Chief Finance Officer

Position Summary

The Chief Finance Officer (CFO) is a key member of CSB's executive leadership team, responsible for leading the organization’s financial strategy. The CFO provides strategic financial guidance to the President & CEO, leadership team, and Board of Directors while ensuring the organization maintains strong financial stewardship of the public and private resources entrusted to it. CSB operates within a complex funding environment that includes federal, state, local, and philanthropic investments supporting housing and homelessness services across the Columbus and Franklin County region.

The CFO oversees financial planning, accounting, grant financial management, budgeting, and financial reporting, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and maintaining the integrity of financial systems and processes.

This role also plays a critical leadership role in strengthening the organization’s financial infrastructure and supporting the continued modernization of financial systems and workflows. The CFO will work closely with finance staff, compliance teams, and operational leaders, and partner with Development and Government Affairs to align financial planning with revenue generation and the broader funding strategy, in order to improve financial processes, enhance reporting capabilities, and support effective management of the organization’s funding partnerships.

The successful candidate will bring strong accounting expertise, experience managing complex funding environments, and the ability to serve as a strategic partner in guiding organizational decision-making. This individual will lead the finance function through continued operational improvements while building trust and collaboration across the organization.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (“Must-Haves”)

• Demonstrated expertise in accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, and audit leadership, with the ability to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance across complex, multi-source funding environments
• Proven track record of leading financial strategy within complex, multi-entity or regionally coordinated organizations, including deep experience with grant-funded and reimbursement-based models, HUD, Continuum of Care (CoC), and UFA compliance, and management of restricted and unrestricted funding streams
• Trusted strategic advisor to executive leadership, Boards of Directors, and Finance Committee, with the ability to translate financial insights, modeling, and forecasting into actionable guidance that informs planning, governance, and decision-making
• Experience leading financial functions through organizational change, strengthening infrastructure, modernizing systems, and embedding best-practice financial and operational disciplines, while building and developing high-performing teams
• Deep operational and financial management expertise, including grant financial oversight, cash flow and investment management, risk mitigation, revenue cycle, and asset management, and oversight of core finance functions
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments, leveraging financial systems and data tools to drive performance, while bringing a pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and mission-aligned mindset to support long-term sustainability and impact

Who we are

CSB leads a coordinated community effort to ensure everyone has a place to call home. We bring together 16 agencies across Columbus and Franklin County, OH, to work together as a cohesive system for change, driving:

Strategy: to prioritize and position innovative solutions in alignment with planning

efforts by federal, state, and local agencies

Accountability: through data and compliance monitoring for all public funding from

federal, state, and local levels, as well as private sector funding

Collaboration: within the homeless system, between other systems of care, and across

the community

Resources: from federal, state, and local levels in both the public and private sectors

We maximize effective and efficient use of resources to achieve the best possible

collective impact for Columbus and Franklin County. With the support of a compassionate community, our system of care served over 15,950 people last year with homelessness prevention, shelter, street outreach, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing.

CSB is funded by the City of Columbus, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners,

the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ohio Development Services Agency, the State of Ohio, and many other public and private investors.

What we do

The mission of the CSB is to lead a coordinated, community effort to ensure everyone has a place to call home. CSB focuses on driving strategy, accountability, collaboration, and resources to achieve the best outcomes for people facing homelessness.

How we do it

• Street Outreach
• Diversion and Coordinated Entry
• Prevention
• Shelter
• Rapid Rehousing
• Transitional Housing
• Supportive Housing