The Finance and Operations Manager supports the smooth management of North Star Fund’s operations, including accounting, financial reporting, and human resources. The Finance and Operations Manager works closely with the Finance and Operations Director and the Operations Manager to ensure our staff, fiscally sponsored projects, grantees, and other partners have the information and resources they need to move forward North Star Fund’s mission.
Responsibilities
Finance
- Manage accounting records, including ledgers, and reporting systems.
- Manage the organization’s compliance work, including supporting the annual audit, preparation of Form 990, and other regulatory filings.
- Support the annual budgeting process and the implementation of budgets.
- Support the coordination of North Star Fund’s Finance Committee, including preparing investment performance reports and researching prospective investment opportunities.
- Prepare and maintain financial reports for all of North Star Fund’s restricted funds (including fiscally sponsored projects, donor advised funds, program-specific grants).
Operations & HR
- Support in recruitment: drafting of job descriptions and managing application cycles.
- Support in staff training: deliver training to new staff, and ensure compliance with annual training requirements for all staff.
- Support the running of our annual review cycles.
- Act as a resource to staff about HR questions.
Skills
- Strong accounting skills, including the ability to prepare complex financial reports, including profit and loss statements, and balance sheets.
- Basic knowledge of bookkeeping process and familiarity with bookkeeping software.
- Basic knowledge and interest in US capital markets.
- Excellent communications skills, and the ability to communicate financial information to people with varying levels of comfort.
- Ability to receive and prioritize multiple requests from various stakeholders.
- Ability to learn new technology programs quickly.
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
- Strong commitment to anti-racism and social justice values and building an equitable workplace, and experience applying these values to finance, operations and/or HR roles.
- Knowledge of grassroots community organizing in NYC and/or the Hudson Valley.
North Star Fund is firmly committed to affirmative action and strongly encourages people of color, women, LGBTQ, elderly, and disabled candidates to apply.
Physical Requirements
- The job requires the ability to process and review high levels of numerical data, including reviewing ledgers and spreadsheets with thousands of fields.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary range is between $75,000 and $84,000. North Star Fund offers full benefits including employer-covered health/vision/dental, life, and disability insurance (we also cover 75% of insurance premiums for dependents), a group 403(b) retirement plan (with an employer contribution after one year), more than 25 days of paid time off (vacation, holidays, and the last week in December), and a sabbatical after five years of employment.
