educationsuperhighway - Director of Finance & Operations

• Donation Processing and Operations • Design and build the end-to-end donation processing infrastructure, covering critical fundraising tracks. • Manage and optimize the donation platform stack, ensuring payment processing, pledge management, recurring gift administration, and payroll deduction flows operate reliably and at scale. • Own the operational relationship with payment processors, donation platforms, and payroll giving infrastructure providers. • Build reconciliation processes that ensure donation records, payment receipts, and CRM data are accurate and consistent across all systems. • EFTC Compliance and SGO Administration • Become EducationSuperHighway's internal expert on EFTC compliance requirements, understanding the federal regulations governing SGO donation processing, donor eligibility, credit documentation, and scholarship fund deployment. • Build and maintain the documentation, recordkeeping, and reporting systems required to demonstrate compliance with EFTC regulations across all donor types and all 50 states. • Develop donor acknowledgment and tax documentation processes, ensuring every donor receives timely, accurate, and legally compliant gift receipts and EFTC credit documentation. • Coordinate with external legal and tax counsel to ensure all donation operations meet current regulatory requirements and adapt quickly to any regulatory updates. • Manage state-level SGO reporting obligations, ensuring EducationSuperHighway meets all filing, reporting, and compliance deadlines across approved SGO states. • Scholarship Fund Management • Own the financial flows from donated funds to scholarship disbursements, building the controls, approval processes, and audit trails required to manage scholarship funds responsibly and in compliance with EFTC regulations • Coordinate with the Director of Program Operations to ensure scholarship funding flows align with provider contracts, student eligibility determinations, and delivery timelines • Build financial reporting on scholarship fund utilization, tracking funds raised, funds committed, funds disbursed, and scholarship outcomes by state and provider • Financial Reporting and Controls • Build and maintain financial dashboards providing real-time visibility into donation volume, revenue by track, fund utilization, and compliance status. • Develop the internal controls framework for donation operations, ensuring appropriate segregation of duties, authorization workflows, and audit readiness. • Prepare regular financial reports for senior leadership and the board covering fundraising performance, operational costs, and fund deployment. • Manage the annual audit process for donation operations and scholarship funds in coordination with EducationSuperHighway's external auditors. • Systems and Infrastructure • Build integrations between fundraising CRM systems, donation platforms, payroll-giving systems, and financial accounting systems to ensure accurate, automated data flows. • Develop the data architecture and reporting infrastructure that will support financial operations as donation volume grows from launch through national scale. • Define the Finance and Donation Operations team structure needed to support the program at scale, identifying when and what to hire as donation volume grows. • Recruit, onboard, and manage team members as the function expands.