Director of Finance

Your top priority is to ensure that the organization’s finances are managed well and that it is financially sustainable.

You feel like a major responsibility for you here is to make sure that compliance and tax matters are handled properly, and to ensure that the organization’s annual audit goes smoothly and that the organization is consistently improving its financial performance, and remains in good legal standing. You are very conscious of the fact that the stock markets are volatile and that could have a negative impact on budgets for the organization in the coming year.

What You Know about Acadia:

XYZ Foundation has been working in Acadia for the past 8 years. XYZ has primarily funded based on the pressing priorities in Acadia – in the last 4 years, that has meant investing in environmental justice and LGBTQI+ rights. In the past 2 years, XYZ Foundation started to explore work around forced evictions and natural resource extraction, largely in response to human rights criticisms and new community organizing.

XYZ Foundation generally has a good reputation among progressive and human rights focused NGOs though the Acadia Conservative Party does have political suspicions about XYZ Foundation’s motivations in Acadia. XYZ joins a relatively active community of funders working to tackle social inequalities, with whom we have strong relationships and a history of collaboration which is very important to assuaging XYZ’s board’s concerns when they arise.

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