Finance · Full-time · United States · Remote possible
EdOps School Finance Specialist
The school finance specialist position is ideal for an individual looking to apply business, analytical, and finance/accounting skills to the social sector. You will have the opportunity to support schools with their day-to-day operations as well as help drive strategic decisions with data-driven insights.
Reports to a Finance Team Manager. Location flexible.
Who we are:
EdOps is a Washington, DC-based B-Corp focused on minimizing the financial, operational, and compliance demands of running a school and supporting education leaders with data-driven insights to improve student outcomes. Simply put, we make it easier for school leaders to increase student achievement. We work with all the schools that need us. Our growing team of 100+ professionals work with over 100 schools and school networks nationwide. We are serious about being the best possible partners to schools, and it shows in our 99% annual client retention rate and rapid growth rate. We work hard at being a rewarding, enjoyable workplace where staff can grow professionally and make an impact, and we were recognized as a Washington Post Top Workplace 2020. We are looking for education focused, finance loving, collaborative people to join our team.
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Who you are:
Find joy in solving financial problems for individual schools. The little things make schools actually work.
Care about education and outcomes for students as much as you care about budgets, forecasts and well designed financial processes.
Able to zoom in and out between high level strategic perspective and detailed, daily accounting and financial work.
Desire to be involved in the financial processes from input to analysis. We are outsourced CFOs but also controllers, accountants, and everything in between.
Strong in independent problem solving. We are a very collaborative community that supports each other, but our specialists solve new problems every day.
Energized by being in a customer service role. We are here first and foremost to serve our school clients.
Knowledge of schools and how they work.
Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Open to learning and growing in these areas together so that each of us can contribute to building a culture of equity and support our schools in advancing these values. Please see more on EdOps's commitment here.
What you need:
Strong organization and time management skills. There is a lot going on here.
Intermediate Excel knowledge, such as formulas like vlookups and sumifs, because Excel will be your best friend in executing on everyday financial work.
Direct work experience and/or degree in finance or accounting or related field.
Strong quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, as every school is different, and approaches and solutions often have to be customized.
Ability to collaborate with people at every level of an organization with a strong desire to help others do their best work.
Strong client communication and interpersonal skills. Comfort presenting and explaining info (both verbally and in writing) to people with varying financial literacy. A Specialist might in one day complete annual forecasting that will be provided to a full board of finance and education professionals, email a payroll provider about a technical 403b issue, and help create a grant budget with a school’s development department.
General comfort with technology systems (e.g., Google suite, financial systems) because we are not big fans of paper around here at EdOps.
Coursework or experience in education, nonprofit management, or finance and accounting.
Typically, Finance Specialists have 5-8 years of work or post-secondary educational experience.
What you get:
We know that a team from a wide range of backgrounds with different life experiences, identities, opinions, and talents makes us better able to innovate and deliver on our mission of supporting schools to improve student outcomes. Every day we work to build an inclusive company culture where everyone can be themselves at work and do their best work.
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