Position: Financial Controller Start Date: June 1 Salary: $70,000-$90,000 Reports to: VP of People and Operations
Position overview
The Controller oversees Adventure Cycling’s accounting operations, including revenues, expenses, property, cash flows, assets, and liabilities. Along with providing financial reporting expertise and cost analysis, the controller also ensures compliance with all applicable regulations and fiscal policies and procedures.
The Controller has direct contact with the management team, leadership team, board members, and staff, as well as with external auditors, and various local, state, and federal agencies. In addition to serving Adventure Cycling, the Controller works collaboratively with leaders concerning business operations. The Staff Accountant reports directly to the Controller.
About Adventure Cycling
As the largest nonprofit cycling organization in the country, Adventure Cycling has an impactful voice in policies and programs that advance the safety and accessibility of cycling. Adventure Cycling serves through its members and the bike travel community. Our cycling community encourages and supports countless cyclists each year as they explore the beauty and history of America while tending to their mental and physical well-being. For nearly half a century, Adventure Cycling has created life-changing experiences that deepen appreciation for our country’s diverse cultures, communities, landscapes, and people. Adventure Cycling headquarters are based in Missoula, MT, and we acknowledge and honor the Indigenous peoples who consider this land their home. The area’s natural abundance was stewarded by many peoples including the Blackfeet, Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Kootenai, Pend d’Oreilles and Salish for millennia before colonization, and continues to be to this day.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The Staff and Board of Directors of Adventure Cycling Association believes in the power of bicycle travel to open minds and change the way the world explores. We envision a future where this organization draws staff, tour leaders, members, board members, and riders from the whole of our society. For this to occur, bicycle travel has to be available for everyone.
We are committed to listening to BIPOC, LGBTQ, and other marginalized peoples and understanding the systems contributing to oppression while also working to provide more resources and support for these communities.
The Adventure Cycling Association acknowledges its place in this power dynamic. As an organization we have benefitted from white privilege omnipresent in the United States and must use our power to hire, support, empower, and create safe spaces for Black, Indigenous and People of Color, LGBTQIA+, and Femme/Trans/Women communities.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the accounting operations and provide financial reporting expertise for Adventure Cycling leadership
Assist leadership with important financial decisions using cost analysis, risk and opportunities, and other forecasting methods. We are looking for someone who can get their head above the trees!
Transactional activities including accounts payable, accounts receivable (revenue recognition and billing), and payroll, general accounting, reconciliations, month-end close, and maintaining workpapers
Analysis and data visualization, budgeting and forecasting
Grant management, allocations, and funder reporting
Prepare financial documents such as business reports, financial forecasts and statements
Oversee and direct budgeting, audit, accounting, and financial forecasting.
Assure procedures and systems necessary to maintain proper records and to afford adequate accounting controls and services. Recommend and implement improvements.
Supervise employees who work under the Controller to oversee accounting, bookkeeping, and payroll
Keep up-to-date on the financial market to understand how to maximize programs and find new expansion areas
Present at monthly and quarterly board/leadership meetings on financial state
Financial reporting for management and Board decision making and presentations
Required Qualifications
5+ years of progressive experience in nonprofit financial management
Prior supervisory experience
Demonstrated working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and FASB pronouncements
Comprehensive knowledge of annual financial reporting audit processes
Comprehensive knowledge of Federal and State annual reporting requirements
Demonstrated knowledge of management practices within a complex budgetary environment
Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections
Excellent planning, organization, and communication skills to interact effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
Advanced proficiency in business applications, such as Microsoft Office Suite
Knowledge of automated financial systems
Ability to maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials
Ability to operate strategically and on a detailed level
Understanding and willingness to engage with issues of institutional and structural racism or bias and their impacts on our organization and community.
Commitment to equity and inclusion and to learn and respect differences of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, ability, religion and socio-economic circumstances and class.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with MIP/Abila and other accounting software
Experience working with people very different from yourself.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Physical Requirements
Elements of job duties may require occasional moving of up to 15 pounds and the ability to occasionally stoop, kneel or crouch; candidates not able to meet such demands can possibly work with staff or others to accommodate.
Compensation, Schedule and Benefits
This is a full time, exempt position (average 40 hrs/week). Schedule varies by supervisor, but is generally M-F, 8am-5pm MST. We are located at Adventure Cycling’s headquarters in beautiful and bike-friendly Missoula, Montana, but are open to remote applicants within the United States. Preference will be given to candidates from Montana or who leave near major airport hubs. Travel to the Missoula office is expected about four times a year. Benefits include paid time off, holidays, an additional fully paid one-week bike vacation (a.k.a. “bike respite”), medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and retirement plan. We have a wonderful office in downtown Missoula, with plenty of bike racks! Adventure Cycling Association is an equal opportunity employer.
How to apply
Please answer the following question in the second half of your cover letter: Explain how you would approach analyzing a company's financial health, considering both the micro-level details and the macro-level trends. Discuss the specific financial metrics, ratios, and qualitative factors you would assess, as well as how you would synthesize this information to draw meaningful conclusions about the company's overall performance and future prospects.
To apply, submit your cover letter and resume to our Submittable portal.
About Adventure Cycling:
As the largest nonprofit cycling organization in the country, Adventure Cycling has an impactful voice in policies and programs that advance the safety and accessibility of cycling. Adventure Cycling serves through its members and the bike travel community. Our cycling community encourages and supports countless cyclists each year as they explore the beauty and history of America while tending to their mental and physical well-being. For nearly half a century, Adventure Cycling has created life-changing experiences that deepen appreciation for our country’s diverse cultures, communities, landscapes, and people. Adventure Cycling headquarters are based in Missoula, MT, and we acknowledge and honor the Indigenous peoples who consider this land their home. The area’s natural abundance was stewarded by many peoples including the Blackfeet, Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Kootenai, Pend d’Oreilles and Salish for millennia before colonization, and continues to be to this day.
