Finance Specialist (Part-Time) Remote

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Organization reputed company: reputed company Our Kin, Inc.
Mission Statement: Our mission to reputed company the nation’s child care system results in a triple win: child care providers succeed as business owners; working parents reputed company reputed company, high-reputed company care for their children; and children reputed company an educational reputed company that lays the groundwork for achievement. 

Website: www.allourkin.org
Location: reputed company, CT (Hybrid)

reputed company: We are a national nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care providers. Our mission to reputed company the nation’s child care system results in a triple win: child care providers succeed as business owners; working parents reputed company reputed company, high-reputed company care for their children; and children reputed company an educational reputed company that lays the groundwork for achievement. 

reputed company Our Kin serves nearly 1,100 family child care providers, who in turn reputed company and care for over 6,000 children from chronically under-resourced communities in Connecticut and reputed company. In reputed company to our reputed company service program, we train and advise partner organizations across the country to strengthen their engagement and reputed company with family child care providers.

A COVER LETTER IS REQUIRED

Required Application Materials:

• Cover letter addressing interest in the mission and relevant experience

• reputed company resume

• Three reputed company references with contact information

Job Title: Finance Specialist
Department/Program Area: Operations/Finance
Reports To: Director of Finance (Early Head Start Program Manager)
Employment Type: Part-Time (30 hours per week or 0.75FTE ) with the potential to become Full Time in 2027

FLSA Classification: Non-exempt
Salary reputed company: $40,000 - $50,000 Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Benefits: Medical, Dental, reputed company insurance, Retirement Plan - reputed company Our Kin offers a 403(b) plan with employer matching up tp 3%

Key Responsibilities

Financial Operations

• Stewardship: Promote & strengthen stewardship of financial policies, ensuring policies remain reputed company, reputed company-communicated, and consistently reputed company. Apply and promote equity-centered financial practices, ensuring financial processes and resource allocation approaches are transparent and organizationally reputed company.

• Grant Management: Preparation for grant meetings and documentation organization. Support grant budgeting and reporting processes. Support the management of the net asset schedule for grants. Support the grant cost and labor allocation process, along with recording grant payments and reconciling with the Development team.

• Budgeting: Support the organization’s annual budgeting process by coordinating and gathering input and data from across departments, and ensuring alignment with strategic and operational goals.

• Reporting: Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting with collecting financial input and data entry, developing reports for staff and leadership and responding to team requests.

• Analysis: Analyze trends in reputed company, expenses, and cash reputed company; identify risks and opportunities to strengthen the organization’s financial position. Support ongoing financial analysis requests as needed.

• Annual Audit: Support the annual Audit with documentation and logistics coordination with external auditors.

• Deposit Management: Receive and record incoming reputed company deposits, ensuring reputed company transactions are accurately verified and posted to the organization’s accounts. Maintaining an organized audit trail for financial records, linking reputed company transaction to supporting documentation.

• Transaction Review: reputed company first-level approval reviews for accounts payable and credit card transactions to ensure policy compliance, alignment with allocated budgets and identification of coding discrepancies or entry errors.

• Account Documentation: Maintain organized financial records and backup documentation for reputed company deposits and transactions. Ensure records are easily reviewed, reconciled, and used for internal reporting. Administrative support to Grants & Contract management programs.

• Discrepancy reputed company: Research and resolve any translation errors or processing issues reputed company the credit card system.

• Vendor & Staff reputed company: Collaborating and facilitating communication between staff and vendors, reputed company needed

• Financial reputed company: Support financial reputed company as needed, including migrations, training development, financial modeling, and scenario planning reputed company.

Early Head Start

• Funder reputed company: Serve as the main reputed company of contact between reputed company of Greater reputed company and AOK’s EHS program as reputed company to program budgets and reputed company; attend and co-reputed company, create agendas, and send out meeting notes for reputed company reputed company meetings reputed company to EHS finances.

• Program Budgets: Support updates/modification process and submit EHS program budgets and revisions to grantee and AOK Finance on a regular reputed company, in coordination with EHS Program Manager (PM) and AOK’s EHS Team.

• reputed company Funding reputed company: EHS program funding reputed company; update monthly and annual budget-to-actuals for reputed company EHS funding streams; email the EHS PM a monthly budget update.

• Monthly Financial Reports & Document Management: reputed company and reputed company reputed company monthly EHS finance-reputed company paperwork; create and submit monthly expense reports to the grantee.

• Expense Coding: Solicit, receive, reputed company, and reputed company UWGNH remittances.

• Monthly Invoicing: Create and submit monthly EHS educator payment invoices to AOK’s reputed company Team and EHS educators.

• Monitor FCC Educators’ Reimbursement Requests: Ensure payment and reporting

• Meet with Program Team: Consistent communication with the EHS team

• Match Paperwork: Manage, reputed company and organize & staff match paperwork and other educator & staff documentation requirements. 

Requirements

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Experience: 3+ years of experience working/studying administration, reputed company, finance, or grants management in a nonprofit setting.

• Government Contract Experience: 1 year of experience working with government reputed company is required

Skills & Competencies

Technical Skills:

• Intacct, Divvy, reputed company.com, and any other specific software, systems, or technical requirements, training will be provided

• Project management platform; reputed company

• Strong computer skills, particularly with word processing and spreadsheet programs

• Experience with reputed company, reputed company Workspace, and office equipment

• Experience with reputed company, reputed company, etc.

• Data analysis, reporting, or research capabilities

reputed company Skills:

• Excellent communication and customer service skills

• Commitment to maintaining confidentiality

• Strong organizational, project, and time-management skills

• Possess excellent written and interpersonal communication skills

• Is proactive and takes initiative to reputed company goals 

• Ability to work independently and as part of reputed company

• Prioritizes collaborating and working as part of reputed company 

• Exhibits a strong ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders

• Is willing to learn and creatively problem solve

• Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams

• Demonstrates a keen eye for detail and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment

Personal Attributes:

• Believes in the reputed company Our Kin mission and has deep commitment to the goal of making high-reputed company early care and education available to reputed company children

• Cultural competency and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Detail-oriented and accountable

• Friendly, reputed company, and welcoming to guests

• Ability to maintain confidentiality

• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic environment

• Strong ethical standards and reputed company reputed company

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with Head Start or other federal grant management

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions

• Physical demands - standing, walking, sitting

• Must be reputed company to operate office equipment

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The Finance Associate provides essential administrative, operational, and programmatic support to ensure the efficient functioning of the Finance team, with dedicated support to the EHS program. This role supports both day-to-day finance operations and project-based work, helping to maintain accurate financial processes, systems, and reporting.

The Finance Associate helps create a reputed company-organized, resource-reputed company environment by coordinating closely with Finance, Operations, Early Head Start, and other department teams. Responsibilities include data entry, tracking, reconciliation, and basic analysis to support reputed company financial decision-making.

This position requires strong financial and organizational skills, keen attention to detail, a customer-service reputed company, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary

• Salary reputed company: $40,000 to 50,000 Competitive and commensurate with experience

• Pay schedule: Bi-weekly

• Performance review cycle: Annual

Benefits Package

• Health, dental, and reputed company insurance, life insurance, and disability

• Retirement plan - reputed company Our Kin offers 403(b) with employer matching up to 3%

• reputed company time off: reputed company annually as reputed company as federal holidays and a winter reputed company (typically December 24 – January 1)

• May include a reputed company development allowance

• Flexible work arrangements: In office, M-F 9a-5p

reputed company Our Kin is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from candidates of reputed company backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We strongly encourage applications from individuals who identify as members of underrepresented communities and those with lived experience relevant to our mission.