--- title: 'Budget Director at Working Families Party' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/budget-director-working-families-party-brooklyn-gznqt44mhrp0' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # Budget Director at Working Families Party - **Company:** Working Families Party - **Location:** Brooklyn, NY - **Compensation:** $100k–$132k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-11-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies/3f9c71c8-fe0a-4f37-a544-6c92a8089f07 ## Job description ## About EpicWorks 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. ## ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 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. ## SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS - 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. ## About Working Families Party ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: The Working Families Party (WFP) is a progressive political party in the United States that fights for the multiracial working class by recruiting, training, and electing people-powered candidates. - **Entity Type**: Private (Nonprofit Political Organization) - **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States - **Founded**: 1998 - **Founders**: Bertha Lewis, Dan Cantor (merger of the New Party, Citizen Action, and ACORN) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Political Organizations, Electoral Campaigning, Advocacy - **Target customers**: Voters, activists, working-class individuals, unions, community organizations (B2C and B2B with partner groups) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build a nation that works for the many, not the few – fighting for higher wages, fair criminal justice, and getting money out of politics. ## Products & Services - **Candidate Recruitment & Training**: WFP identifies and trains progressive candidates for offices from city council to U.S. Senate. - **Electoral Campaigns**: Runs field organizing, messaging, and get-out-the-vote operations, sometimes in Democratic primaries, sometimes on the WFP ballot line. - **Coalition Building**: Partners with unions, community organizations, and social movements to advance a shared legislative agenda. - **Membership Program**: Offers a dues-paying membership ($10/month or $120/year) that gives supporters a direct role in party governance. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (nonprofit) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of USD $3,653,167 (most recent data); Membership of 69,622 (December 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Unions, community organizations, and social movements; the party is governed by its members and partner groups. - **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for multiple senior roles (Chief Development Officer, Director of Engineering, state directors, organizers); expanding into new states like Massachusetts and Rhode Island; 152 employees with offices in five U.S. locations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Fusion Voting Strategy**: WFP cross-endorses candidates on its own ballot line in states where fusion voting is legal, giving working-class voters a distinct progressive option without "spoiling" the election. - **Multiracial Coalition**: Deliberately built as a multiracial party, uniting diverse communities around shared economic and social justice goals. - **Proven Track Record**: Over two decades of electing transformational leaders and winning major policy victories (higher wages, criminal justice reform, money-in-politics reform). ## Strategic Focus - **State Chapter Expansion**: Currently building new state chapters (e.g., Massachusetts, Rhode Island) and deepening existing ones (California, New York, Oregon). - **Electoral Power**: Recruiting and running candidates up and down the ballot, with a focus on local and state races that build long-term movement infrastructure. - **Data & Technology**: Investing in engineering and data infrastructure to better target voters and measure campaign effectiveness (recently hiring a Director of Engineering). ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Culture**: Staff are deeply committed to progressive change and working in a unionized, inclusive environment. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Health/dental/vision (first of month after hire), FSA, life insurance, 401(k) with immediate vesting, generous vacation (including comp time, sick days, personal days), paid parental leave (up to 12 weeks), sabbatical after 4 years, short-term disability, and $400/year professional development fund. - **Remote/Hybrid Options**: Many roles are fully remote; some are hybrid (e.g., California organizer roles). Utility reimbursement of up to $175/month for home office costs. - **Unionized Workplace**: Employees are represented by the New York Metropolitan Area Joint Board, Workers United union. - **Employee Reviews**: 3.5/5.0 on employer rating (56 reviews). Culture scored highest (3.8), work-life balance 3.1, compensation 2.7, career 2.8. ## Sources 1. [workingfamilies.org - Jobs](https://workingfamilies.org/jobs/) 2. [workingfamilies.org - About](https://workingfamilies.org/about/) 3. [workingfamilies.org - Home](https://workingfamilies.org/) 4. [jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies](https://jobs.lever.co/workingfamilies) 5. 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