Director of Finance

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Job description

Description:
As the Director of Finance at Communities Connected for Kids, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:

Opportunities to make a positive impact in the lives of children in need of support

Unique rewards that come from seeing families improve and flourish with the services you referred them to

Salary for the director position starts at $60,500 annually

Excellent benefits including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, and competitive retirement

Our Communities Connected for Kids Program provides services for children and families in the child welfare system, to ensure a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment. Based out of Port Saint Lucie, FL, this position monitors and provides oversight to ensure financial accounting, reporting, analysis, and the vouchering of client related services meet federal, state, and community-based care requirements and allow for accurate and maximized federal financial participation. This position also includes the following essential functions:

Supervises Eligibility Department, Finance and Master Trust Specialists

Reviews monthly financial statements to ensure accuracy, completeness, and fairness

Oversees financial functions of CCKids' Finance Department including accounts payable, month end closing, journal entries and DCF monthly invoices and reporting

Works closely with Independent Auditors, DCF Contract Manager and DCF Desk Reviewers providing information needed during audits and reviews and responds as needed

Serves as the agency expert in funding streams and the State approved web-based system as they relate to eligible client services within multiple DCF programs

Oversees all aspects of the Eligibility Determination Unit ensuring all work is accurate, timely, and in accordance with federal, state, and community-based care requirements

Provides technical assistance on the completion of all eligibility forms

Provides technical assistance regarding the Relative Caregiver ACCESS process

Oversees the processing and approvals of foster board, adoption subsidy, RTI stipend batches, Respite payments, group home invoices as well as any ancillary client-related payments in the State approved web-based system

Processes Independent Living/PESS requests for Aftercare services

Attends staff meetings, in-service training and other meetings, staffings, or conferences as necessary. Requires periodic travel

Ensures new staff orientation (CCKids and Case Management staff post Pre-service training ) on eligibility determination and Master Trust policies and procedures

Foster care duties include editing licensed provider services upon licensing approval, editing unlicensed "other" services i.e.: respite, bed holds, etc. to providers and/or clients, building non-family safety licensed providers and completing fiscal approval for all paid placements

Adoptions duties include creating out-of-home placement for pre-adoptive placements, closing out-of-home placement at finalization, and creating out-of-home service for adoptive child at finalization

FSFN fiscal duties include checking dispositions, checking the number record, and manually checking system input and system generated payment requests

Oracle duties include uploading and processing payments from FSFN, reconciliation of FSFN transactions to Oracle, processing weekly check runs, and month-end close processing and reporting

This list of essential functions is not intended to be exhaustive. CCKids reserves the right to modify this job description to ensure compliance with the actual job requirements

Qualifications:
EDUCATION:

Required: Bachelor's degree in general business, accounting, finance or related field from an accredited school or university.
Preferred: Master's degree in general business, accounting, finance or related field from an accredited school or university.

EXPERIENCE:

Required: A minimum of four (4) years' experience in a nonprofit organization, accounting, or finance.
Preferred: Prior experience in child welfare, Medicaid, and/or FSFN.

Company Overview:
About Communities Connected for Kids

Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned or neglected children in our care. We are responsible for the safety and well-being of each one of them. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services. If you think about it in terms of building a house, we are the general contractor of the child-welfare system. The system is the house, we are the contractor, and our network of service providers are the subcontractors we pull together to make the house strong and ready to live in.

Who We Serve

Communities Connected for Kids offers a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. We offer our services through a wide variety of approaches including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults.

In the tradition of true partnership, Communities Connected for Kids works closely with several agencies that are funded through Medicaid, substance abuse/mental health or private funds to offer a continuum of treatment services otherwise unfunded by Community Based Care dollars. These partnerships help families strengthen their capacity to care for their children or help children heal from trauma they've experienced.

Mission

Our mission is to enhance the safety, permanency and well-being of all children in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast through a community network of family support services.

Values

Communities Connected for Kids values are:

We are accountable to the children and families we serve and to the communities in which we live. We ensure services provided are:

Individualized, based on the strengths and needs of the families we serve

Respectful and culturally sensitive

Effective and accountable

Evidence based and data driven

Permanency focused

Ensure financial and human resources are managed and maximized

Our Vision

We envision a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment so all children grow to their full potential.

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