Division Financial Manager
Current• Manage the Division 3 Finance team, including supervision and mentorship. Provide opportunities for training and career advancement for direct reports. Mentor the team to ensure best practices, collegiality, and high level of retention and performance.• Provide insightful interpretation of data and forward-looking strategic recommendations.• Evaluate information/data and advise Division leadership to drive strategic business decisions, identify issues and opportunities for continuous quality improvement.• Validate the Division’s monthly forecast submissions to ensure accuracy, including staff coverage analysis.• Analyze, improve, and streamline complex financial reports and models including variance and trend analysis to highlight key business components and models that support current division/WestEd business strategies and goals operational, and financial goals.• Combine information from various business systems including Adaptive Workday, Cognos, PAC/Salesforce, and disparate other sources to provide coherent and actionable information.• Ensure accurate development of organization or division budgets, including forecast development, and project budget and subcontract management.• Work collaboratively with the Finance & Operations staff across WestEd’s divisions and departments to evaluate existing business processes and recommend improvements to increase accuracy, gain efficiency and establish consistency.• Improve and refine WestEd’s processes, policies, and procedures, particularly related to budgeting and financial activities.• Work collaboratively with and across finance teams to review and develop key financial and budgetary initiatives to ensure successful implementation and compliance across all departments and programs.
