Finance ManagerChildren's Health Defense

CHD Overview:                          

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is a litigation advocacy organization dedicated to protecting child health, ending the epidemic of children’s chronic health conditions by eliminating harmful environmental exposures, holding those responsible accountable, and establishing safeguards. Guided by science, we are tackling big pharma, holding big industry accountable at an unprecedented scale, and establishing safeguards to make a safer environment for children. We share our discoveries about harmful environmental exposures with the public and nurture a culture of leadership in communities. Our programs and resources cultivate science literacy and build a foundation of collaborative problem-solving among our next generation of leaders, scientists, physicians, citizens, and stewards. Working both nationally and internationally, our collaborative approach engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners.  

Department Overview:

The Department of Finance is responsible for planning, managing, and controlling financial resources, to include managing records and information related to business finances and accounting. In addition, the department is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient financial management and accounting activities to support organizational goals. The department also performs the necessary financial controls to support all business activities through financial insight and analysis to drive organizational performance.

Position Overview: 

The Finance Manager is responsible for assisting the Controller in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the Organization’s financial activity on a continuous basis.  Additionally, this position is responsible for adhering to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and ensuring the financial data is timely reconciled and reviewed. This includes adherence to, and assisting in development of, the department’s policies and procedures that supports the underlying internal control structure.

• Ensures timely approval of payment of vendors and ensures sufficient documentation to support vendor payments in accordance with Organization policies and procedures

• Ensures timely posting of cash receipts and disbursements to the general ledger

• Assists Controller in documenting business processes and implementing of internal controls

• Assists Controller in the development of internal financial reports for leadership and/or the board, including developing dashboards and key performance indicators

• Reviews and approves monthly bank reconciliations

• Reviews and approves ACH/wire payments, and prepares/signs manual checks 

• Reviews and approves recurring and nonrecurring journal entries

• Assists Controller with analyzing, reconciling, and recording monthly investment activity

• Ensures payroll is recorded timely, and reconciled on a monthly basis

• Provides financial data and ad-hoc reports to Controller, CFO and/or senior management as needed

• Assists Controller in assigning user roles with various finance related software

• Assists Controller with monthly and year-end closing process and improving timeliness of these processes.

• Prepares journal entries, schedules and performs various other monthly reconciliations. Also, reviews accounting work of Staff Accountants on monthly basis as needed

• Provides training and assistance to Organization end-users of financial-related software and programs

• Prepares various schedules and provides assistance for annual audit and federal form 990 preparation

• Ensures compliance with all federal, state, local laws and regulations related to payroll tax, sales tax, and other tax issues

• Ensures annual tax filings such as 1099-NEC are submitted timely

• Plans and coordinates records retention policy for finance office

• Attend meetings and events as required

• Respond to calls, emails and text communications in a timely manner

• Supervisory Duties:

  • Recruits, interviews, hires and trains new staff in the department

  • Oversees the daily workflow of the department

  • Develops staff, provide constructive and timely performance evaluations and regular feedback to direct reports

  • Handles performance corrections as needed in accordance with company policy

• All other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

• Minimum of 3-5 years of accounting experience, preferably 501c3 private non-profit experience. 

• 2 or more years of previous supervisory experience

DESIRED: 

• Certified Public Accountant and/or Master’s Degree in business related field preferred

• Multi-state payroll tax experience and business licensing requirements experience

• Involvement in medical freedom movement