• Maintain up-to-date grant and subgrant financial systems and trackers, ensuring alignment between budgets, expenditures, contract obligations, and reporting requirements. 

• Provide in-depth analysis and updates on grant financial status to program and leadership team members regularly. 

• Monitor grant spending, obligation, and burn rates; proactively flag risks and variances; and surface clarifying questions as needed. 

• Develop grant budgets and financial narratives in partnership with program and development staff. 

• Prepare grant financial reports and supporting documentation for funders. 

• Assist with preparation of subgrant agreements and manage subgrant payment schedules, in collaboration with the Director of Grants and Strategy Management and Director of Finance. 

• Support grantee compliance monitoring as needed. 

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and clarity in financial systems and workflows. 

• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the organization’s strategic plan and grant funding to properly code organizational expenses to the correct programs and grants.  

• Support annual audit preparation and response to auditor requests in coordination with the Director of Finance. 

• Support the Director of Finance with monthly close activities, including preparation of reconciliations and draft financial statements as needed. 

• Ensure adherence to accounting policies and internal controls. 

• Serve as the primary finance contact for program team members regarding grant budgets, spending, and reporting. 

• Establish and maintain a regular cadence of communication with program teams to ensure shared understanding of financial status and expectations, surfacing clarifying questions where needed. 

• Translate financial information into clear, accessible insights for programmatic colleagues. 

• Partner closely with the Director of Finance on forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis. 

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and clarity in financial systems and workflows. 

• Serve as a backup for core finance and accounting functions as needed. 

• Support continuity and knowledge sharing across the finance team

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field 

• Minimum two to five years of relevant accounting or finance experience; nonprofit and grants management experience strongly preferred 

• Knowledge of nonprofit accounting standards and GAAP 

• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines 

• Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross functionally with nonfinance team members 

• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel required; proficiency with QuickBooks Online preferred 

• Critical thinking: Leads self and others to analyze complex initiatives. Synthesizes inputs across program, finance, and leadership to surface risks early, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend clear actions/decisions supported by data. 

• Ownership & execution: Owns end-to-end execution of key processes. Drives cross-functional accountability to ensure budgets, coding, expenditures, and reporting remain aligned; escalates issues appropriately and closes loops through resolution. 

• Relationship building: Builds trusted partnerships with program and development team members. Uses strong judgment and diplomacy to drive results. 

• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with a proven track record of communicating complex financial information clearly to nonfinance audiences and providing decision-oriented updates to leadership. 

• Solutions orientation: Proactively identifies opportunities for improvement and responds to evolving needs through the implementation of practical solutions.  

• Adaptability: Demonstrates optimism and flexibility in ambiguous situations. Thrives on managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.  

• Teamwork: Strengthens team effectiveness by collaborating closely with Finance & Operations colleagues and enabling program teams’ success through responsive partnership. 

• Inclusion: Models inclusive professionalism, actively seeking out diverse perspectives to improve decision-making. Builds respectful relationships and maintains strong rapport and working norms across functional teams. 

• Medical insurance: Including access to a high-quality network with SCORE paying the full medical premiums for employee-only plans and 80% or more of premiums for plans including eligible dependents 

• Vision and dental insurance: Including access to a high-quality network with SCORE paying 50% of premiums for employee-only plans and plans that include eligible dependents 

• Employer-paid disability, life insurance, and EAP benefits 

• Access to a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for medical and childcare expenses and Health Savings Account (HSA) benefits 

• Eligible for immediate participation in a 401(k) program with employer match 

• Paid parental leave time, including paternity, maternity, and adoption leave  

• Paid time off: 

• Fifteen days per year for years one through four, 20 days per year after five years 

• Holiday office closures (15 days total in 2026) 

• Six paid sick days per year 

• Teamwide mental health day office closures (two total in 2026) 

• Paid floating holidays (three per calendar year, prorated for new hires depending on start date) 

• Free on-site parking 

• Free on-site gym 

• Student focus 

• Collaboration 

• Optimism 

• Excellence 

• Innovation

To live out our core value of collaboration, SCORE believes that diverse perspectives are required to identify solutions that will best serve Tennessee students, so we seek to bring as many viewpoints as possible into our daily work.