**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY**The Finance Manager is responsible for managing the financial planning and forecasting process, strategic planning and delivering insight through management reporting and analysis ensuring that this evolves to meet the needs of the business.This position provides leverage and support to the Chief Finance Officer to holistically monitor the P&L, implement initiatives and effectively meet business objectives.**QUALIFICATIONS**- Must be a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)- Must have at least 7 years general accounting or record to report experience with strong financial, accounting and reporting skills in a shared services environment.- Must have at least 3 years People Management experience.**KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & FINANCIAL SKILLS**- Excellent analytical and organizational skills with the capacity to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines and competing priorities;- Strong knowledge and experience with accounting database report writing tools. Effective financial modeling and budgeting skills utilizing advanced Excel techniques;- Experience with business intelligence tools and various ERP systems is highly desirable.- Corporate budgeting and forecasting experience;- Superior analytical, problem-structuring, and problem-solving skills; experience synthesizing data into information and presenting concise analyses- Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with staff at all levels and tailor communication to varied audiences;- Drive to consistently display a high level of professionalism and customer service;- Ability to identify trends and best practices and develop networking opportunities to further solutions;- Management and leadership abilities and knowledge of accounting principles and non-profit issues and resources.- Professional integrity, initiative, dependability, and commitment to excellence;- Experience with government grants and contracts strongly preferred;- Ability to work independently in meeting objectives;- Strong PC skills, particularly experience with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, accounting database systems financial report writing packages, and budget/forecast tools;- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, procedures, and internal controls.**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**- REPORTING_- To provide timely, useful, and reliable financial performance data in support of strategic and operational decisions. This will be measured by the timeliness and quality of financial reports provided to budget holders.- Providing timely financial data and analysis to meet dynamic decision support requests is essential to expand operations. This will be measured by the quality and timeliness of reports provided.- Produce enhanced standard financial statements and other agency reporting in support of budget holders. This includes a monthly budget to actual reports with variance analysis and other required standard reports. This includes responding to ad-hoc reporting and financial analysis requests from the MANCOM and other clients. Initiate the development of the monthly and quarterly Leadership Team reporting package, Board financial reports, and other financial presentations for review by the Chief Finance Officer. May be asked to facilitate finance presentations as required. This includes updating trend analysis (reports, charts, graphs) for various purposes and audiences (Senior Finance staff, MANCOM, Board).- Provide support to the Chief Finance Officer for annual audit and coordinate in the preparation of required financial reports.- Perform analysis of operational activities, including historical, current, and projected revenue and expense, cash flow, variances, and key financial data, including indirect cost and fringe benefit rates as well as the efficiency ratio.- Perform scenario and financial modeling, and sensitivity analysis to be used to inform strategic decisions and project financial impact of a policy or other changes (e.g. NICRA methodology change, treatment of bid and proposal costs, etc.)- With an objective of continuous improvement balanced with clarity and consistency, develop and refine reporting formats to be as concise and user-friendly as possible. Identify and implement an enhanced process for consolidating variance analysis for review by budget holders and the MANCOM.- Responsibility for implementation of and training on financial reporting systems.- PLANNING AND ANALYSIS_- Develop, implement and maintain an effective planning and analysis capability that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of the Company's portfolio of businesses.- Routinely communicate business unit and company consolidated financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics. Suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications. Coordinat
