Vice President of Finance and Accounting

The Vice President of Finance & Accounting provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for the YMCA of Greater Seattle’s accounting, financial operations, and compliance functions. This role ensures strong internal controls, accurate financial reporting, and sound fiscal stewardship in alignment with the organization’s mission and strategic goals. The VP is a key leader in driving process improvements, strengthening treasury management, and optimizing the effectiveness of revenue and accounts receivable operations.

This position oversees core accounting (audit, compliance, tax), financial operations (A/P, payroll, procurement/contracts), and treasury management, while also serving as a senior liaison to business units, executive leadership, and the Finance Committee of the Board. The VP plays a vital role in cross-functional planning, technology integration, and continuous improvement initiatives to support financial excellence.

What You Will Get From Working at The Y

Hiring Range: $170,000 - $200,000 annually

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA or MBA strongly preferred.
• 10 years of progressively responsible finance and accounting leadership experience.
• Deep knowledge of nonprofit accounting, fund accounting, and regulatory compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and retain high-performing teams.
• Experience implementing financial systems and improving cross-functional workflows.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust, drive collaboration, and communicate financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience in a complex, matrixed nonprofit environment strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders and present findings to senior management.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, managing competing priorities and deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
• Commitment to upholding ethical standards, integrity, and confidentiality in all financial activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and previous experience with diverse populations (language, culture, race, physical ability, sexual orientation, etc.).
• The ability to speak any language in addition to English may be helpful.
• Other combinations of applicable education, training, and experience that provide the knowledge, abilities, and skills necessary to perform effectively in the position may be considered.

Expected Hours of Work:

Full-time position, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with occasional evening and weekend work as needed.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. This position requires occasionally lifting office products and supplies up to 20 pounds.

Travel

Travel is primarily local, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected.

Strategic Financial Leadership

Serve as a key advisor to the CFO/COO, executive leadership team, and Board and its committees on financial strategy, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
Provide leadership and oversight to a high-performing finance and accounting team through clear direction, coaching, and accountability.
Support organizational decision-making by delivering accurate, timely, and actionable financial analysis and reporting
Accounting and Compliance

Oversee all general ledger accounting, monthly close, account reconciliations, and financial reporting.
Ensure timely and clean audits, 990 preparation, and adherence to GAAP, federal and state regulations, and YMCA policies.
Maintain and update fund accounting policies and develop technical accounting memos as needed.

Financial Operations

Lead the Payroll, Accounts Payable, and Procurement & Contracts teams with a focus on accuracy, timeliness, and service orientation.
Drive improvements in procurement and payroll processes, including evaluating outsourcing or automation options as appropriate.
Ensure efficient and compliant purchasing and contract management aligned with organizational risk tolerance
Revenue Operations & Cash Management

Strengthen revenue recognition and accounts receivable processes to reduce billing errors, improve collections, and support cash flow forecasting.
Partner with internal stakeholders and funders to improve grant billing, receivables management, and restricted revenue tracking.
Lead the organization’s treasury management strategy, including short- and long-term cash flow forecasting and reserve planning
Financial Planning & Analysis Oversight

Provide strategic oversight and leadership of the Financial Planning & Analysis function, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and financial goals.
Partner with senior leaders to assess financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and drive forward-looking strategies.
Ensure robust variance analysis, reporting accuracy, and the integration of FP&A with accounting and treasury functions.
Process Improvement & System Optimization

Champion system integrations and process improvement initiatives to reduce manual workarounds and enhance data quality.
Lead cross-functional efforts to improve data flow between source systems (e.g., TractionRec, Raiser’s Edge, NSPB, UltraCamp) and the general ledger.
Partner with FP&A and IT teams to ensure alignment between financial operations and forecasting, reporting, and planning platforms

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Code of Conduct for Applicants

All employees and volunteers are responsible for adhering to abuse prevention policies, maintaining appropriate boundaries, completing required training, reporting suspicious or inappropriate behavior, and complying with mandated reporting requirements.

Responsible for ensuring staff are properly screened, trained, supervised and held accountable to the organization’s abuse risk management standards.