Director, Finance

POSITION SUMMARY
The Director, Finance provides strategic oversight and leadership in financial management, accounting, and business development. This role combines deep financial acumen with technology expertise to transform processes, optimize system performance, and drive data-driven decision-making. The Finance Director will play a key role in modernizing the finance function by leading ERP, BI, and other financial system integrations across the organization.
Responsibilities include overseeing financial planning, reporting and financial analysis for both internal management use and external use, budget/forecast management, monitoring cash flow, oversite of financial systems and conversions, report-writing tools and technology projects and developing and maintaining best practices and strong financial controls for the Dr. Phillips Center Finance department day-to-day fiscal functions.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES
• Leads all financial planning and analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and assist in annual financial audit and schedule preparation.
• Builds and manages monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts.
• Champion automation, standardization, and process improvements across financial operations.
• Drive the integration of business intelligence and financial systems to create a unified, accurate financial data environment. Optimize technology platforms to provide timely and informative reporting to senior leaders, board committees, and other internal/external stakeholders.
• Identifies opportunities and challenges in financial systems and processes. Lead the Finance team in implementing and integrating business systems with core applications, such as ticketing, payroll, and points of sale. Partner with IT and operations to optimize finance-related technology platforms and workflows.
• Monitors and evaluates fiscal performance against budgets and forecasts. Provide actionable recommendations on revenue, margins, expenses, productivity, profitability, and budget/forecast variance analysis. Maintain ongoing analysis of departmental expenses and profit centers to ensure proper and adequate reporting and controls.
• Assists in maintaining, developing, or updating monthly financial reporting using our financial application software for Internal management reporting and GAAP reporting.
• Perform cash management functions including establishing company-wide treasury policies/internal controls cash flow forecasting and analysis, preparation of the daily cash report and Positive Pay approvals.
• Interacts with team members as a strategic partner in understanding, recording, reporting, and analysis of the financial impacts and projections for presenting events, banquet and rental events, food & beverage, parking, education and arts & wellness programs, grants and contributions, and sponsorships.
• Manages the organization’s insurance policies, renewals, and applications to address property, casualty and legal liability risks.
• Oversees job costing, budgets, and cash flow management, including payment applications and other invoices as required by contracts.
• Monitors changes in tax laws (local, state, federal, and foreign) and assess their impact on the organization.
• Ensures compliance with all local, state, and federal government reporting requirements.
• Oversees monthly accounting activities, ensuring adherence to standard accounting principles. Perform administrative responsibilities, including recruiting, interviewing, selecting, training, supervising, counseling, and evaluating the performance of the team for efficient department operation.
• Oversees monthly accounting activities, ensuring adherence to standard accounting principles for maintaining the organization's financial records. Perform administrative duties, including recruiting, interviewing, selecting, training, supervising, counseling, and evaluating team performance to ensure efficient department operations.
• Follow and support all operational policies and procedures. Assimilate into the arts center culture through understanding, supporting and demonstrating the core values.
• Maintain a professional and friendly relationship with other departments, colleagues, and partners.
• Able to remain calm under pressure. Ability to work effectively with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact, and diplomacy. Maintain Dr. Phillips Center standards of customer service at all times.
• Able to effectively communicate in English in both written and oral forms.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required; MBA or pr