Complex mission. Real enterprise. Big opportunity.
If your idea of a nonprofit CFO role is simply overseeing budgets, audits, and month-end financials, this probably isn’t your job.
But if you want to help lead a complex organization where mission and business meet, keep reading.
VARC is a growing Wisconsin-based organization that supports and empowers children and adults with disabilities and other life barriers to build greater independence and community inclusion. Our work spans person-centered services, employment and skill-building programs, childcare, contract manufacturing and business services, social enterprises, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. Different businesses. Different revenue streams. Different operating dynamics.
That complexity is exactly what makes this opportunity different.
We’re looking for a Chief Financial Officer who thinks beyond accounting. A strategic leader who can make a complicated financial story understandable, challenge assumptions, evaluate risk and opportunity, and help turn ambitious ideas into financially sound decisions.
What you’ll do
Partnering closely with the President & CEO and executive leadership team, you will help shape where VARC goes next. You’ll:
- Build a forward-looking financial strategy for a growing, multi-site organization.
- Turn financial information into actionable insight for leaders and the Board.
- Strengthen forecasting, FP&A, KPIs, dashboards, and enterprise decision-making.
- Evaluate growth opportunities, partnerships, new markets, investments, and potential M&A.
- Guide capital allocation and help answer an important question: Where should the next dollar go?
- Analyze the economics and sustainability of VARC’s diverse programs and business operations.
- Strengthen enterprise risk management and organizational resilience.
- Continue modernizing Finance through better systems, automation, data, and AI-enabled tools.
- Partner with operational leaders to improve performance and sustainability while keeping mission at the center.
Who we’re looking for
- You’re an experienced financial executive who can move comfortably between strategy and detail.
- You ask good questions before offering easy answers. You can explain a complicated financial issue without requiring everyone else in the room to have a finance degree. And you understand that sometimes the answer is no, sometimes it’s not yet, and sometimes it’s yes, and here’s how we make it work.
- You’re credible with auditors, bankers, Boards, operational leaders, and finance professionals, but you’re also approachable. You develop people, value accountability without unnecessary bureaucracy, and are curious about technology and better ways of working.
- Most importantly, you believe financial discipline and mission impact aren’t competing priorities. Done right, each strengthens the other.
What you’ll bring
- Progressive financial leadership experience, including significant executive-level responsibility.
- Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree in a related field preferred.
- CPA, CFA, or comparable professional credential preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead financial strategy in a complex organization.
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, analytical, and strategic decision-making capabilities.
- Experience across multiple business lines, locations, revenue models, or operating entities strongly valued.
- Exceptional communication skills and the executive presence to work effectively with senior leaders and a governing Board.
- A leadership philosophy grounded in service, accountability, development, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Why VARC?
- Because you can be financially ambitious and mission-driven here.
- You can help grow businesses while creating opportunities for people. Build better systems while protecting the human purpose behind them. Help an organization make harder, smarter decisions today so it can serve more people tomorrow.
- We’re growing. We’re evolving. We’re asking hard questions about ourselves. And we’re building the leadership structure for what comes next.
If that sounds energizing rather than exhausting, we should probably talk.