Vice President & Controller

Leadership Competencies

• Accountability: Effectively manages own work, and work of teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality work.
• Communication: Uses effective written and oral communication; demonstrates empathy and listening. Exhibits high degree of comfort with public speaking.
• Critical Thinking: Consistently identifies, gathers, and applies relevant information to the work at hand.
• Customer-Service Orientation: Recognizes needs of diverse stakeholders and approaches relationships with a service-orientation, to ultimately maximize impact.
• Growth Mindset: Views growth as important for personal and professional development; seeks out opportunities to expand skills.
• Development Planning: Breaks down projects and tasks into process steps, while considering appropriate stakeholders, and executes them effectively; adjusting timelines and prioritizing as necessary.
• External Relationship Builder: Invests in and builds strong, trusted relationships with partners.
• Strategic Thinking: Considers the future of the organization proactively and responsively; weighs diverse inputs to inform strategies; identifies innovative opportunities when relevant.

Qualifications & Skills

• Executive-level leadership
• High emotional intelligence with a special talent for building caring relationships of high trust and respect.
• Sound problem solving skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis.
• Keen understanding of organizational and human dynamics.
• Ability to explain financial terms in simple language.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, confidentiality and a commitment to CHIME’s mission.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to confidently present to and encourage ideas and feedback from a diverse range of stakeholders, including volunteer leaders, team members, and partners.
• Superb collaboration and relationship-building skills
• Intuitive leadership and management style; ability to adapt approach rapidly to a diverse audience to foster and facilitate results.
• Results- and data-driven approach to work
• Collaborative and inclusive leadership approach.
• Ability to leverage partnerships and working relationships within and outside the organization.

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or finance. CPA and significant public accounting experience required. Graduate degree highly desirable. CAE designation a plus.
• At least ten years of accounting and tax experience within the non -profit industry. Minimum of seven years in a supervisory capacity, preferably a similar position.
• Technical Skills: Requires broad knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, legislation, taxation and regulations concerning non-profit reporting. Must have a strong understanding of computer systems and concepts as they relate to financial management. Hands-on experience with accounting and financial management software (e.g. Sage, Great Plains). Expertise in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Must have the ability to relate technical information to both accounting and non-accounting staff and translate regulation into application. Must understand relevant enterprise risks and the mitigation of those risks. Demonstrated successes in the areas of performance management and fostering growth within team members. Deep experience in financial management including developing and managing a budget; revenue forecasting and expense management.
• Experience developing and managing financial and accounting policies and practices as they relate to nonprofits with emphasis on 501(c) 3 and 501(c) 6.
• Excellent people skills, with experience collaborating in a multidisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team.

This is a remote based position, but limited travel may be required.