Job Description
Salary Range
$200,000-$225,000 annually
Workdays
Monday -Friday
Work Hours
8:00 am- 4:30 pm
About St. Anthony's Located in the heart of the Tenderloin, St. Anthony Foundation is one of the largest, primarily privately funded social service providers in San Francisco and a place of great love. We offer safety net, health care, and employment services informed by evidence-based best practices for people experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction. Our goal is to build trust over time with individuals and to give each person the tools and opportunity to sustainably exit homelessness. We offer a welcoming healing community, a pathway to stability, and a model for broader change.
St. Anthony's serves an average of 1,600 meals daily, 14,000 guests per year across all programs and operates with a total expense budget of $36.5 million annually. Our expanding services focus on care integration, offering men, women and children opportunities for wrap around services leading to stability with respect and dignity.
As a well-known institution that has served San Francisco's poor for more than 70 years, St. Anthony's draws on its history and experience to contribute to the city-wide conversation on poverty and homelessness.
The ideal candidate must demonstrate a personal commitment to serve people who are poor, disadvantaged, and outcast, should respect and honor the dignity of all people, and take pride in leading St. Anthony's hospitality to anyone regardless of their life circumstances. At St. Anthony's, we welcome "guests" to our dining room and services, not "clients," and the CFO should embody this philosophy and approach. While candidates do not need to be Catholic, successful candidates will have deep personal resonance with St. Anthony's values of healing, community, personalism, justice, and gratitude, be sensitive to the faith-based commitments of the Franciscans friars and have a reputation for living out those values in their professional and personal lives. Translating Franciscan values into work and his/her leadership style is essential, while also bringing effective business practices to bear on the organization's mission.
Every day we support and are supported by thousands of San Franciscans. Everyone who comes through our doors joins the St. Anthony's family and helps us create a future where all people flourish.
St. Anthony's has 275 Full Time Employees and an annual operating budget of $35 million. Our Federally Qualified Health Clinic (FQHC) provides primary care and behavioral health services to 3,000 patients annually. Please visit our website to learn more.
Principal Responsibility The Chief Financial Officer is responsible for the financial management of St. Anthony's, ensuring overall fiscal health of the organization and that we are excellent stewards of our resources. The CFO oversees all financial aspects of St. Anthony's including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial audit, accounting, payroll, insurance, risk management, contracts, planning, and legal financial compliance functions. The position also oversees real estate and facilities management.
In addition, we are seeking a CFO to lead an initiative to develop new sources of revenue, specifically optimizing and expanding our revenue from MediCAL and other associated programs. The position will work closely with the CEO, COO and Chief Strategy Officer to develop new sources of revenue in alignment with our financial goals and values of the Foundation.
This position leads a team of sixteen across Finance and Facilities and reports to the CEO.
In the spirit of our Franciscan values and heritage, our team provides compassion and care daily. As a steward of healing and social justice, you are expected to meet the following duties and responsibilities:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Financial Strategy - Lead financial planning for the organization, including short-term and long-term financial forecasts of financial performance for internal and external use.
- Develop and optimize MediCAL funding and other new sources of ongoing state funding.
- Participates in organization-wide strategic planning in conjunction with Executive Team.
- Oversees organizational risk management for the Foundation. This includes identifying, evaluating, and preventing risks by implementing assessment protocols and controls.
Financial Management - Develop and oversee implementation of all financial reporting, both internal and external. Ensures timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial and management reporting.
- Building a reporting infrastructure that provides a comprehensive, consistent method of reporting medical and financial data to support the management and control of finances, revenue streams, donations and expenses.
- Develop and oversee implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of organization financial systems, including general ledger, monthly financial statements, accounts payable/receivable, payroll, bank reconciliations, investment portfolio, and reporting to outside agencies.
- Oversee annual audit. Stays up to date on nonprofit accounting best practices and state and federal law regarding nonprofit operations.
- Ensure legal and regulatory compliance regarding all financial functions.
- Oversees cash flow planning and ensures availability of funds as needed.
- Oversees cash, investment, and retirement plan assets.
- Oversees financing strategies and activities, as well as banking relationships.
- Represents the organization to financial partners, including financial institutions, lenders, auditors, public officials, and donors.
- Manages the budget for the organization, including development of priorities, presentation for Board of Directors and training and education for management staff. Oversees implementation and monitoring of organization budget.
- Act as staff liaison to Finance Committee and Audit Committee. Presents budget information and other financial issues to staff, Finance Committee, Audit Committee and Board of Directors.
- Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures for all financial related activities including financial policies, expense policies, reserve policies, and investment policies.
- Maintain and administer general insurance programs.
Real Estate and Facilities - Facilitate lease renewals, tenant management, tenant and landlord improvements, and other property management issues.
- Works closely with the Facilities Manager to ensure facilities are well-maintained and kept up to compliance.
Staff Performance and Development - Supervise, develop, and mentor the finance and operations teams.
- Create a positive work environment that emphasizes high standards and a culture of embracing best practices.
Interdepartmental and Community Relationships, Collaboration, and Communication - Consistently demonstrate integrity while working and representing St. Anthony's.
- Establish collaborative partnerships with business unit leaders to manage budgets and business results.
- Practice direct, respectful, open, and honest communication with colleagues.
- Treat all guests, staff, and community members with empathy, dignity, and respect.
Minimum Qualifications - 10+ years progressively responsible nonprofit accounting experience, including management and supervision of accounting programs; experience with $10 million plus budget required.
- Experience overseeing revenue cycle and MediCAL reimbursement systems and developing new sources of funding from the state.
- MBA, CPA or equivalent combination of education and experience desired.
- Data-driven mindset and excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
- Experience and knowledge with facilities/property management and maintenance.
- Experience evaluating and implementing new financial and accounting systems and utilizing technology to drive process improvement.
- Ability to work as member of a management team. Collaborative project management and team-building skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, listening, oral, and written communication skills.
- Ability to set limits, prioritize, delegate appropriately and handle pressure situations. Can respond to emergencies and high-pressure situations in a self-composed and self-assured manner.
- Experience working in a non-profit or community-based social service agency with people experiencing homelessness or poverty.
- Commitment to St. Anthony Foundation Statement of Values.
St. Anthony's has a diverse workforce, welcoming all ethnicities, faith backgrounds and worldviews. We are also proudly Catholic. Our Franciscan identity is at the core of our mission, namely to uphold the dignity and value of the human person and lift the spirits of those in need to help create a society in which all person's flourish.
People of color, differently abled people, LGBT, and folks with lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.
St. Anthony's is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity of culture, thought, and lived experiences. We seek talented, qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, conviction history, uniform service membership/veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical conditions, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression regardless of physical gender, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
St. Anthony's uses E-Verify to validate our new employees' eligibility to work legally in the United States.
Job Tags
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