About This Role
Leading the financial strategy, planning, and operations for the Spy Museum is the core of this new leadership position. The role reports to the President & COO and provides strategic and hands-on guidance for a complex nonprofit with diverse revenue streams and long-term financial needs. The VP will oversee the finance and accounting team, enhance systems, and support board-level decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial strategy, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Develop scenario models, decision-support tools, and clear recommendations for leadership
- Advise on investments, growth opportunities, financial risks, and institutional sustainability
- Own forecasting, analysis, dashboards, cash flow planning, and management reporting
- Improve the clarity, timeliness, and usefulness of monthly financial reporting
- Communicate trends, risks, and opportunities clearly to financial and non-financial audiences
- Lead planning for capital needs, reserves, major projects, and long-term financial capacity
- Oversee treasury planning, banking relationships, cash management, and investment support
- Recommend capital priorities, reserve use, and funding strategies
- Oversee accounting operations in partnership with the Controller
- Ensure strong controls, policies, segregation of duties, fraud prevention, and compliance
- Oversee audit, Form 990, GAAP compliance, and external advisor relationships
- Serve as primary staff partner to the Board Treasurer and Finance & Audit Committee
- Prepare and present clear materials on results, forecasts, risks, and recommendations
- Help the committee focus on strategy, planning, risk oversight, audit, and compliance
- Lead, develop, and clarify roles across the finance and accounting team
- Identify training needs, improve workflows, and reduce manual work
- Promote accountability, responsiveness, continuous improvement, and smart use of technology, AI, and automation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- CPA and/or MBA
- Significant progressive finance/accounting leadership experience, preferably in a complex nonprofit with multiple revenue streams
- Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, analysis, cash management, audit, Form 990, GAAP, and nonprofit compliance
- Experience working with boards, finance committees, auditors, and external advisors
- Strong leadership, judgment, communication, change-management, systems, and data skills
Nice to have:
- Experience in a museum, cultural institution, visitor-serving nonprofit, or similarly complex mission-driven organization
