Company Description
About the Organization
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 275 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.
Our mission: Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources, and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.
About Our Values:
- Focus on Excellent Results: Winning for Children and Families – Denying people of color and people experiencing economic hardship excellent outcomes from public organizations is longstanding and only perpetuates inter-generational racism and poverty. We pursue excellence at a world-class level because our children and families deserve nothing less. We focus on excellent results, generated by excellent daily action because intentions alone will not enable our children to lead fulfilling lives.
- Courageous Action: We do Hard Things All day, Every Day – Our work is centered on reversing the impact of generational racism and poverty on children of color from low-income families. This work is inherently challenging and will never be easy. Our mission requires that, through concerted action, we embrace, confront, and overcome adversity.
- Resilient Solutions Focus: Find a Way or Make One – We doggedly pursue solutions to every problem we confront. For every problem, we find or invent a solution. We are smart, optimistic, and thoughtful in crafting solutions, but also timely, recognizing that our children only have one life to live. We embrace a growth mindset, believing that simply because we have not achieved our ultimate aims today does not mean that we cannot tomorrow. We chase the continuous improvement of ourselves, our interpersonal relationships, our teams, and our organization.
Job Description
About The Position
The KIPP Foundation is looking for a Director, Finance Systems and Reporting who will be responsible for the KIPP Foundation’s financial systems including implementation and maintenance and all internal and external reporting. The Director, Finance Systems and Reporting will be remote and report to the Vice President of Financial Planning and Support. This position will work closely with KIPP regions and local finance leads and KIPP Foundation senior leaders.
Responsibilities
Financial Planning and Budgeting
Support the annual financial planning and budgeting process and ensure it is strategic, reflects organizational priorities and improves in terms of efficiency and end user experience over time
Work with Financial Planning leadership to ensure stakeholders have all information required to effectively plan
Explore options to make tools utilized during the annual planning and budgeting process the most efficient and end user friendly
Support a strong position control
Ensure accurate active positions and vacancies are maintained for the Foundation
Closely partner with Payroll, Talent Acquisitions, Compensation and Benefits, Data and Technology and Employee Information System functional leaders
Explore ERP system functionality to support position control maintenance and projections for annual planning and budgeting cycles
Financial Systems
Ensure the finance team is best utilizing existing systems and consistently exploring options to improve platform and process
Work to maximize existing systems in the interim, prioritize implementing access to real time budget to actuals reporting
Explore improved system options such as an integrated ERP system
Support any system adoption
Financial Reporting
Ensure the Finance team produces high quality reporting and analysis that assists budget managers and support staff in understanding the impact of monthly and year-to-date budget to actuals, and other key financial performance indicators, including:
Provide financial results by the 15th business day of the following month
Maximize automation
Implementing access to real time budget to actuals reporting
Strategically lead the creation and update of accurate and holistic rolling forecasts in partnership with functional area leaders to ensure team budgets will meet annual targets
Optimize methodology for forecasting
Partner with the Finance Grants Team to ensure 99% accuracy of revenue projections around all funding streams
Maintain qualitative notes regarding team plans to enrich predictions
Continuously improve forecast methodology and approach including leveraging technology options
Network Support
Provide support to regions to improve accuracy and efficiency of local processes and reporting
Provide support services, guidance and templates to automate certain interim reporting tasks such as cash reconciliation, financial statement drafts, authorizer reporting, additional accounting tables for internal or Board use
Serve as a leader in the development of mathematical, analytical, statistical constructs and models to understand the impact of operating across existing and new regions
Provide support in utilizing demographic demand models in partnership with the Growth and Operation Teams, potentially provide semi-annual analysis for existing schools, provide ad-hoc demand reports to regions considering growth and/or site acquisition
Pressure test all financial projection models owned by existing and potential regions
Manage accountability of financial model requirements for all regions benefiting from emergency loans or support in the future
Stakeholder Experience & Customer Service
The Finance Team exists to serve our stakeholders on Foundation program teams and in our regions.
Serve as a model of the finance customer service tenets and lead the Financial Planning & Support team to set a high standard for end user experience across financial manager and budget owners
Ensure Financial Planning and Support assigned Zendesk tickets are responded to on or before the two business day deadline with a high level of customer service.
Qualifications
Skills
Mission & Student Focus: Expresses high expectations for all students and expresses belief in their potential to complete college and succeed in life. Keeps commitments made to others – especially students; desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s values (Focus on Excellent Results, Courageous Action, and Resilient Solutions Focus)
Achievement Orientation: infuses clarity in accountability and goals, ensuring measures of success are tied to student and organizational outcomes; Eliminates unnecessary bureaucracy/inefficiencies in pursuit of outcomes; can solve problems and make decisions collaboratively with others in pursuit of student outcomes;
Process & Project Management: Can effectively manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders to deadlines while balancing multiple short- and long-term projects; highly organized and disciplined and can take an innovative approach to translating strategy into priorities and project plans, even in unstructured spaces; continually applies strong attention to detail in the execution and follow through of all projects; constantly looks for ways to improve and to scale learning quickly.
Industry and Financial Acumen: Knowledge of public education finance and the willingness to learn other states education finance systems; Skill in creating, maintaining, tracking, and monitoring budgets and developing projection costs associated with operating expenses
Impact & Influence and Stakeholder Management: Adapts personal leadership style/approach to influence others, stimulating others to act and accomplish goals, even when no direct reporting relationship exists. Gains the trust of key stakeholders by active listening and seeking to understand their views/needs; can effectively share complex information, translate for end users, and maintain a supportive and helpful tone; responds promptly to concerns and ensures that stakeholders are aware of actions being taken and explains the rationale for decisions and/or outcomes to the stakeholder;
Critical Thinking and Strong Judgement: Ability to problem solve and to navigate and lead through complexity; effectively leverages data effectively for strategic decision-making and driving improvement; can make courageous yet necessary decisions in the interest of students and families with experience working with and in the interests of communities of color; can maintain exemplary integrity, discretion, and cultural competence while working with staff and with confidential/sensitive information.
Cultural Competence & Commitment to Equity: A proactive cultural leader and team player who thrives on collaboration and learning; examines the impact of his/her identities, biases, assumptions, and behaviors on his/her power and privilege, interactions with others, work and leadership in the organization; able to recognize, immediately respond, and consistently remedy interpersonal and systemic bias and inequities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree in relevant field preferred
At least 3 years of experience in budget development and management, accounting systems, data analytics, and/or financial reporting
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and Enterprise Resource Planning Software
Additional Information
Work Conditions
Full-time, Exempt position
Travel requirements: Able to travel up to 10% of the time with increased travel during the busiest parts of the year.
Location
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also offers the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation office is in NYC and Chicago.
Compensation and Benefits.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $120,000-$145,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
100% paid parental leave
100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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