Finance & Administration Lead

Role Overview

• Serve as functional financial authority for all CHS Foundation and Community Giving grantmaking activity, ensuring compliance with IRS regulations, GAAP, and internal controls.
• Lead annual budget development, forecasting, and multi-year financial modeling for payout, commitments, and program strategies.
• Develop and manage cash flow forecasting for Foundation liquidity, endowment payouts, and multi-year grant liabilities.
• Collaborate with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and external auditors to ensure accurate financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
• Interpret financial statements, endowment performance data, and fund restrictions to provide strategic recommendations to Stewardship leadership.
• Own system architecture, coding structures, permissions, and workflow configuration.
• Design and maintain application, reporting, and payment workflows; optimize user experience.
• Maintain data governance standards and produce complex portfolio and financial reporting for leadership and boards.
• Lead annual external audit preparation, coordinating documentation, evidence, and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with IRS regulations, including 501(c)(3) verification, private foundation rules, and expenditure responsibility.
• Maintain internal policies and implement updates required by regulatory or operational changes.
• Supervise, coach, and develop the Grants Specialist; oversee workload, performance, and skill development.
• Define and continuously improve standard operating procedures, RACIs, and service-level expectations.
• Manage select Foundation program portfolios including strategy implementation, partner engagement, and outcome measurement.
• Conduct site visits, relationship management, funding recommendations, and final reporting for assigned portfolio.
• Develop KPIs, logic models, and annual program performance insights.
• Lead the development of Stewardship’s contribution to the CHS Sustainability Report, ensuring grantmaking, volunteerism, and community impact data are accurate, compelling, and aligned to enterprise reporting frameworks.
• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative impact data (e.g., outcomes, KPIs, stories, multi‑year trends) into clear narratives and metrics.
• Translate financial, operational, and program data into insights to support strategic planning and board decision-making.
• Support cross-enterprise initiatives including Spirit of Service Days, Giving Campaign, and volunteer engagement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in grants finance, foundation financial management, nonprofit accounting, or philanthropic operations.
• Advanced financial acumen, including experience with foundation budgeting, multi-year grant liabilities, endowment spending policies, and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise with grants management systems (Blackbaud preferred) and internal control frameworks.
• Experience translating grantmaking outcomes and community impact data into narratives and metrics for corporate sustainability, ESG, or annual social impact reports.
• History of supervising staff and leading complex cross-functional projects and processes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to translate financial concepts for non-financial audiences.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• wellness programs
• life insurance
• health and dependent care spending accounts
• paid time off
• 401(k)
• pension
• profit sharing
• short
• and long-term disability
• tuition reimbursement
• adoption assistance