Manager, Financial Strategy & Compliance

Join United Way for Southeastern Michigan as the Manager of Financial Strategy & Compliance and take your non-profit finance career to the next level! This role offers a unique opportunity to lead grant accounting initiatives while ensuring compliance with GAAP standards. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team of professionals, leveraging your accounting expertise and excel proficiency, particularly in pivot tables, to solve complex financial problems that impact our community. With the flexibility to work from home, you can maintain a healthy work-life balance while contributing to meaningful change in Detroit, MI. The expected pay for this exciting position is $70,000 per year, reflecting our commitment to excellence and people-first culture.

You can enjoy great benefits such as Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, Competitive Salary, Paid Time Off, 403B, Pet insurance, Critical illness, Organization paid disability STD & LTD, and free telehealth program. Don't miss this chance to be part of a forward-thinking organization that values diversity, equity, and inclusion at its core!

Who are we? An Introduction

What is it like to work united? Here at United Way for Southeastern Michigan our employees combine their individual strengths to develop solutions to some of our region's toughest challenges alongside our donors, advocates, volunteers and partners. Join our team as we work collaboratively to impact the communities within southeastern Michigan! For more than 100 years, we've responded to the community's most pressing challenges around children and family, health and the community. Honored with a symbolic or actual "torch drive" each year, our annual campaign has brought thousands of companies and individuals together for a common cause: supporting our Southeastern Michigan communities.

What it's like to be a Manager, Financial Strategy & Compliance at Manager, Financial Strategy & Compliance

As the Manager, Financial Strategy & Compliance at United Way for Southeastern Michigan, you will play a pivotal role in assisting the Director in various collaborative efforts and special projects. This position involves being part of a dynamic cross-functional team where your expertise in finance and accounting will shine. You will be responsible for tracking and guiding items through the procurement process, ensuring that all transactions adhere to defined policies and compliance standards. Your attention to detail and problem-solving skills will be crucial in maintaining financial integrity and operational excellence.

By leveraging your knowledge of grant accounting and GAAP, you will contribute significantly to the organization's mission of making a positive impact in the community.

Requirements for this Manager, Financial Strategy & Compliance job

To excel as the Manager, Financial Strategy & Compliance at United Way for Southeastern Michigan, you must possess a strong skill set that blends technical expertise with exceptional communication abilities. A thorough understanding of financial processes is essential, including tracking the full financial picture of key programs, encompassing incoming revenue, procurement, and payables. You will need to effectively attend collaboration meetings with external stakeholders, articulating detailed procurement processes and requirements. Proficiency in Excel is crucial, especially with functions like Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP, and SUMIFS, as you will regularly update spreadsheets and perform complex calculations. Additionally, strong organizational skills will help you monitor open contracts, provide timely status updates, and ensure procurement requests are processed efficiently.

The ability to work collaboratively with various teams, including the Contracts Manager, will support vital contract management process improvements such as crafting a fiduciary guidebook and enhancing supplier diversity initiatives.

Knowledge and skills required for the position are:

• Understand and track the full financial picture of key programs (i.e. incoming revenue and
• cash
• procurement and payables)
• o Attend weekly
• monthly
• and/or quarterly collaboration meetings with external stakeholders
• to understand specific program requirements
• o Collaborate with external stakeholders on status of contracts
• spend downs
• or other
• financial/compliance items as needed
• o Fully understand and be able to articulate UWSEM procurement process and procedures to
• internal and external stakeholders as needed
• o Track procurement requests for these programs to ensure requests are processed
• appropriately and timely
• o Update various spreadsheets and calculations using multiple Excel functions
• including but not
• limited to Pivot Tables
• xlookup and sumifs
• o Monitor open contracts and provide status updates related to spend-down and potential
• renewals needed
• o Provide clear and meaningful status updates to the Director
• Financial Strategy & Compliance
• and to external stakeholders as needed
• o Work in conjunction with the Contracts Manager and provide back up as needed
• o Support the contract management process improvement
• o initiatives
• such as fiduciary guidebook
• supplier diversity program
• and automated routing
• systems

Your next step

So, what do you think? If you can meet these requirements and perform this job as described above, we would be happy to have you as part of our team!

Salary : $70,000