Head of Finance

The Head of Finance (HF) leads the maintenance, management, and reporting on Food Revolution Network's finances, budgets, and financial health in order to most effectively deploy capital in ways that increase profitability and help the organization achieve its impact goals. The HF works directly with the CEO and the Fractional CFO to maintain or improve existing systems and establish new systems to drive decision-making and improve better efficiency.

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer and Fractional CFO

Requirements

Finance Management

Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal activities and financial planning.

• Establish and maintain highly organized accounting and bookkeeping systems.
• Streamline and reconcile financial data across various organization systems.
• Develop and maintain secure procedures to hold confidential financial information.
• Ensure all accounting activities and internal audits comply with financial regulations.
• Monitor and manage:
  • Banking activities and alert management/stakeholders when appropriate.
  • Accounting data entry related to bookkeeping.
  • Weekly account reconciliations.
  • Accounts payable payments, including, but not limited to: contractors, affiliates, vendors, and credit card bill payments.
  • Withholding, sales tax, unemployment tax, state business licenses and registrations
• Manage relationships with 3rd party finance-related partners, including insurers, merchant service providers, etc.

• Develop the ability to project, plan, and evaluate business investments into new products, services, and partnerships
• Develop the ability to negotiate and/or provide input and analysis for high-risk/high-impact financial deals
• Proactively raise issues with direct or indirect financial impact and possible solutions.
• Work with the Leadership team members to refine their budgets for optimal efficiency and results.
• In partnership with the Fractional CFO, interface with business professionals including bankers, CPAs, attorneys, vendors, contractors, etc.
• In partnership with the Fractional CFO, interface with partners, investors, and relevant stakeholders as needed, to manage high risk, high return issues and relationships.

Analysis

Conduct continuous analysis of FRN's financial status with a critical eye to spot data anomalies, trends, or deviations and introduce strategies for improvement.

• Forecast monthly, quarterly and annual results.
• Allocate resources and manage cash flows.
• Conduct profit and loss analyses for internal and external initiatives.
• Ensure capital and resources are optimally deployed, including recommending cost-reducing solutions.
• Coordinate with FRN's CPA to ensure the appropriate presentation of the books.
• Provide financial health analysis, including margin analysis, return on investment calculations, and business model optimization

Reporting

Provide useful reports to CEO, Leadership Team, and the company overall that inform contextual fiscal awareness, risk management, and financial strategic planning.

• Provide monthly, quarterly and annual reports, as requested and necessary.
• Provide reliable current and forecasting reports.
• Provide monthly fiscal health, and KPIs reports.
• Provide financial scenario planning and consultation.
• Develop and maintain leading and lagging indicators that impact and inform the financial performance of the organization, including relevant benchmarking and best practices (this may initially need to be done with guidance from the Fractional CFO)
• Develop and maintain other ad hoc financial reporting and management as needed, including risk assessments, financing requirements, business model analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and investment return estimates (this initially may need to be done with guidance from the Fractional CFO)

Finance Team Management

Manage and mentor the Finance team for robust performance.

• Supervise and foster skill development with all finance personnel.
• Manage and monitor the CPA, to ensure that all local, state and federal tax returns are accurately filed and meet requirements for national, state, and local agencies.
• Create and implement systems for robust documentation to facilitate role clarity, team member redundancies, and scality capacity.

Leadership Team

Serve as a member of the Leadership team, working cross-functionally with other organizational leaders in helping to strategize, visualize, and implement overall organizational direction.

• Participate in leadership meetings and training.
• Work with the Leadership team to sharpen and steward the implementation of sound strategy to help create sustainable and scalable growth, recurring revenue, and product improvements.
• Expand FRN's authority and visibility.
• Collaborate with the Leadership team to maintain and improve a friendly, sustainable, diverse, collaborative, equitable, inclusive, and efficient team culture.

Role Skills

• Excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting models
• Solid analytical and decision-making skills
• Proficient with Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel
• Proficient with Google Drive
• Strong management and team leadership skills
• Advanced to expert-level skill with Quickbooks Online
• Proficient with Fathom
• Proficient with PayPal
• Expert at balancing bank statements
• Extremely well-organized
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Strong writing skills
• Excellent math skills, especially pertaining to accounting and reporting requirements

Behavioral Competencies

All FRN team members are expected to adhere to our Global Behavioral Competencies.

Working Environment

• Reliable high-speed internet connection
• A quiet, functional, and stable work environment
• Comfortable working with a team via Slack
• Comfortable working with others via Zoom video conferencing
• Comfortable working within a project management system
• Expert-level proficiency with G Suite products, specifically Docs and Sheets.

Benefits

About Us

Our mission is healthy, ethical, and sustainable food for all.

Food Revolution Network is an online-based education and advocacy-driven organization committed to healthy, ethical, and sustainable food for all. Guided by John and Ocean Robbins, we have more than 750,000 members and collaborate with many of the top food revolutionary leaders of our times. Food Revolution Network aims to empower individuals, build community, and transform food systems to support healthy people and a healthy planet.

We believe that everyone, regardless of the color of their skin or how much money they have, deserves the knowledge and the means to healthfully feed themselves and their family. We're committed to a world with a true opportunity for everyone to be healthy.

About You

You believe in the power of healthy, organic, fair trade, local, plant-strong food to change the world. You're passionate about supporting the food revolution and movements for a more healthy, ethical, and sustainable world. You support our scientifically grounded, fact-driven, and welcoming approach, which promotes a whole foods, plant-based diet and is inclusive of a broad range of eaters.

You're values-driven, highly motivated, self-aware, ethical, emotionally intelligent, multiculturally competent, compassionate, socially conscious, constantly learning, and respectful of yourself and others. You're reliable, dedicated, undaunted, persistent, friendly, and forthright. You admit your mistakes, clean up your messes, and learn from everything.

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Food Revolution Network is a committed equal opportunity employer. FRN recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At FRN, we aim to be a place where a diverse mix of talented people bring their skills, life experience, passion, and creativity to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. We are committed to healthy, ethical, and sustainable food for ALL, and that requires a proactive dedication to advocating for equity, inclusion, and opportunity including for those communities that have been most negatively impacted by our toxic food culture. We are committed to equality and believe in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and all the other characteristics that enable each person to bring unique talents, insights, and skills.

Work Location

FRN is a fully remote team, with team members in multiple North American time zones. This position may be performed from anywhere, but we strongly prefer North America-compatible time zones, with a required availability from 9 am - 3 pm Pacific Time Monday through Thursday.

Compensation

Compensation can be discussed prior to scheduling an interview. Full-time employees also receive paid time off, flexible time off for holidays, wellness time off, health, vision, and dental insurance, opportunities for bonuses, 401k eligibility, and other benefits.