Budget Director at Working Families Party (Brooklyn, NY)Budget Director

EpicWorks provides movement organizations with the values-aligned infrastructure and services they need to fulfill their missions with confidence. We help strengthen the core of their operations by providing essential, dependable services related to people practices, financial management, legal compliance and organizational health. EpicWorks sets up organizations to achieve greater impact.

EpicWorks team members specialize in finance, human resources, compliance, legal services, organizational culture and labor relations. Each team member brings years—often decades—of experience supporting organizations fighting for justice.

This role will work directly for EpicWorks and will not be employed by Working Families Party or Working Families Power.

Financial Partnership & Budget Management

• Serve as a financial partner to department heads and senior leaders at Working Families Party and Working Families Power.
• Lead the technical financial work needed for annual budgeting and regular forecasting to support department leaders and budget managers.
• Review budgets, actual spending, forecasts, staffing assumptions, and financial commitments with leaders on a regular basis.
• Identify significant variances, emerging risks, and financial trends and help leaders understand their possible implications.
• Model financial scenarios and help leaders evaluate staffing, programmatic, and operational decisions.
• Translate financial information into clear, actionable information for non-finance audiences.
• Provide hands-on support to departments of particular priority as identified by the CFO and Director of Management and Budget.
• Develop a strong understanding of the accounting system and the revenue and expenses underlying budget-versus-actual reports, including fundraising revenue projections and actual results.
• Support the development of financial dashboards tailored to the reporting and decision-making needs of Working Families' department and division directors.

Participating Organization Support

• Provide financial guidance to our portfolio of Participating Organizations and fiscally sponsored projects, including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, reporting, and financial planning.
• Meet regularly with organizational leaders to review financial performance, identify risks, and support sound decision-making.
• Develop training, tools, dashboards, templates, and written guidance that strengthen financial management across organizations.
• Support the financial onboarding of new Participating Organizations, including workflows, expectations, and financial systems.
• Collaborate with other EpicWorks teams to provide coordinated and responsive support.

Financial Planning, Systems & Team Leadership

• Develop and continuously improve budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting tools and methods, and enterprise level financial planning processes.
• Partner with the Controller and accounting staff to ensure management reporting is timely, accurate, and grounded in sound accounting practices.
• Support improvements to NetSuite and other financial systems and identify opportunities to streamline or automate reporting and analysis.
• Supervise and develop finance staff, setting clear priorities and expectations and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellent service.
• Step into detailed financial analysis and operational work when needed.

• 7–10 years of progressive nonprofit finance experience, including leadership or supervisory experience.
• Significant experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, cash flow management, and management reporting.
• Experience serving as a strategic financial partner to executives, department heads, or other organizational leaders.
• Experience working in complex, multi-entity nonprofit environments, including 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations.
• Strong understanding of GAAP, internal controls, and nonprofit financial management.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex financial information into practical guidance for non-finance leaders.
• Strong relationship-building and service orientation, with excellent communication and follow-through.
• Commitment to EpicWorks values of Accountability, Justice, Resilience and Collective Responsibility.
• Experience improving financial processes, reporting tools, dashboards, and systems.
• Experience supervising and developing finance staff.
• Experience with NetSuite or similar financial management systems.
• Experience with fiscally sponsored projects and grant-funded organizations strongly preferred.
• Experience in political, advocacy, movement, or other mission-driven organizations preferred.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor, or take over sponsorship of, employment visas at this time.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion EpicWorks is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to apply for or perform the essential functions of the job should contact us at jobs@workingfamilies.org with the subject line "Application Accommodation" to request such an accommodation.

This role will work directly for EpicWorks and will not be employed by Working Families Party or Working Families Power.