Director, Financial Planning & Analytics

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks an enthusiastic, dedicated, and mission-aligned Director to join the Finance department. 

The Director of Financial Planning & Analytics will bring a passion for the mission of Harlem Children’s Zone: break the cycle of intergenerational poverty with comprehensive, on-the-ground programming that builds up opportunities for children and families to thrive in school, work, and life.

The Director of FP&A will lead budget development, resource management, forecasting, financial reporting, and analytics. This position will supervise two direct reports, report directly to the CFO, and be a member of the Finance Leadership Team. This position will involve working closely with senior-level staff and having exposure to the Executive Leadership Team.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or other quantitative discipline
• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience with FP&A in a corporate setting, with at least $100M in annual revenues.

Who you are

• Experience hiring, developing, and managing direct reports.
• Demonstrated expertise in process design and implementation.
• Strong familiarity with ERP systems, FP&A best practices, and Excel
• Detail-oriented self-starter with the initiative to drive projects to timely conclusions.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), including the ability to balance business partnership with accountability and create rapport with non-financial colleagues.

What you’ll do

• Financial point of contact for key stakeholders across multiple functions, providing guidance on financial performance and ad-hoc analytics.
• Collaborate with various departments including accounting, operations, IT, development, and programs to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to financial planning and analytics.
• Lead the annual budgeting process; create financial models, including forecasting and planning to support decision-making.
• Develop and maintain FP&A’s key highlights/KPIs.
• Manage monthly financial review of revenue and expenses and create ad-hoc reports, analyses, and presentations, including for the Board of Directors
• Refine data systems and tools to track performance, provide reporting solutions, and enhance operational oversights.
• Work collaboratively with the accounting department to support the closing process and audit.
• Lead, coach, and develop a senior financial analyst.
• Timely preparation of all finance-related materials and supporting documentation for grant proposals, funding renewals, budgets, etc.
• Track all grant funding across the organization.
• Develop and maintain uniform financial reporting for all grant proposals and reporting.
• Monitor grant spending and progress and update Finance & Development accordingly.

Schedule

• Monday – Friday
• 9am – 5pm
• Hybrid (3 days on-site, 2 days remote)

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.

Our exceptional full-time benefits include: 

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Paid time off
• Employee referral bonus
• Career advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

The salary for this position is $150,000 per year. To be considered, interested applicants should apply directly through the posting. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. Harlem Children's Zone is an EOE.

Salary : $100 - $150,000