Act as an outsourced CFO for a portfolio of 5-8 Michigan schools, advising these schools’ leaders and Boards on matters pertaining to financial and operational policies, strategic decisions, and long-term financial planning.
Produce forward-looking financial forecasts, set budgets, and lead finance strategy development in a way that aligns with school goals and reflects EdOps’s commitment to equity and anti-racism.
Attend finance committee or board meetings to present and explain finance strategy.
Analyze, model, and solve problems on a wide range of business issues.
Engage in client listening and endeavor to proactively identify and solve clients’ financial challenges
either directly, or through engaging other teams at EdOps.
Provide development and informal oversight to School Finance Specialists and School Finance Analysts on school-specific processes.
Actively contribute to EdOps’s internal research, development and innovation of our finance product.

Experience excelling in a School Finance Management role in public or charter schools in Michigan (i.e., led finance function for a school, led part of a finance function in larger school organization)
Experience as part of a School Leadership Team or working very closely with a School Leadership Team.
Comfort with accounting.
Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs, because Excel will be your best friend at times.
Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, as every school is different, and approaches and solutions often have to be customized.
Excellent client communication and interpersonal skills.
Strong organization and time management skills.
General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite) because we are not big fans of paper around here at EdOps.
Typically, School Finance Managers have 10-15 years of work or post-secondary educational experience.
Experience leading audits.

Purpose driven work focusing on student achievement through operational excellence.
Chance to work every day with colleagues who are committed to kids and supportive of each other’s efforts.

School Finance Manager – CFO/Director of Finance

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