Vice President of Finance

Job Details

Job Location
Corporate and Mailing - Orlando, FL

Position Type
Full Time

Education Level
Graduate Degree

Travel Percentage
Negligible

Job Category
Executive Level

Description

Lighthouse Central Florida is a mission-driven, values-based organization providing an optimal blend of rehabilitation training services and real-world applications to help individuals of all ages, who live with any degree of vision loss to adjust to their reality with grace and confidence so they can remain active, productive members of our community.

We are seeking a Vice President of Finance responsible for developing Lighthouse's financial management strategy and developing the organization's strategic goals. The Vice President of Finance, with the COO and CEO, sets organizational financial objectives, policies, and procedures, models and champions all core values, and supports the organization's mission. This is an outstanding opportunity for a finance professional with a proven track record of creative problem-solving and change management to join a growth-focused, mission-driven organization.

Essential Job Requirements:

• Assure that all financial procedures, practices, & records are in full compliance with applicable regulations, laws, and best practices, including generally accepted auditing standards and accounting principles
• Oversee the financial operations of Lighthouse Central Florida and all subsidiary companies.
• Oversee the accurate, complete, and timely submission of required financial reports, projections, short and long-term forecasts, quotations, budgets, and analysis.
• Maintain, develop, and implement systems and management tools that support programs and operations of the organization and contribute to improved efficiency, cost, quality, and productivity.
• Identify and analyze trends that are reflective of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Utilize forward-looking models and activity-based analysis to provide financial insight into the organization's plans and operating budgets.
• Manage all financial accounts, including payables, receivables, overhead, and assets.
• Monitor cash balances and create cash forecasts.
• Maintain outstanding banking relationships and strategic alliances with vendors and business partners.
• Provide responsible financial counsel to the President/CEO, the Executive Vice President/COO, the Board Treasurer, the Finance Committee, and the Board.
• Acquire and maintain a skilled staff and implement operational best practices to reduce administrative overhead while meeting functional obligations.
• Ensure staff members receive timely and appropriate training and development.
• Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach: assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, and monitor and evaluate results.
• Review performance against budgets, operational plans, contract obligations, and funding agreements
• Work with CEO and COO to develop organizational budgets.
• Consult with the CEO and COO regarding all significant financial matters.
• Construct, monitor, and maintain adequate internal controls to ensure assets' safeguarding and accuracy of financial statements.
• Proactively identify and address financial risks and opportunities for the organization.
• Ensure compliance with financial and contract reporting requirements for private or public funding, licensing, or regulatory agencies.
• Prepare for, coordinate, and attend meetings of the Board Finance Committee.
• Serve as the vital point of contact for external auditors; Manage preparation and support of all external audits
• Periodically audit receipts and disbursements, ensure correct account distribution, and ensure supporting documentation is accurate and in order.
• Oversee preparation of special cost studies, projections, and financial models as required.
• Provide strategic guidance around capital financing options to support company growth.
• Monitor all open legal issues involving the organization and the industry's legal matters.
• Understand revenue and cost drivers and define appropriate reports for tracking.
• Direct the preparation of information requested or required for compliance, review, and approve all reporting information.
• Act as primary contact with counsel and outside government agencies.
• Select and coordinate the use of insurance brokers, insurance carriers, pension administrators, labor counsel, and other related consultants.
• Prepare budgets for grants and projects.
• Manage any third parties to which accounting functions have been outsourced.
• Perform additional duties as requested by the COO and CEO.

Qualifications

Education:

• Minimum education level: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.

License and Certification:

• CMA and CPA preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in financial management.
• Non-profit experience is preferred.

Demonstrated Knowledge and Skills:

• Thorough understanding of non-profit accounting, financial management, and reporting standards.
• Strong financial and accounting background, including understanding profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow management, and general financial planning and budgeting.
• Broad-based business knowledge, including financial management, risk management, and forecasting.
• Proven track record of success facilitating progressive organizational change and development within a growing organization.
• Knowledge of accounting systems. ERP experience preferred. Implementation of new ERP system a plus.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, confidence, and executive presence - the ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers.
• Highest standards of ethics and integrity
• Detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with fluctuating priorities and deadlines.
• Self-reliant and results-oriented with excellent analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact strategic and tactical financial initiatives.
• Proven negotiation skills.
• Excellent word processing and database management skills.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and financial management software.
• Capable of working with a variety of personalities and leadership styles.
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive matters.
• Ability to understand new issues quickly and make wise decisions.
• Professional maturity and judgment.
• Ability to work as an influential team member.
• Ability to work under pressure, plan personal workload effectively and delegate.

Physical Demands:

• Office environment with frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling items, sometimes up to 50 lbs.
• Extended periods at a keyboard or workstation.
• Extended listening periods, requiring the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
• Frequently listening and talking with the staff, visitors, or others.
• Frequent typing.
• Infrequent periods of prolonged standing.
• Frequent twisting or bending at the waist, reaching overhead, stooping, kneeling, bending, and crouching.

For employees living with visual impairments, you must provide documentation from a physician of legal blindness. Legal blindness is defined as: "Central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses OR whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees." These conditions are based on the federal Javits-Wagner-O'Day work program for legally blind individuals.

The employment policy of Lighthouse Central Florida and Lighthouse Works is to provide equal opportunity to all persons. Our company, therefore, has committed to equal employment opportunity through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. Lighthouse Central Florida and Lighthouse Works will recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified individuals in all job titles and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, and veteran status, or disability.

All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and primary duties have been included. Requirements, skills, and abilities have been determined to be the minimal standards required to perform the positions successfully. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and conditions may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

The Americans with Disabilities Act may modify requirements to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made that may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or impose undue hardships on the organization.