Chief Financial Officer

- Assist in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization's mission and help execute staff succession and growth plans.

- Train the Finance Unit and other staff on raising awareness and knowledge of financial management matters.
Work with the President/CEO on the strategic vision including fostering and cultivating stakeholder relationships on city, state, and national levels, as well as assisting in the development and negotiation of contracts.

- Participate in developing new business, specifically: assist the CEO and COO in identifying new funding opportunities, the drafting of prospective programmatic budgets, and determining cost effectiveness of prospective service delivery.

- Assess the benefits of all prospective contracts and advise the Executive Team on programmatic design and implementation matters.

- Ensure adequate controls are installed and that substantiating documentation is approved and available such that all purchases may pass independent and governmental audits.

- Provide the COO with an operating budget. Work with the COO to ensure programmatic success through cost analysis support, and compliance with all contractual and programmatic requirements.

This includes:

- interpreting legislative and programmatic rules and regulations to ensure compliance with all federal, state, local and contractual guidelines,

- ensuring that all government regulations and requirements are disseminated to appropriate personnel

- monitoring compliance.

Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for the organization including: organizational revenue/expense and balance sheet reports, reports to funding agencies, development and monitoring of organizational and contract/grant budgets.