Chief Financial Officer

Position Summary

MoPOP’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will partner with CEO Michele Y. Smith, the executive leadership team, and the Finance Committee to dream and sustainably grow the institution in our third iconic decade of operation. The CFO is a transformative leader stewarding strategic growth and innovation by modernizing our operating model, pursuing ambitious earned revenue opportunities, and elevating diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) within our standard operating practices. The CFO manages the finance, compliance, IT and legal functions which includes financial accounting and budgeting, contract management and negotiation, and overarching risk assessment, legal liaising, and insuring all aspects of the business. The Chief Financial Officer will work closely with the VP, People + Culture and Chief Business + Strategy Officer to conceptualize longitudinal strategic and operating plans and forecast sustainable and ambitious growth models to actualize MoPOP’s efforts. A strategic partner to the Board of Directors, the CFO manages audits, taxes, and investments, laying the groundwork for an endowment – moving MoPOP and the Finance Committee towards innovative solutions and strong financial wellness.

Essential Job Duties (other duties as assigned)

Financial + Organizational Leadership:

• Lead, manage, and develop a high-performing and diverse team working across key infrastructure areas, including strategic finance, accounting, legal, compliance and IT functions.
• Oversee and manager MoPOP’s fiduciary responsibilities including development of long-term financial planning strategies, annual budgeting, and monthly/quarterly forecasting process.
• Provide oversight and final review of accounting and financial planning functions, including monthly, quarterly and year end close.
• In partnership with the CEO and leadership team, develop financial strategy setting short- and long-term financial goals through sophisticated financial forecasting and scenario planning, informed by accurate and real-time financial information.
• Drive overall profitability, leading strategic pricing, investments, revenue, cash flow, and expense strategies that lead to continued growth and sustainability.
• Continue to optimize financial and analytics platforms to provide robust information to organizational leaders, enabling organization-wide real-time reporting and decision-making.
• Oversight of the Director of Finance to lead the annual budgeting process; monitor progress and changes.
• Working closely with the accounting team, oversee both internal and external reporting, including ensuring compliance with GAAP and all applicable local, state, and federal laws.
• Effectively communicate and present critical financial matters to all relevant key stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Create a thoughtful technology strategy that drives growth and enables the executive team and senior staff to have ongoing access to data.
• Lead the oversight of MoPOP’s knowledge management infrastructure, enabling real-time, robust access to best-in-class current resources and tools.
• Oversight of Director of IT to provide with the most up-to-date tools and resources available and is readily able to leverage technological systems and solutions to meet goals.

Compliance + Risk Management:

• Partner with CEO, VP of P+C, and CBSO to maintain strong systems and processes that enable full compliance and reporting with all federal, state, and local legal and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee staff managing federal and state contracts to ensure contracts are secured, allocated, budgeted, tracked, and in compliance.
• Lead organization-wide management of legal affairs, insurance, and other risk management strategies

Executive Leadership + MoPOP Community:

• Leadership oversight of layered finance and IT teams including recurring 1:1 meeting, biannual performance reviews, ongoing professional development, and coaching.
• Provide on-site support on high-visibility days and evenings for openings, late night programming, select Spectacular Saturdays, Member exclusive hours, fundraisers, and other events as identified by the CEO.
• Serve as Manager on Duty on assigned weekends to provide senior leadership support for on-site operations team.
• Support our internal culture which inspires and empowers our staff to live our mission to its highest standards.
• Contribute to a consistent customer service standard across all departments.
• Work to ensure customer service is ingrained at the core of the team and is reflected outward to our guests and other staff.

Preferred/Desired Qualifications

• At least twelve (12) years of professional experience, with five (5)+ years leading the finance function for a complex organization and experience overseeing and streamlining systems to enable growth with experience in managing a budget of at least $20 million with multiple funding streams.
• Experience overseeing multiple operational functions in a large, complex organization, including implementation of administrative systems.
• Deep finance expertise, including financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting with understanding of endowments and organizational investments.
• Clear and effective communicator with extensive experience presenting to executives and boards.
• Strong team leadership skills, with high emotional intelligence, and a passion for coaching and developing leaders.
• A highly collaborative and transparent leader who is able to balance being inclusive and decisive.
• Demonstrated success leveraging exceptional strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills to improve systems and processes, navigate complexity, overcome challenges, and achieve impact.
• Demonstrated success in working with teams of diverse, strong, creative people to achieve common goals; demonstrated ability to lead peers through influence rather than authority.

Benefits

This regular full-time position includes Medical/Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Life/AD&D/LTD insurance, 4.62 hours of accrued Vacation per bi-weekly pay period (equaling 15 days per year), Seattle Sick/Safe, 7 Floating Holidays, 8 Company Holidays paid throughout the year, EAP, 401k plan with vested match schedule once eligible, and subsidized transportation benefits for Orca Pass or parking.

Why MoPOP?

We’re really glad you’re thinking about joining the team at MoPOP! We believe pop culture is a universal language capable of building connections across a range of people, no matter our differences in race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, ability, education, socio-economic status, ethnicity, country of origin, or any other characteristic that makes us who we are. For more than twenty years, we have been showcasing how music, film, fashion, video games, sports, and more spark those connections and create a lasting cultural impact.

MoPOP provides both a physical space and an emotional and intellectual opportunity for people from any background to explore, find and build community, and recognize their own creative potential. This applies not only to our guests, but also to our staff — be it in designing an educational program to engage the next generation of creators, trying to reach a new audience with a marketing initiative, preserving an artifact in our collection, or providing excellent customer service to a visitor. If this sounds like something you’d be into, we’d love to hear from you!

MoPOP’s Mission and Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility 

Our mission is to activate the world-shaping power of pop culture through participative experiences, discovery, and play. We believe pop culture connects us, and that it is powerful, complex, alive and who we are. MoPOP is actively committed to ongoing learning in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). In partnership with our community, we hope to also develop safe spaces for their application. This includes taking steps to continue increasing our awareness of institutional “-isms,” as well as uncovering and undoing the ways they show up in museum culture. We recognize this is a process that requires intentionality, energy, and resources, and we are developing a DEIA framework that can cultivate a work environment and museum experience that is truly welcoming for all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having staff, interns, and volunteers with diverse backgrounds enables us to better meet our mission and encourage BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA2S+ individuals to apply. We acknowledge that our work to build safe spaces and better systems for traditionally marginalized groups is ongoing and will require constant vigilance and expect all MoPOP employees to be part of our DEIA journey.

Please email jobs@mopop.org if you need reasonable accommodations during the application or hiring process.