaptive and curious. We listen, experiment, learn, and adjust as we seek ways to deepen our impact on both immediate needs and the root causes of hunger.
ABOUT THE POSITION
This position is a key leadership position for the food bank and will help guide its strategic direction, be a thought partner on large organizational decisions, and direct all aspects of the food bank’s finances and financial management.
A person in this role will use their skills in finance and administration to support our mission.
ABOUT YOU
Bellingham Food Bank values staff people who can bring deep empathy, compassion, and creativity to their work. We seek individuals who understand that food is a fundamental human right and who want to join us as we both provide food to our community and also work to undo the systems that have led to the need for food banks.
We also believe that humor, levity, and camaraderie are crucial to the work that we do!
We believe that applicable experience can be gained from many unexpected places and because we believe that there are many lived experiences that are at least as relevant to this work as a university degree or employment history.
Bellingham Food Bank’s staff is all fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and we will expect you to be fully vaccinated as well.
Fully vaccinated means a person has received all recommended doses in their primary series of COVID-19 vaccine.
We strongly support equal employment opportunity for all staff members, as articulated by federal, state, and local laws.
Alternatives to Hunger actively seeks to recruit individuals without regard to race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran status, national origin, or age.
Particularly, Alternatives to Hunger and all its staff members will comply with the AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) OF 1990, PUBLIC LAW 101-336, also referred to as the ADA’ 28 CFR Part 35, which provides comprehensive civil rights protection to individuals with disabilities in the areas of employment, public accommodations, state and local government services, and telecommunications.
Our equal employment opportunity philosophy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, training, promotion, transfer, job benefits, pay and dismissal.
The Finance Director is a critical leader within the Bellingham Food Bank and has a strong and influential voice with the Executive Director, key managers, and the Board of Directors.
They will help set the organization’s strategic direction, be a thought partner on large organizational decisions and will be key to the organization’s success.
The position will provide administrative and strategic support and counsel for the Executive Director on a regular and ad-hoc basis for issues related to all things administrative and operational.
This position will manage and supervise the food bank’s administrative team and oversee all accounting functions for the food bank including;
annual budgeting, supervision of QuickBooks A / P and A / R system, preparation and presentation of monthly financial statements and dashboard reports to the Board of Directors, developing and implementing financial policies and procedures, coordinating annual audit and 990 preparation with external auditors, and other business and tax reporting compliance as required.
They also serve as the organization’s grants and compliance manager, working closely with the Executive Director during the grant application process to help ensure completeness, qualification, compliance, integrity, and capacity;
they prepare all monthly or other periodic grant reports and compliance as required, working with federal, state, county, and city government staff as well as foundation and corporations to fulfill reporting obligations.
This position is also responsible for organizing and overseeing the organization’s data and data management using tools such as Salesforce, inventory management systems and will manage the systems to efficiently maintain and share data related to client services, inventory, donors, grants and other key data sets.
Specific Functions
Lead
- Lead annual budgeting process, periodic forecasting and weekly cash flow tracking
- Create programmatic budgets and work closely with staff leaders to track those budgets
- Plan, implement and document organization’s financial operations, procedures, and internal controls
- Prepare, review and analyze monthly financial reports for the Executive Director, Board Directors, and internal users of relevant financial information
- Maintain control over food bank funds to ensure compliance with requirements of funding sources
- Oversee and monitor the effectiveness of day-to-day accounting functions
- Direct cash activities to maintain appropriate and adequate cash levels and manage banking relationships to optimize service and minimize cost.
Prepare monthly bank reconciliations
- Annual financial audit and tax return preparation
- Prepare all annual state and city tax returns and information forms
- Salesforce administration, training, and support
- Financial grant reporting and compliance
- Monthly financial reviews with Board of Directors’ Finance Committee
- Regular review and reporting of organization’s monetary assets including its long term investments
Supervise and Support
- AP / AR processes, payroll, Executive Director with grant application preparation and reporting
- Human resources processes including payroll, hiring practices and employee benefits
- Administrative systems such as network hardware, computer network, and telephone
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or business, CPA preferred
- Minimum of five years of high-level financial management experience, nonprofit administration strongly preferred; demonstrated skills in application of GAAP
- Advanced computer and software skills, including Microsoft Office suite (including Excel pivot tables and / or PowerPivot), QuickBooks, Salesforce, database administration, and peer-to-peer fundraising software such as Classy
- Excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to professionally perform multiple, detail-oriented tasks with simultaneous deadlines, while managing shifting priorities in a busy office environment
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to maintain good working relationships with the administrative team, operating personnel, and other constituents who have varying levels of business acumen and financial literacy
Work Environment
Reports to and is supervised by Executive Director
A fast-paced administrative office, distribution center, and warehouse may require an employee to walk, stand, lift, and balance.
Benefits :
- Paid Sick / Vacation
- Medical / Dental / Vision
- Retirement Plan
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