Chief Financial Officer

Spring Grove Cemetery & Funeral Homes; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Spring Grove Cemetery & Funeral Homes seeks an experienced Chief Financial Officer to direct the accounting and finance functions, ensuring GAAP compliance and strategic financial leadership for the organization.

The CFO will oversee budgeting, reporting, internal controls, tax, audits, and partnerships with the CEO, board, and senior management, while mentoring the finance team and driving long-range planning.

Qualifications

• An experienced leader with a proven track record developing people.
• Forward-thinking and ethical professional with strong image.
• Strategic visionary with analytical ability and sound judgment.
• Organized self-directed team player.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Educator who mentors and shares information.
• Strong negotiator with contract experience and systems knowledge.
• Experience with Sage Intacct is helpful but not required.
• Knowledge of cemetery trusts and related laws is helpful but not required.
• General cemetery accounting knowledge is helpful but not required.
• Master’s degree and CPA or equivalent with 10+ years as CFO.
• Experience with ERP and core systems and MS 365.

Responsibilities

• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting.
• Develop and evaluate accounting personnel and team performance.
• Lead annual budgeting process and financial planning.
• Enforce policies for controls including cash, payroll, and financing.
• Manage bank relationships and cash position strategies.
• Oversee pre-need trust deposits and endowment activity.
• Refine finance department structure for efficiency.
• Provide cost analysis of services and products.
• Coordinate tax reporting for Spring Grove entities.
• Work with external auditors for timely financial audits.
• Contribute to strategic planning at senior management level.
• Advise on long-range planning, risk, profitability, and capital.
• Provide financial input on contracts and potential mergers or acquisitions.

Skills

Leadership

Financial analysis

Strategic planning

Communication

Mentoring

Negotiation

Contract experience

ERP systems

Trusting laws knowledge

Cemetery accounting knowledge

MS 365 proficiency

Customer focused

Education

Master’s degree and CPA

Tools

Sage Intacct

ERP systems

MS 365

Job description

Classification: Exempt

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / President

Summary/Objective

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for directing the accounting/financing department of the organization in accordance with sound business practices and generally accepted accounting principles.

Primary Duties

• Oversee the organization's financial function including the timely production of all monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports
• Manage, evaluate and develop accounting team personnel
• Lead and manage the annual budgeting process
• Develop, implement and enforce all policies and procedures necessary to provide appropriate controls including but not limited to cash controls, financing policies, collections and payroll.
• Optimize the handling of bank and deposit relationships and initiate appropriate strategies to manage cash position.
• Manage and optimize the pre-need trusting function including draws / deposits into the endowment
• Continually refine the finance department structure and team to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the group
• Provide and refine cost analysis of all company services and products
• Provide all appropriate and required tax reporting for all Spring Grove companies
• Work with our outside auditors to provide accurate and efficient auditing of the financial statements
• Participate in the development of the corporation's strategies, plans and programs as part of the senior management team.
• Evaluate and advise on the impact of long-range planning including risk, profitability, and capital
• Timely and accurate analysis of budgets, cash flow, financial reports and financial trends in order to assist the CEO, the Board and other senior executives in performing their responsibilities.
• Provide strategic financial input and leadership on decision making issues affecting the organization, i.e., evaluation of potential alliances acquisitions and/or mergers and pension funds and investments.
• Be an advisor from the financial perspective on any contracts into which the Corporation may enter.

Required Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Experience

• 1. An experienced leader and financial executive with a proven track record of developing people.
• 2. An energetic, forward-thinking, and creative individual with high ethical standards and an appropriate professional image.
• 3. A strategic visionary with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus.
• 4. A well organized and self-directed individual who is a team player.
• 5. An intelligent and articulate individual who can relate to people at all levels of an organization and possesses excellent communication skills.
• 6. A good educator who is trustworthy and willing to share information and serve as a mentor.
• 7. An excellent negotiator who is experienced in contracts. A decisive individual who possesses a "big picture" perspective and is well versed in systems.
• 8. Experience with Sage Intacct financials helpful but not required
• 9. Experience with trusting laws as it pertains to the Cemetery and Funeral business helpful but not required
• 10. General knowledge of Cemetery Accounting is helpful but not required
• 11. Master’s degree and CPA or equivalent combination of education and experience of at least 10 years as a CFO.
• 12. Experience with ERP and core systems as well as MS 365
• 13. Displays a “Customer First” attitude.

This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, printers and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk and/or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; stand; walk. Required to lift up to 20 pounds.

Travel

Local travel required between campuses for support.