Partner, Finance & Operations bei Praxis

About Praxis

Praxis began in 2011 with a desire to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs and has grown steadily into a 25+ person, NY-centric team advancing the redemptive quests of founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time. As a $12M+/year nonprofit with ambitious growth plans, we're expanding our venture-building work globally, organizing around the major issues of our time, and building media and more to activate the redemptive potential of Christians around the world. We see our team as the first carriers of the mission, building an organization that is great to work at, excellent in its craft, and redemptive in its finances as well as its programs.

A Vision for the Role

As Partner for Finance & Operations, you will serve as a key executive leader and the strategic backbone of Praxis—a trusted advisor to the CEO and broader team whose deep financial acumen and operational expertise makes you the go-to counsel for every major growth decision across our organization. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on operational excellence, requiring both high-level operational thinking and precise execution as you scale Praxis' financial and operational infrastructure across all verticals during our global expansion. Reporting to the CEO and working closely with other Partners while managing our Senior Manager, Finance & Operations, Director, Systems & AI Solutions, and third party accounting, audit and compliance firms, you will build and oversee the systems, processes, and team that enable Praxis to fulfill its mission of advancing redemptive entrepreneurship at scale. As a Partner at Praxis, you will take strong ownership and responsibility for leading strategy in your domain, building organizational insight, connecting your work to Praxis' economic engine, and growing our economic engine to support our expanding vision, team, and flywheel—producing outcomes that enhance Praxis' reputation and influence in the world. Recognizing that the future of both finance and operations are AI-driven functions, this Partner leads the charge in integrating artificial intelligence and automation throughout our operational ecosystem, positioning Praxis at the forefront of next-generation organizational efficiency. You will seamlessly bridge the gap between our current operational realities and our ambitious future aspirations, providing both the analytical rigor to ground our leadership team in practical constraints and the visionary thinking to architect scalable pathways forward. This role guides critical decisions around establishing international offices, navigating multi-currency operations, managing cross-timezone collaboration, and structuring charitable investment vehicles as needed. With oversight of finance, operations, systems, and technology functions, you will horizontally connect across teams to provide real-time insights into bandwidth allocation, strategic hiring priorities, and comprehensive process engineering that spans everything from contractor engagement to complex calendar coordination. As a key contributor to our most significant grant proposals, this role  will translate our mission into compelling financial narratives while serving as the right hand to our CEO and Managing Partners, integrating HR best practices, internal systems optimization, and team culture development to ensure that every strategic move is both operationally excellent and aligned with our long-term vision for impact.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Internal Operations (50%)

• With Praxis as a tech-forward nonprofit, continue to lead us into an AI & systems driven future, championing the organization-wide adoption of AI-driven analytics and automation, evaluating, selecting, and implementing cutting-edge tools for finance, forecasting, compliance, and reporting.
• Partner with the Finance & Operations Working Group to ensure that our tech-forward team is operating with the best software and tools as they complete their work. 
• Play a primary partnership role in organizational design, working to shape job descriptions with other operators on the team and develop our overall hiring process and planning.
• Bring an org-wide view of finances, strategy, and team bandwidth to each vertical with special attention to those undergoing personnel changes or substantial growth.
• Work with our current operating team and partners to develop timelines, processes, and resource access to new venture partners so that they can scale our work.
• Lead legal and compliance as it relates to nonprofit law, trademarks, and more with a particular eye to our global expansion, with our pro-bono legal team
• Lead and manage the team in designing the overall enterprise systems architecturally and bringing best practices in the business intelligence field to Praxis, to help us manage our CRM functions and project management
• Provide strong leadership and professional development to the operational team across every vertical, especially to the top operator(s) in each
• Lead a monthly Finance & Operations team meeting that helps navigate operational decisions, cultural direction, etc.

Financial Management (50%)

• Work with the CEO and Senior Manager of Finance & Operations to build, maintain, monitor and revise an annual $12M+ budget growing to $20M over the next 4 years, including detailed program budgets built in collaboration with program leads
• Annually develop and maintain a rolling 3-5 year budget in close collaboration with each Initiative leader, while providing counsel to the CEO and Managing Partners on resource allocation
• Provide strategic financial guidance to Partners and insights on expenses and budgets - including risks and opportunities.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, forecasting and modeling processes to support decision-making and resource allocation, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
• Work with the development team to craft the financial and quantitative side of large scale proposals and grants that incorporate budgets, strategy, and key metrics and hires
• Partner with the Development team to connect our fundraising engine to our budgeting process and monthly cash flows, enabling real-time insights.
• Set up and manage to excellence the process to accurately manage restricted pools of capital across a variety of project deployment
• Deliver monthly monitoring of actual vs budget reports produced by our accounting firm Jitasa and quarterly reports to the Board of Directors along with analysis of those reports.
• Work with our external accounting team Jitasa to ensure total financial cleanliness, timely monthly financial closes including effective expense classification & reconciliation, a clean annual audit, team-wide expense reporting and reconciliation, and other processes related to 501c3 status and public reporting and filing
• Ensure annual auditing process is completed and in compliance with all required State reporting
• Inform the budget development of new initiatives including new product offering
• Ability to equip Partners and program level leaders with knowledge and analysis of expenses and budgets

Critical Competencies

• Alignment with Praxis' mission and vision for redemptive entrepreneurship
• 10+  years of experience or more in managing organizational finances, ideally nonprofit sector in a $10m+ growth organization
• Capacity to scaling operations globally in complex, mission-driven organizations with remote team management
• Fluent in financial modeling, scenario planning and sensitivity analysis
• Keen attention to detail and interest in building systems for scale
• Systems and technology thinker comfortable with designing and executing workflows in Asana, Airtable, various AI toolkits (OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude) and Zapier
• Strong Aptitude for accounting, budgets, and compliance
• Ability to think strategically about how to organize competing priorities without considerable oversight from the CEO

Additional Details

Location: Preference to candidates who can be based in NYC offices, second consideration for US-based candidates (with increased travel expectations and compensation differences)

Travel:

Regular travel required, including:

• Minimum of one week per month in NYC
• Quarterly team meetings at NYC HQ
• Annual Summit in Napa Valley, CA
• Key program events and global gatherings
• All travel expenses covered by Praxis

Reports to: CEO

• Salary of $165,000 to $205,000 (based on experience and location, with a special index towards candidates in the NY Offices 3-4 days/wk)
• Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families
• 5% matching 401k
• Flexible vacation policy

Cultural Alignment

The ideal candidate will demonstrate deep alignment with our mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship and our organizational culture, which includes shared rhythms such as daily team prayer and a company-wide weekly Sabbath, as detailed in our Rule of Life for Redemptive Entrepreneurs (rule.praxislabs.org). Most importantly, we're seeking a leader who combines operational excellence with a spirit of humility and service, contributing to our vision of building an organization that embodies redemptive principles in all aspects of its work.