Senior Manager, Industry Specialty Services

Job Summary:

BDO's Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge, and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.

BDO is a growth-oriented management consulting practice dedicated to building the capacity of the nonprofit sector. We partner with our nonprofit and philanthropic clients to help them attain operational excellence, ensure financial sustainability and effectively achieve their desired impact. Our collaborative approach includes client input and involvement at each stage of an engagement.

As a Senior Manager in BDO's Industry Specialty practice, you will provide professional services that are sensitive to the needs and values of both nonprofit organizations and funders that support them. You will also have opportunities to develop and refine the services we currently offer. In addition to working with funders as clients, you will work directly with on-the-ground nonprofits to help them build their finance and infrastructure capacity. We recognize how important our work with nonprofits is in ensuring our services for funders are informed by current grantee realities.

Job Duties:

Responsibilities vary based on engagements and client needs and require an independent and multi-talented professional with deep experience in philanthropic finance and operations, change management experience and a consulting mindset.

Duties may include any of the following:

Service Delivery

• Leads complex client projects in accordance with the BDO approach to service delivery
• Primarily participates in and leads funder engagements such as:
  
  
  
  • Analyzing current processes, systems, and procedures and making recommendations to ensure best practices while keeping abreast of changing regulatory environments
  • Co-developing critical infrastructure systems and processes including grants management, accounting, investments and operations
  • Training and coaching staff on finance and infrastructure
  
  
• Leads and participates in similar nonprofit engagements
• Ensures quality of project deliverables
• Evaluates performance on client engagements

Business and Relationship Development

• Develops and maintains current and new client relationships, including relationships with foundations, collaborative partner organizations, and direct service providers
• Deepens partnerships with philanthropy-serving organizations (PSOs) and other intermediaries
• Co-develops tools and collateral materials for business development purposes
• Facilitates and contributes to internal processes to support Grantmaker Advisory's business development efforts

Practice and Product Development

• Actively engages with team to refine the Grantmaker Advisory service development strategy
• Identifies opportunities, advocates for new services, and leads their development
• Pursues ways to make engagements more efficient and impactful
• Maintains ongoing knowledge of key developments and acts as subject matter expert in areas over which interested and experienced
• Monitors key performance indicators

Team Development:

• Leads efforts to support skill building of colleagues to provide effective infrastructure support to grantmaking organizations
• Maintains ongoing knowledge of key developments within the philanthropic sector and act as subject matter expert
• Directly supervises colleagues on projects
• Participates in recruiting and onboarding activities

Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education

• Bachelor's degree, required
• Master's Degree in Philanthropy, Nonprofit, Business, or Public Administration, preferred

Experience

• Eight or more years of progressive experience performing or overseeing finance, operations, and grants management at a grantmaking organization or professional services firm with grantmaking clients, required
• Proven success leading change management initiatives, required
• Experience with accounting systems and nonprofit accounting principles, required
• Track record of effective facilitation and/or training, preferred
• Experience with 501(c)(4) grantmaking or operations, preferred
• Experience at nonprofit organizations, preferred

Software

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and Power Point, required

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Effective project management skills (on time and on budget delivery)
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills - and effectively lead cross collaboration efforts
• Demonstrated creative, critical and strategic thinking in past positions
• Ability to travel

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $130,000 - $175,000

Maryland Range: $130,000 - $175,000

NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $130,000 - $175,000