Chief Financial Officer

Are you a force for good? Is the thought of changing the world for the better, and at a significant scale through your vocation appealing to you? Are you a business finance leader that excels at helping organizations effectively allocate resources while ensuring appropriate returns, programmatically and/or financially? Does the opportunity to devote your talents to driving the financial, social, and environmental impact of an organization excite you? The Arbor Day Foundation could be the organization that makes you love where you work.

As one of the world's largest operating conservation organizations, the Arbor Day Foundation educates and engages stakeholders and communities across the globe to involve themselves in its mission of planting, nurturing and celebrating trees. Our vision is to help others understand and use trees as a solution to many of the global issues we face today, including air quality, water quality, climate change, deforestation, poverty and hunger. Through our programs and business ventures we work with leading corporations, members, and partners in over 45 countries finding creative ways to deliver value.

We need a Chief Financial Officer to help us drive organizational results through disciplined resource deployment and evaluation of returns. The ideal candidate is a leader of leaders, able to influence outcomes through effectively setting clear expectations and evaluation models. As a member of the Leadership Team, this individual will need to think past their direct line of leadership and more organizationally.

You Have:

• Experience. You’ve been a CFO for a mid to large company.
• Influenced the triple-bottom line. You understand that sustainable and successful organizations care about more than just the profit, and are equipped to also drive social and environmental impact.
• Led others. You lead through inspiring others to be the best version of themselves, leading is your natural skillset and tendency.
• Facilitated the creation of organizational budgets. You’re very comfortable overseeing the strategic direction of the why and how to allocate organizational resources through the budgeting process.

You Will:

• Inspire others. By providing down-line leadership to over 20 people across our Accounting, Business Intelligence and Procurement teams and Executive Leadership throughout the Foundation.
• Own driving results. You will apply business experience to drive decisions that help us optimize our financial and mission impact results.
• Be part of our Executive Team. Our executive team provides leadership through setting organizational vision and strategy, nurturing and enhancing culture, and living out our core values.
• Establish expectations and processes. Bringing discipline to how we set baselines, deploy resources and identify the best opportunities for return.

Love Where You Work:

• We're in this together. A culture focused on kindness, collaboration and the intrinsic shared purpose to do what’s right. We pride ourselves on the culture we’ve built. We love it, and we know you will too.
• We care about your health. Competitive healthcare (health, dental, vision) coverage for you and your loved ones matched with a wellness incentives program.
• We invest in your future. Company paid short-term and long term disability, life insurance and 401k with company match.
• We want to stay connected. We’ll hook you up with a company laptop and phone.
• We’ll round out the experience. We put our culture first, and we host events and experiences throughout the year to show that we care about you (and your family).