Build With Berean · School Finance
School Finance Department Head
Berean is recruiting an experienced finance professional to manage day-to-day school-level financial administration while institution-wide financial leadership and corporate fiduciary authority remain elsewhere.
View Job Duties & Express Interest- Pre-launch
- 10–15 hours/week
- Post-launch
- 8–12 hours/week initially
- Benchmark
- $100.62/hour
- CPA
- Preferred, not mandatory
Location
Remote. Work and meetings take place online. No routine travel or in-person attendance is required. Any exception will be stated in the opportunity and agreed before you accept. Please review any location or work-eligibility requirements listed for this particular role.
The Responsibility
Make school financial operations reliable.
The Department Head administers tuition, payment plans, refunds, student balances, sponsorship transactions, completion-reward calculations, records, reconciliations, controls, and reporting.
School-level responsibilities
- Tuition payments
- Payment plans
- Refunds
- Student balances
- Sponsorship transactions
- Completion-reward calculations
- School financial records
- Reconciliations
- Controls
- Reporting
- Bookkeeping/financial administration
- Coordination with outside accounting/tax specialists when needed
Authority Boundary
School finance is not the institution's CFO function.
Institution-wide financial leadership belongs within Operations & Institutional Leadership; corporate fiduciary and budget authority remains with the Board.
Qualifications
Substantial professional finance or accounting competence is required.
CPA credentials and nonprofit or education-finance experience are preferred rather than mandatory.
Existing Systems
This is an operating role, not a blank-sheet build.
The incoming Department Head inherits Berean's student-finance and administrative systems and is expected to test, refine, operationalize, and manage them.
Workload
Current approved planning estimate.
- Before launch
- 10–15 hours/week.
- After launch
- 8–12 hours/week initially.
Professional Service
How Berean Values Professional Service
Berean applies the same compensation philosophy across eligible professional roles. Strong market compensation is not reserved only for executives. Each position is valued according to the market for that work using the same general standard across the organization.
Berean currently values eligible professional service at approximately the 70th percentile of comparable national U.S. compensation. In other words, the benchmark is intended to be higher than the compensation received by approximately 70% of people performing comparable work.
Because many launch positions are part-time, Berean expresses that value as an hourly benchmark applied to documented professional-service hours.
The benchmark represents the professional value of the service performed. It is not a guaranteed wage or payment commitment; any compensation must be stated in your agreement. Actual compensation is determined through Berean's established nonprofit compensation process based on available uncommitted funds after operating expenses and other obligations.
Before service begins, your agreement records how the role is lawfully engaged and any guaranteed amount or rate. Any payment dependent on available funds is distinguished from a guaranteed payment, and no provision waives legally required wages or other mandatory protections.
- Hourly benchmark
- $100.62/hour
Next Step
Expression of Interest
Review the published job duties and introduce yourself if the responsibility fits your experience. An Expression of Interest begins a professional conversation; it is not an appointment or commitment to serve.
Express Interest in School Finance