M4BL Finance Lead

M4BL FINANCE LEAD

Schedule: Full-time

Location: Remote, with minimum 25% of travel required

Reports to: M4BL Deputy Director of Finance and Operations

Salary: $88,000 - $103,000 annually, with full health benefits for employee and dependents, employer-funded retirement plan, remote work stipend, and 28 days of vacation

Application Instructions: Please submit a resume and cover letter to the BambooHR link as soon as possible.

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, 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 marginalized amongst us. In this phase of our growth, M4BL is looking for new staff members to join an expanding team that will help innovate new administrative and financial systems designed to center Black liberation and freedom.

Position Summary

The Finance Lead provides critical support for M4BL’s financial operations. As a core member of the administrative team, the Finance Lead supports the Movement for Black Lives’ work by (A) managing Accounts Payable (B) providing accounts receivable and general accounting support, (C) ensuring that all M4BL financial and administrative files and data are secure and appropriately accessible. The Finance Lead reports to the Deputy Director of Finance and Operations.

Essential Functions:

Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Grants

• Maintain accurate records and general ledger accounts
• Ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Process regular accounts payable on a weekly basis:
  • Review, assess, and enter payment information into the accounting system for approval by the Deputy Director of Finance & Operations.
• Prepare and submit C4 cost sharing invoices
• Serve as a liaison between the accounting department, staff, and vendors to ensure accurate AP documentation
  • Communicate with staff and vendors as needed in relation to accounts payable timing, payment updates, and documents needed to process payments
• Bank and Credit card reconciliation
  • Assist with monthly close process - prepare journal entries and account reconciliations of all ledger accounts
• Maintain digital financial records including invoices, W-9 forms, and supporting accounts payable documents.
• Support the disbursement of grant/community investment funds by:
  • Submitting grantee data to Fiscal Sponsor grants team for processing as needed
  • Uploading grantee data into the accounts payable system
  • Troubleshooting data errors and working to reconcile them with the appropriate M4BL staff leads
  • Tracking the timing of disbursements and ensuring accurate disbursement rolls for each grant payout
• Support accounts receivable by:
  • Updating revenue tracking tools used by the team to ensure restricted grant compliance and all grant funds are properly tracked
  • Pulling grant expenses for and preparing grant reports
  • Attending team meetings related to revenue tracking
  • Maintaining communication with the Resource Development and accounting teams to ensure documentation of pledges and funds received
• Support ongoing improvements of M4BL’s accounts payable and accounts receivable systems

Technology, Organization, and Compliance

• Provide communications support via note-taking and documentation of finance meetings and team retreats.
• 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.
• Help maintain a list of current vendors and solutions providers
• Communicate with staff regarding program and policy updates as needed and requested by the Director of Finance and Operations.

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.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Personal alignment with the M4BL’s vision and values
• Skilled at time management and project coordination
• Skilled at recognizing challenges, identifying potential solutions, and communicating challenges and solutions with multiple team members
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Grounded and flexible with a high degree of integrity, transparency, and collaborative ability
• Able to pay close and consistent attention to details
• Ability to work on a virtual fast paced team and juggle multiple projects at once while proactively communicating
• Reliability, flexibility, and follow-up
• Commitment to relationship building, team building, and strategic action
• Work well independently and on a remote team
• Openly and consistently receive and give feedback
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities, and meet daily, weekly, and monthly deadlines
• High degree of integrity and ability to maintain sensitive and confidential data
• Skilled at trouble-shooting software issues and working with providers to implement solutions

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Prior experience working with Social Justice Movement organizations
• General Accounting background
• Experience in nonprofit management
• Two+ years of experience managing accounts payable in a nonprofit setting.
• Experience with budget and accounting software such as Quickbooks, Questica, Netsuite etc

Equal Opportunity Workplace

The Movement for Black Lives in partnership with its fiscal sponsor the Common Counsel Foundation 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.