Chief Monetary Officer | The Planetary Society

ABOUT THE PLANETARY SOCIETY

The Planetary Society has been the world’s largest and simplest house advocacy group for 45 years. Co-founded by Carl Sagan and now led by Invoice Nye, The Planetary Society’s mission is to empower the world’s residents to advance house science and exploration. We provide a supportive and collaborative work surroundings and function with a excessive stage of mutual belief. We’re enthusiastic about our mission and dedicated to continuous organizational enchancment whereas additionally respecting and defending work/life stability. Our workforce is strengthened by its variety of skills, experiences, and views. We foster mutual respect and a way of belonging for all folks in our work.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Reporting to the Chief Working Officer (COO) and dealing with the Chief Govt Officer (CEO) and Board of Administrators, the Chief Monetary Officer (CFO) leads all monetary and human useful resource features for The Planetary Society. The CFO units the group’s monetary coverage and path and is an lively participant in, and driver of, the group’s general technique. The CFO is a member of the senior management workforce and serves because the workers liaison to the Finance and Audit Committees of the Board of Administrators.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Technique and Management              

• Present very important enter into short- and long-term strategic and operational planning throughout the group.
• Present strategic suggestions primarily based on monetary analyses and projections, value identification and allocation, and income/expense evaluation.
• Oversee long-term budgetary planning and price administration in alignment with the Society’s technique and priorities.
• Work with the Chief Growth Officer to align monetary administration with short- and long-term monetary planning and projections.
• Inform the Finance Committee of the Board of Administrators about points, traits, and adjustments within the working mannequin and operational supply.
• Work with the Finance Committee of the Board of Administrators to ascertain and keep sound funding insurance policies.

Division Growth and Oversight            

• Guarantee compliance with all related laws and legal guidelines.
• Work with CEO/COO to handle annual planning and budgeting for the group and develop monetary forecasts and money movement projections to make sure the supply of funds for the group’s packages, common operations, and long-term stability and development.
• Oversee the implementation of budgets, to observe progress and current operational metrics each internally and externally.
• Make sure that finance workers maintains monetary file methods in accordance with Typically Accepted Accounting Ideas, and monitor the usage of all funds.
• Oversee the preparation and approval of all monetary reporting supplies and metrics for funding organizations, The Planetary Society’s Board of Administrators, and the Society’s management workforce; put together and talk month-to-month and annual monetary statements.
• Handle money movement and forecasting; direct all monetary, project-based, and departmental accounting.
• Guarantee well timed completion of annual audits, monetary statements, and guarantee correct submitting of tax returns and state registrations.
• Guarantee authorized and regulatory compliance concerning all monetary features.
• Coordinate all audit actions.
• Foster easily working finance and HR features by way of well timed and efficient decision of disruptions.
• Consider present monetary processes and instruments and implement enhancements as wanted.
• Guarantee finance and HR applied sciences are used effectively, cost-effectively, and securely.
• Consider and oversee all advantages negotiations.
• Handle banking and funding supervisor relationships.
• Guarantee distributors are paid on-time and companies stay inside price range.

Staff Growth and Administration

• Plan and direct the work of the group’s finance and HR staff and contractors, and set up general aims and priorities for finance and HR.
• Recruit, onboard, handle, and mentor finance and HR workforce members, together with main common one-on-one conferences, encouraging skilled improvement, setting and monitoring annual targets, conducting efficiency critiques, and administering wage changes for all direct reviews.
• Embody and promote The Planetary Society’s core values: ardour, credibility, optimism, integrity, effectiveness, and inclusion.
• Promote a tradition of excessive efficiency and steady enchancment that values studying and a dedication to high quality.
• Have interaction different members of the workers management workforce to facilitate cross-department collaboration that ensures that each one monetary and HR options positively assist the group’s evolving technique, operations, and knowledge assortment wants.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s diploma in Accounting, Finance, or associated self-discipline; MBA and/or CPA most popular.
• 10+ years of expertise in progressively accountable monetary management roles.
• Profitable monitor file of progressive duty in accounting and monetary administration, together with managing an annual working price range higher than $3M and the supervision and administration of economic workers.
• Wonderful working data of economic software program resembling Quickbooks.
• Superior spreadsheet (Excel) expertise with expertise constructing complicated budgets and fashions.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing finance, accounting, compliance, budgeting, inner management, and monetary and funding reporting.
• Demonstrated capacity to speak successfully and relate nicely to workers, Board members, advisers, members, donors, and others.
• Expertise with analyzing, creating, reengineering, and recommending monetary and HR insurance policies and procedures and sustaining HR compliance.
• Integrity, honesty, and a powerful dedication to sustaining confidentiality.
• A collaborative and versatile model, with a powerful service mentality.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The Planetary Society’s CFO place gives a aggressive wage of $194,300 accompanied by a wonderful advantages bundle together with a 7% employer contribution to a 403(b)-retirement financial savings plan, paid worker healthcare with quite a lot of plan choices, a beneficiant PTO plan, and the power to work hybrid or distant.

HOW TO APPLY

To use for this place, please fill within the utility type.

The Planetary Society is an Equal Alternative Employer and encourages purposes from certified people who’re consultant of the culturally and ethnically numerous communities that we serve. 

Envision Consulting was retained by The Planetary Society of their seek for a Chief Monetary Officer.