Impact-Driven Finance & Operations Director

WEPOWER; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

403b Plan

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Child Care Stipend

Cell Phone Reimbursement

Wellness Stipend

Job summary

WEPOWER in St. Louis is seeking an experienced Operations and Budget Manager to own the annual budgeting process, forecast cashflow, and coordinate financial reporting.

You will collaborate with our accounting firm and leadership to ensure timely, accurate insights and compliance. The ideal candidate will have a track record in nonprofit budgets, a passion for scalable systems, and strong project management skills to drive adoption and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• A background in operations and budget management with a track record in financial systems and budgets.
• Ability to evaluate finances, reports, and tools effectively to enable decision making.
• A passion for creating systems, processes, and policies to make the work more efficient.
• Excellent project management with the ability to prioritize and remove barriers to implementation.
• Experience rolling out user-friendly systems and driving adoption across the team.
• Deep commitment to racial equity, with self-awareness around privilege, bias, and oppression.
• Working knowledge of nonprofit grant administration, compliance, and auditing helpful, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual budgeting process in conjunction with the CEO, senior leadership team, and accounting firm.
• Work with accounting firm and development team to ensure accurate organizational cashflow forecasting to inform decision-making.
• Work closely with our outside accounting firm to compile, analyze and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner.
• Coordinate the financial audit process, working with external auditors and our accounting firm.
• Ensure multi-entity legal and tax compliance by partnering with the accounting and compliance team to ensure consistent bookkeeping and financial reporting best practices.
• Optimize systems to ensure timely processing of payroll, invoices, and reimbursements with accounting firm.
• Streamline processes for contract execution for external vendors, facilities, software, equipment, and events.
• Make recommendations for how to streamline operations based on organizational needs.
• Create and update concise, user-friendly documentation for standard operating procedures.

Skills

Operations experience

Budget management

Financial systems

Project management

Process improvement

Change management

Data-driven decision making

Job description

WEPOWER in St. Louis is seeking an experienced Operations and Budget Manager to own the annual budgeting process, forecast cashflow, and coordinate financial reporting.

You will collaborate with our accounting firm and leadership to ensure timely, accurate insights and compliance. The ideal candidate will have a track record in nonprofit budgets, a passion for scalable systems, and strong project management skills to drive adoption and continuous improvement.