Invisible Children is seeking an Interim CFO who thrives in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment and who is excited to bring both strategic leadership to the organization, while also ensuring oversight and support to the organization’s day-to-day finance and accounting needs.

Category: Consultancy
Location: Remote, with a preference for candidates in the Washington, D.C. area
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors
Supervises: Senior Accountant; Finance & Accounting consultant(s)
Duration: 8-10 month contract (depending on start date) with possibility of extension
Level of Effort: Initially part-time (2-3 days/week), shifting to full-time starting early 2025

Position Summary

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads Invisible Children’s global financial operations, manages the Finance Department, and promotes the financial health of the organization by providing strategic financial analysis, modeling, and advisory support to the CEO and Board of Directors. As a member of the Invisible Children (IC) Global Leadership Team, the CFO plays a critical role in ensuring cost-effectiveness and efficiency in addressing issues related to development and delivery of the organization’s strategy. This position works closely with the CEO, the Board of Directors, and department heads and serves as the principal liaison to external auditors and relevant vendors. The CFO ensures that financial systems and procedures are in place to support timely and accurate reporting, forecasting, effective planning, program implementation, and oversight. This position oversees the global budget preparation process, and is a main contributor and reviewer for proposal and project budgets. 

About Invisible Children 

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., IC is an international non-profit organization working to end violent conflict and exploitation facing our world’s most isolated and unprotected communities. We partner with local visionaries in volatile conflict zones to build community-led initiatives and drive global policy change to end violent conflict and ensure communities have the safety they deserve. Currently, our programs support communities impacted by violent conflict in remote areas across the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, and South Sudan. 

IC is in a season of transition and is seeking an Interim CFO who thrives in a dynamic and highly collaborative environment, and who is excited to bring both strategic leadership to the organization while also ensuring oversight and support to IC’s day-to-day finance and accounting needs. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Provide strategic guidance and leadership regarding the policies, processes, and systems necessary to manage the organization’s financial operations in an effective and efficient manner;

+ Oversee all financial operations of the organization including cash management, accounting, reporting, forecasting, and risk management activities, ensuring compliance with GAAP, national law, donor requirements, regulatory requirements and best practices;

+ Provide high-level financial reporting, analysis, and modeling to the CEO and Board of Directors to help ensure the financial health of the organization;

+ Foster a collaborative working relationship across the organization to ensure effective budget preparation, monitoring, and linking actual results back to strategic priorities established by the Board of Directors and Executive Leadership;

+ Serve as the Finance Lead for due diligence, planning, and implementation of all strategic partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, and/or asset transfers;

+ Lead the annual budgeting and planning process in conjunction with Executive Leadership Team; administer and review all financial plans and budgets;

+ Oversee the financial management and reporting for subawards and contracts;

+ Prepare timely and accurate financial reports for Executive Leadership, Board of Directors, and Global Leadership Team;

+ Ensure quality and timely preparation of financial reporting materials for government, foundation, and private grants ensuring that expenditures are aligned with grant and program budgets;

+ Lead all external audit processes, including IC’s annual Single Audit and project audits, managing the ongoing relationship with external auditors to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.

+ Ensure Country Office accounting and financial systems for planning, managing, and reporting are effective, efficient, consistent, and aligned with policies, federal and local laws and regulations while being responsive to donor needs. 

SKILLS REQUIRED

+ Strong and proven organizational and leadership skills; comfortable with a high level of visibility, responsibility and accountability;

+ Demonstrated critical thinking and expertise in designing financial management strategies;

+ Strong manager with emphasis on team building, staff empowerment and career development; and

+ Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills and the ability to develop positive and productive relationships and decisively build buy-in across the organization.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

+ At least three (3) years of executive-level leadership experience;

+ Minimum eight (8) years of hands-on experience in finance and accounting management in the non-profit sector;

+ Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting or related field is required;

+ MBA and CPA are strongly preferred;

+ Experience successfully managing financial audits, including A-133 Single Audits;

+ Demonstrated fiduciary experience and in-depth knowledge of accounting rules including those specifically focused on international non-profit organizations;

+ Strong familiarity with institutional donor rules and regulations, including USAID (required), the U.S. State Department, and the Canadian Government (desired), as it relates to finance and accounting;

+ Experience with mergers, acquisitions, and asset transfers is strongly preferred;

+ Familiarity with Sage Intacct accounting software is strongly preferred; and 

+ Track record of successful management of financial systems and processes improvement, in addition to setting long-term financial goals. 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Interested candidates should apply by submitting a cover letter, CV, expected rate, and the details of at least three (3) referees to [email protected]. Please include your name and “CFO Application” in the subject line.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; the vacancy will close once a suitable pool of candidates has been identified for the interview process.