Chief Monetary Officer | The Planetary Society

ABOUT THE PLANETARY SOCIETY

The Planetary Society has been the world’s largest and best 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 degree of mutual belief. We’re obsessed with our mission and dedicated to continuous organizational enchancment whereas additionally respecting and defending work/life steadiness. Our crew is strengthened by its range of abilities, 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 course and is an lively participant in, and driver of, the group’s total technique. The CFO is a member of the senior management crew and serves because the employees liaison to the Finance and Audit Committees of the Board of Administrators.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Technique and Management              

• Present important enter into short- and long-term strategic and operational planning inside the group.
• Present strategic suggestions primarily based on monetary analyses and projections, price identification and allocation, and income/expense evaluation.
• Oversee long-term budgetary planning and value administration in alignment with the Society’s technique and priorities.
• Work with the Chief Improvement 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 modifications within the working mannequin and operational supply.
• Work with the Finance Committee of the Board of Administrators to determine and preserve sound funding insurance policies.

Division Improvement and Oversight            

• Guarantee compliance with all related rules and legal guidelines.
• Work with CEO/COO to handle annual planning and budgeting for the group and develop monetary forecasts and money stream 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 watch progress and current operational metrics each internally and externally.
• Make sure that finance employees maintains monetary document techniques in accordance with Usually Accepted Accounting Rules, 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 crew; put together and talk month-to-month and annual monetary statements.
• Handle money stream 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 relating to 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 funds.

Crew Improvement and Administration

• Plan and direct the work of the group’s finance and HR workers and contractors, and set up total aims and priorities for finance and HR.
• Recruit, onboard, handle, and mentor finance and HR crew members, together with main common one-on-one conferences, encouraging skilled improvement, setting and monitoring annual targets, conducting efficiency opinions, 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.
• Interact different members of the employees management crew to facilitate cross-department collaboration that ensures that each one monetary and HR options positively help the group’s evolving technique, operations, and information 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 observe document of progressive accountability in accounting and monetary administration, together with managing an annual working funds higher than $3M and the supervision and administration of economic employees.
• Glorious working information of economic software program reminiscent of Quickbooks.
• Superior spreadsheet (Excel) expertise with expertise constructing advanced 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 effectively to employees, 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 robust dedication to sustaining confidentiality.
• A collaborative and versatile model, with a robust service mentality.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The Planetary Society’s CFO place gives a aggressive wage of $194,300 accompanied by a superb 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 in the application form.

The Planetary Society is an Equal Alternative Employer and encourages functions 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.