You don’t have a CFO, so someone’s handling the numbers “on the side.” Your Executive Director or a board member is keeping an eye on Finance and overseeing your junior accountants and bookkeepers. Things more or less get done, well enough.
But your organization is growing and stretching, and it’s clear: You need real financial leadership. Someone who’ll
You don’t have a staff account or controller, and you’re not ready to bring a new hire on board. But you need someone to take charge, for now. Someone who’ll produce financial statements following applicable accounting standards. Someone who’ll see that accounting controls are appropriate and working.
Money’s coming in and going out. Someone needs to enter that into an accounting system in a disciplined, predictable fashion, so that the numbers can be rolled up into usable financial reports.