Finance & Operations Lead

Finance & Operations Lead

Schedule: Full time/Permanent

Location: Remote, with 25-30% required travel

Reports to: Finance Manager

Salary: $88K - $103K, with full health benefits for employee and dependents, employer-funded retirement plan, remote work stipend, and flexible time off

Application Instructions/Deadline: Please submit a resume and cover letter to Bamboo. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is an ecosystem of organizations and individuals creating a shared vision and strategy to win rights, control and resources for Black people. Building on the legacy and strategies of past movements, the Movement for Black Lives has created a broad political home for Black organizers, activists, and their organizations. Our ecosystem is held together by politics of abolition, anti-capitalism and radical Black Queer Feminisms, and a value system that fights for the most marginalized amongst us.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Finance & Operations Lead provides critical support for M4BL’s financial and operational team. As a core member of the administrative team, the Finance & Operations Lead will support the Movement for Black Lives’ work by (A) Managing Accounts Payable and Grants Administration (B) Providing accounts receivable and general accounting support, (C) ensuring that all M4BL financial and administrative files and data are secure and appropriately accessible. (D) Coordinate the consultant and vendor contracts system, (E) Assist with the event planning and execution.  The Finance & Operations Lead reports to the Finance Manager and directly supports the overall finance and operational rhythm of business for M4BL.

Will require travel and work on occasional weekends and evenings, as determined.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Accounts Payable

• Serve as primary liaison between the accounting department, staff, and vendors to ensure accurate AP documentation
• Communicate with staff and vendors as needed on the accounts payable schedule, payment updates, and materials needed to process payments
• Review payment requests (i.e vendor invoices, staff reimbursements, grant awards) and submit through the accounts payable system for approval and processing

Grants Management:

• Develop and implement compliant and culturally appropriate systems, processes, and tools to better support the work of M4BL’s grantmaking program and its ability to share information - both internally and externally
• Conduct quarterly grantmaking reconciliations
• Tracking disbursements to ensuring accurate distribution for each grant award payout
• Serve as primary liaison on grantmaking with grantees, program staff, and finance team

Contract Management

• Maintain files of documents submitted by grantees, vendors, consultants, and contractors by aggregating them in our CRM, and/or other cloud-based filing systems as appropriate
• Negotiate, track and oversee all contracts and agreements with external vendors and contractor

Event Planning

• Support creation of policies, procedures and tools as it relates to event planning.
• Work in partnership with other departments in execution of their team advances.
• Maintain M4BL’s travel platform and act as the primary point of contact.

Note: The Movement for Black Lives is committed to responding flexibly to changing circumstances and priorities which means that the expectations of every position are dynamic. This description reflects the assignment of essential functions, but does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in accounting, finance, and/or business operations
• Proficiency using Google Sheets/Excel for financial analysis
• Ability to build consensus and relationships among various levels of stakeholders
• Skilled at time management and project coordination using digital tools
• Grounded and flexible with a high degree of integrity, transparency, and collaborative ability
• Consistent attention to details and accuracy
• Ability to work on a virtual team, in particular, and juggle multiple projects at once while proactively communicating within a virtual environment
• Prior experience working with Social Justice Movement organizations preferred
• Strong personal alignment with M4BL’s Ideological pillars:
  • Anti-capitalism
  • Black Queer Feminism
  • Abolition

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Passion for M4BL’s mission in support of Black liberation and joyful Black life;
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills across diverse populations and partnerships;
• The ability to thrive in a collaborative, dynamic, fast-paced work environment where priorities are often evolving to adapt to the movement’s needs and emergent opportunities;

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY WORKPLACE

The Movement for Black Lives in partnership with The Bayard Project is proud to be an equal employment workplace. We welcome and encourage job applicants who are motivated to work with us in addressing social injustice and those who have personal experience with injustice. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on any of the follow factors; race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and/ or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition (genetic characteristics, cancer or a record or history of cancer), military or veteran status, national origin, ancestry, disability (mental and physical including HIV/AIDS, cancer, and genetic characteristics), and genetic information.