Stewardship Finance & Administration Lead
Inver Grove Heights, MN, US, 55077-1721
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
Summary
The Finance & Administration Lead serves as the organizational expert for grants finance, foundation financial management, compliance, systems, and portfolio operations for CHS Stewardship. The role owns Blackbaud Grantmaking governance, audit and control frameworks, and financial planning for a ~$8M annual grantmaking and operating portfolio. The Lead supervises a Grants Specialist and carries a selective program management portfolio.
Responsibilities
1) Financial Stewardship & Foundation Financial Management
⦁ Serve as functional financial authority for all CHS Foundation and Community Giving grantmaking activity, ensuring compliance with IRS regulations, GAAP, and internal controls.
⦁ Lead annual budget development, forecasting, and multi-year financial modeling for payout, commitments, and program strategies.
⦁ Develop and manage cash flow forecasting for Foundation liquidity, endowment payouts, and multi-year grant liabilities.
⦁ Collaborate with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and external auditors to ensure accurate financial reporting and regulatory compliance.
⦁ Interpret financial statements, endowment performance data, and fund restrictions to provide strategic recommendations to Stewardship leadership.
2) Systems Ownership & Data Governance (Blackbaud Grantmaking)
⦁ Own system architecture, coding structures, permissions, and workflow configuration.
⦁ Design and maintain application, reporting, and payment workflows; optimize user experience.
⦁ Maintain data governance standards and produce complex portfolio and financial reporting for leadership and boards.
3) Compliance, Audit & Risk
⦁ Lead annual external audit preparation, coordinating documentation, evidence, and corrective actions.
⦁ Ensure compliance with IRS regulations, including 501(c)(3) verification, private foundation rules, and expenditure responsibility.
⦁ Maintain internal policies and implement updates required by regulatory or operational changes.
4) Leadership of People & Practice
⦁ Supervise, coach, and develop the Grants Specialist; oversee workload, performance, and skill development.
⦁ Define and continuously improve standard operating procedures, RACIs, and service-level expectations.
5) Program Management
⦁ Manage select Foundation program portfolios including strategy implementation, partner engagement, and outcome measurement.
⦁ Conduct site visits, relationship management, funding recommendations, and final reporting for assigned portfolio.
⦁ Develop KPIs, logic models, and annual program performance insights.
6) Impact & Insights
⦁ Lead the development of Stewardship’s contribution to the CHS Sustainability Report, ensuring grantmaking, volunteerism, and community impact data are accurate, compelling, and aligned to enterprise reporting frameworks.
⦁ Synthesize quantitative and qualitative impact data (e.g., outcomes, KPIs, stories, multi‑year trends) into clear narratives and metrics.
⦁ Translate financial, operational, and program data into insights to support strategic planning and board decision-making.
7) Enterprise Engagement
⦁ Support cross-enterprise initiatives including Spirit of Service Days, Giving Campaign, and volunteer engagement.
Minimum Qualifications (required)
⦁ 7+ years of progressive experience in grants finance, foundation financial management, nonprofit accounting, or philanthropic operations.
⦁ Advanced financial acumen, including experience with foundation budgeting, multi-year grant liabilities, endowment spending policies, and financial reporting.
⦁ Demonstrated expertise with grants management systems (Blackbaud preferred) and internal control frameworks.
⦁ Experience translating grantmaking outcomes and community impact data into narratives and metrics for corporate sustainability, ESG, or annual social impact reports.
⦁ History of supervising staff and leading complex cross-functional projects and processes.
⦁ Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to translate financial concepts for non-financial audiences.
Additional Qualifications
⦁ Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, nonprofit management, or related field strongly preferred.
⦁ Experience with corporate foundations, community foundations, or higher-education partnerships.
⦁ Proficiency with SAP, Blackbaud Grantmaking, and YourCause.
CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.
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