The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is seeking a collaborative, experienced finance professional to lead the financial operations of the organization, including risk management, systems design to ensure accurate financial reporting, and safeguarding the center’s assets. The ideal candidate for the Director of Finance position is a nonprofit finance and accounting leader, who is energetic, proactive, innovative, organized, and juggles multiple priorities with ease and grace.
The Director of Finance is a leadership role responsible for overseeing all financial operations, including budgeting, financial reporting, and forecasting within the organization. With specialized experience in nonprofit GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), the Director will ensure that the organization’s financial practices are in line with statutory regulations and legislation. This position reports to the CFOO and plays a critical role in strategic decision-making for the organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial Management and Oversight
- Develop and implement financial strategies aligned with the organization’s goals.
- Oversee all fiscal reporting, ensuring compliance with nonprofit GAAP, and federal and state laws.
- Work with staff, external accountants, and auditors to ensure timely completion of annual audits.
- Clearly communicate financial insights and plans to the board of directors, leadership team, and staff as necessary.
- Collaborate with department heads to align financial management with organizational goals.
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Work with the CFOO to prepare annual budgets in coordination with department heads.
- Work with the CFOO to prepare proposal budgets in support of fundraising activities.
- Conduct monthly budget reviews and quarterly forecasting updates.
- Complete spending analysis for grant reviews and funder reports.
- Internal Controls and Compliance (15%)
- Implement and monitor internal financial controls to safeguard the organization’s assets.
- Ensure compliance with external laws and internal policies.
Accounts Payable Process Execution
Manage and execute the accounts payable process, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and compliance.
Management
- Supervise the Accounting Manager, providing leadership, guidance, and performance reviews.
- Supervise the external accounting team.
- Collaborate on key accounting tasks and projects.
Participation in efforts and projects that support Pulitzer Center culture and values.
- This may include task forces, training sessions, meetings, committees, special projects, organizational events, and any other activities that support the Pulitzer Center. Participates in the planning processes for the organization.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- A minimum of 8+ years of finance experience with 5+years in nonprofit organizations
- A minimum of 4 years experience managing finances for an organization with at least $8M in revenue.
- Special consideration is given to individuals who have CPA.
- Special consideration is given to individuals with experience with Sage Intact.
- Special consideration is given to individuals living in the Washington, D.C. area
- Experience managing a team of two more staff members.
- Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Excellent organizational, task, and time management skills.
- Experience with Project Management system Trello preferred.
Compensation for US-based employees
The salary range listed above is for US-based employees. Our benefit package includes paid time off, health care coverage (including medical/dental/vision), health savings accounts 403(b) retirement plan, transit benefit, parental leave, and Life & ADD/LTD/STD Insurance.
Compensation for non-US-based employees
All non-US salaries are adjusted based on an international conversion index, which includes estimates for comparable health benefits for benefit-eligible positions, as insurance policies are not offered for employees outside of the US. Leave benefits include the same paid time off as US-based employees, as well as parental leave, bereavement leave, and recognition of local holidays.
About Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Center is an equal-opportunity employer and seeks to forward diversity through its programs and hiring. See our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement for details. The Pulitzer Center values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, BIPOC people of color, LGBT individuals, people with disabilities, and members of ethnic minorities to apply. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
In 2006, the Pulitzer Center opened its doors with a donated desk, modest seed funding, and high ambitions: to fill the gaps in under-funded global reporting and inspire a new generation of journalists to cover the big global issues that affect us all. Since then, the Pulitzer Center has built a fantastic staff and expanded its funding and mission to support some 200 reporting projects a year on pressing global issues, sparking high-impact stories in more than 600 news outlets annually. The Pulitzer Center is behind some of the best reporting of the last decade: on conflict and peace-building, environment and climate change, migration and human trafficking, emerging science and health issues, criminal justice, and much more. The organization’s projects have won the Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Awards, Peabodys, Emmys, National Magazine Awards, and more.
The Pulitzer Center has built a network of more than 1,500 professional journalists and college students and has forged strong partnerships with leading national and international media: The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, PBS NewsHour, and The New Yorker, as well as local, regional, and specialty media outlets in all continents. The Pulitzer Center staff is global: Our headquarters are in Washington, D.C., but we have staff members across the U.S. and around the globe.
The Pulitzer Center’s unique education and outreach program brings the organization’s projects and journalists into hundreds of school and university classrooms as well as a wide range of public forums. The Pulitzer Center works closely with a network of 35-plus universities, community colleges, and HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities), bringing journalists onto campus in person and online and providing mentored reporting fellowships for students attending universities that are part of the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium. The Pulitzer Center is currently engaged in a major expansion of the organization’s educational work in the United States, as lead education partner for The New York Times on The 1619 Project. We are developing a similarly ambitious education program globally under the auspices of the Rainforest Journalism Fund and Rainforest Investigations Network.
For more information about the Pulitzer Center, visit pulitzercenter.org.