Chief Financial Officer

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is the nation’s first and largest organization dedicated to serving the 2.5 million veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from their first day home to the rest of their lives. IAVA strives to build an empowered generation of veterans through programs in four key impact areas: Health, Education, Employment and Community.

• Health - IAVA makes it a priority to ensure that both mental and physical health needs are being effectively addressed in our community, and has provided support to over 20,000 returning veterans nationwide.
• Education - With nearly a million new veterans headed back to school under the New GI Bill, IAVA has provided over 500,000 with the tools and support needed to make informed decisions about their education.
• Employment - No veteran should come home from Iraq or Afghanistan to an unemployment check. To fight shockingly high joblessness rates, IAVA’s Combat to Career initiative helped over 270,000 veterans in their transition to civilian careers in 2011.
• Community - Less than 1% of the country served in Iraq and Afghanistan – a stark contrast to the 12% that served during WWII. Building community, both online and on the ground, is a critical factor in fulfilling IAVA’s mission, which means bridging geographical divides to create a united, supported and proud movement of new veterans

IAVA is seeking a motivated and experienced financial manager to become its first Chief Financial Officer. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CFO is responsible for all financial activities for IAVA, including financial strategy, management, and reporting, budget creation and management, business development and grants management, as well as operational activities. The CFO will serve as an integral member of the Executive team, working with IAVA’s Senior Leadership and Board of Directors to support the development and implementation of long-range planning and daily operational goals and objectives,including the growth and expansion of IAVA’s operational and programmatic activities.

The CFO will directly manage a team of three to five finance and operations professionals.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSFINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:

• Coordinate the budgeting process and timeline, working with the CEO and senior staff to develop the organization’s annual budget, with appropriate income goals and expense limitations for restricted and unrestricted activities;
• Oversee all annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly budget reporting, including the development of customized reports as needed;
• Lead budget analysis and formulation, scenario planning, forecasting, cash management, and capital planning;
• Ensure that relevant financial data is presented in a timely manner to the CEO,senior staff and Board of Directors;
• Serve as key staff person on Board Finance Committee and responsible forregular communication with Finance Chair;
• Seek and capitalize on business development opportunities including IAVA’s conceptualized “VetLab” collaborative office space;
• Support creation and management of all programmatic budgets; working with Chief Program Officer to facilitate comparison between actual and projected expenses;
• Proactively manage changes to budget based on new or changing programmatic commitments;
• Oversee business policies and accounting practices;
• Oversee annual audit process in conjunction with external auditors.

OPERATIONS

• Oversee risk management and legal activities: letters of agreement, contracts,leases, and other legal documents;
• Procurement, monitoring and management of all business insurance policies;
• Oversee administrative functions for all IAVA offices nationwide, ensuring smooth daily operations;
• Manage growth of IAVA offices into additional cities;
• With Senior Management, identify, suggest, implement and support process and operational improvement and innovations;
• General oversight of office operations to ensure maximum efficiency;
• Work with outsourced IT vendor to ensure the ongoing maintenance and updating of information systems and infrastructure, including all hardware, and software;
• Ensure technological capabilities align with organizational needs and priorities.

Start Date: Immediate

Application Deadline: Rolling

Salary and Benefits: Salary is commensurate with experience. IAVA provides comprehensive health and dental coverage, access to vision benefits, a Flexible Spending Account, Transportation Savings Account and a 403(b) retirement plan, in addition to thirty Paid Time Off days per year.

To Apply : Please apply here http://iava.org/careers/.Include a cover letter that concisely explains how your experience could be applied to IAVA. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. No phone calls, please.

IAVA is an equal opportunity employer; VETERANS OF THE CONFLICTS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

To learn more about IAVA’s history, mission and model, click here.