Senior Finance & Grants Manager

The Just Trust; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Just Trust seeks a Senior Finance & Grants Manager to lead the finance team’s grant accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting. This role emphasizes nonprofit fund accounting, compliance, and strategic financial management to support durable justice reforms across the country.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with hands-on financial leadership and a proactive approach to grant oversight within a nationally focused philanthropy.

Qualifications

• Experience with nonprofit financial accounting and fund accounting.
• Strong grant accounting and grant compliance experience.
• Excellent analytical, budgeting, and financial planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial compliance and internal financial reporting for The Just Trust.
• Manage budgeting processes and financial planning for programs and grants.
• Lead grant accounting, grant compliance, and operational grant execution.

Skills

Nonprofit finance

Grant accounting

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Analytical thinking

Job description

About The Just Trust
The Just Trust is a philanthropic intermediary that works to build the public, political and financial will needed to protect and advance durable reforms to the justice system – state by state and across the country.

By mobilizing resources and amplifying the work of nonprofit organizations, policy experts, and advocates, we collaborate across political lines to catalyze public safety and more just outcomes within the justice system. Our strategic investments include innovation and transformative projects to ensure bold ideas for transformation drive systemic change. Learn more .

Mission + Vision
Our mission at The Just Trust is to ensure that the next chapter of justice reform in America is nimble, adaptable, well-funded, and able to make progress through the pendulum of politics and culture. By connecting diverse groups of donors with smart investments at the local, state and national level, we can help steward a generations-long effort for justice and safety into the lasting solutions communities want and deserve.

TJT’s vision is to transform the justice system into a fair and just engine that fosters public safety for all because we envision safe, thriving communities in every corner of the country, strengthened by the existence of a much smaller, more humane justice system that prevents crime, centers safety, and fosters real accountability, rehabilitation, and healing.

The Opportunity
The Senior Finance & Grants Manager (SFGM) is a critical leader within the finance team at The Just Trust, responsible for overseeing financial compliance, internal financial reporting, financial management, and budgeting processes. This position requires extensive expertise in nonprofit financial accounting, including fund accounting, and the ability to manage high-level financial strategy, financial reporting, grant accounting, grant compliance, and grant operational execution. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, proactive, and adept at balancing big-picture financial planning and grants compliance with hands-on financial management and grant oversight.