Finance Systems Manager

Finance Systems Manager

The Finance Systems Manager is responsible for the strategy, administration, and continuous improvement of the organization's financial systems. Serving as the primary liaison between Finance and IT, this role ensures that financial applications (accounting, purchasing-to-payment, and budgeting / forecasting systems) effectively support the organization's mission and meet the needs of the Accounting, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams.

The Finance Systems Manager is principally responsible for the financial systems on behalf of the Finance function, leading process design, functional configuration, reporting, and user training / support, while partnering closely with IT to ensure technical reliability, security, and integration across the full suite.

Key Responsibilities include :

• Serve as the primary business owner for financial applications, ensuring they align with finance processes, compliance requirements, accounting standards, organizational policies, and evolving business needs.
• Maintain the chart of accounts, financial data mapping to meet different user groups' needs, and finance system structures (e.g. for user permissions, purchasing & payment approval rules, etc.).
• Lead efforts to optimize finance workflows (purchasing, expense management, AP, approvals, budgeting, reporting).
• Translate objectives and requirements from the finance teams, and create / maintain sufficient documentation, to enable IT to complete technical configuration of financial systems (e.g. the necessary workflows, scripts, user roles, and integrations).
• Lead the process to surface and prioritize system enhancements, including collecting stakeholder input across and outside of the finance function, making recommendations, and managing communications and implications after decisions are made.
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across financial systems through rigorous, systematic data review and partnership with IT on maintenance of system integrations.

Training & Support includes :

Reporting & Analytics includes :

Additional collaboration with IT includes :

Continuous Improvement includes :

Key Competencies include :

Required qualifications include :

Preferred qualifications include :

This is a hybrid role. At this time, we typically work from the office 2 days per week and work remotely 3 days per week. Therefore, this role requires teammates to live within commuting distance of one of the three cities within which we work : Newark, NJ, Camden, NJ, or Miami, FL.

KIPP Team & Family offers a market-competitive salary ranging from $85,000-$105,000. Salary ranges at KIPP are set based upon the role level and function using benchmarks in the education and non-profit sector and allow for growth within the role. Individual compensation within this range will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to : relevant professional experience and qualifications; education, skills and training; and market conditions.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package including, but not limited to, the following :

Our organization is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our organization will make a reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the organization. No questions on this application are asked for any unlawful purpose.