Daniels Talent Solutions
Daniels Talent Solutions
Daniels Talent Solutions (DTS) is a consulting company that helps mission-driven organizations build high-performing, inclusive workplaces. Its services include equity-infused recruitment, talent strategy, and leadership development, with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Drawing on more than 30 years of combined experience in the education and nonprofit sectors, DTS develops tailored approaches to talent recruitment and retention that align with each organization’s mission and address practical workforce challenges. Its work also spans healthcare and marketing contexts.

Senior Financial Controller – Watkinsville Hybrid

Lead financial strategy, reporting, budgeting, and scalable systems for ESP, a nonprofit serving people with disabilities and their families. This full-time role is hybrid in Watkinsville.

Description

  • Advise organizational leaders on financial strategy and decision-making
  • Convert organizational priorities into financial models, forecasts, resource plans, and recommendations
  • Analyze financial performance, sustainability, capacity, risk, growth, and investment needs
  • Prepare scenarios and recommendations to support sound leadership decisions
  • Monitor emerging financial trends, risks, opportunities, and constraints
  • Direct accounting operations and financial reporting
  • Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities
  • Oversee the general ledger, payables, receivables, cash, restricted funds, fixed assets, payroll accounting, and related financial operations
  • Prepare clear financial reports and facilitate monthly financial reviews
  • Lead or materially support annual budgets, forecasts, cash-flow plans, financial models, and long-range financial planning
  • Create dashboards, forecasts, variance analyses, and tools that support decisions
  • Assess investments, programs, staffing plans, capital expenditures, and other strategic opportunities
  • Develop scalable financial infrastructure while strengthening processes, systems, transparency, and accountability
  • Maintain internal controls and compliance with accounting standards, regulations, grant and donor restrictions, tax obligations, and organizational policies
  • Coordinate audit preparation and manage relationships with auditors and external financial partners
  • Lead, mentor, develop, and hold finance and accounting staff accountable
  • Collaborate with organizational leaders to strengthen financial understanding among non-financial teams

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related discipline
  • Experience managing or supporting a complex organizational budget, preferably within an organization of comparable size
  • Proven ability to lead and develop employees
  • Strong knowledge of nonprofit GAAP, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, audits, and financial systems
  • Experience advising senior leaders by connecting financial insights with organizational strategy and operations
  • Background in developing or improving financial processes, systems, infrastructure, controls, and reporting
  • Proficiency with QuickBooks, Rippling, Excel, Google Docs, and comparable tools
  • Ability to communicate clearly with both financial and non-financial audiences
  • Capacity to work effectively at strategic and detailed levels
  • Experience collaborating with executive leaders and/or boards
  • Experience in nonprofit finance
  • Experience supporting multi-site or multi-location operations, or the ability to build financial systems for organizational growth

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package with health insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Supplemental life and disability insurance
  • Generous paid time off
  • Energetic, passionate, and enjoyable employee culture
  • Opportunity to support a mission that changes lives every day
  • Occasional travel to sites throughout Georgia and North Carolina
  • Quarterly in-person all-staff gatherings

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