Financial Data & Systems Analyst

Who we are: CCOF advances organic agriculture for a healthy world. We advocate on behalf of our members for organic policies, support the growth of organic through education and grants, and provide organic certification that is personal and accessible.

CCOF is a nonprofit organization governed by the people who grow and make our food. Founded in California in 1973, our roots now span the breadth of North America, and our presence is internationally recognized. We are supported by an organic family of farmers, ranchers, processors, retailers, consumers, and policymakers. Together, we work to realize a future where organic is the norm.
Position Summary:

We are looking for a Financial Data & Systems Analyst to join our Finance and Accounting team and support our mission-driven work. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong financial and accounting knowledge with data analytics, systems thinking, and a drive to improve how information and processes work across an organization.

The Financial Data & Systems Analyst will work closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams to strengthen financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, grant tracking, data analytics, and financial systems. Key responsibilities include preparing financial reports and dashboards, analyzing trends and variances, supporting the annual budget process, monitoring grant and restricted-fund activity, improving data quality and reporting, supporting system integrations and automation, and identifying opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce manual processes.

We are looking for someone who is analytical, highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across financial and operational systems. The ideal candidate can identify problems, ask the right questions, evaluate information, recommend practical solutions, and independently move projects forward. Experience with financial or ERP systems, reporting and data tools, nonprofit or grant accounting, systems integrations, and process improvement is highly valued.

This is a full-time, salaried exempt position reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. This is a United States-based remote position, operating on a Pacific Time Zone work schedule.
Essential Responsibilities:

Lead Financial Reporting, Budgeting, and Strategic Analysis

- Prepare financial reports, dashboards, budget-to-actual reports, forecasts, models, and analyses for management, executive leadership, committees, and the Board.

- Analyze revenue, expenses, reserves, cash flow, liquidity, operating results, financial trends, variances, and risks.

- Support the annual budget process, including templates, data consolidation, assumptions, scenario modeling, cost allocations, and reporting.

- Prepare schedules that support intercompany reporting, management reporting, grant reporting, and functional expense reporting.

- Build and maintain dashboards using approved spreadsheet, ERP, CRM, reporting, business intelligence, or data visualization tools.

- Create visual reports for revenue, expenses, budget-to-actuals, grant spending, cash flow, reserves, AR aging, AP obligations, indirect cost recovery, staffing trends, certification activity, and Foundation activity.

- Automate recurring reports to reduce manual preparation time and improve consistency.

- Maintain documentation for dashboards, including data sources, refresh schedules, definitions, and assumptions.

- Support grant and restricted fund reporting, including budget-to-actual tracking, allowable cost analysis, reimbursement support, cost share/match tracking, indirect cost calculations, and funder reporting schedules.

- Track grant spending by cost category, activity, funding source, reporting period, and responsible program.

- Prepare schedules that support grant billing, reimbursement requests, match documentation, audit review, and funder compliance.

- Support monitoring of grant balances, spending rates, reporting deadlines, and funding rest