Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer

About Mobile Loaves & Fishes

Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a social outreach ministry that has been empowering communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless since 1998. Founded in Austin, Texas, the organization serves its homeless neighbors through three core programs: Truck Ministry, Community First! Village, and Community Works. Often referred to as the most talked about neighborhood in Austin, Community First! Village is a 51-acre master planned development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. We are now embarking on a new phase of community expansion, adding more than 1400 new neighbors over the next 5-10 years.

About the Role

Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is seeking a mission-driven, strategic leader to serve as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of our rapidly growing organization. In this pivotal role, the CFO will steward the financial and operational health of MLF, ensuring systems and resources align with our organization's vision to empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.

The CFO will oversee the organization's financial strategy and accounting operations, ensuring financial accuracy, transparency, operational excellence, and exceptional customer service, while partnering with the Innovation Team to leverage technology, data, and process improvements that strengthen organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Working closely with MLF's Executive Strategy Team and Board of Directors, the CFO will help position the organization for long-term sustainability while remaining deeply rooted in MLF's relational core values and Gospel-driven mission.

This is a full-time, exempt position reporting directly to the President. While typical hours are 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday, flexibility will be to meet organizational needs, including occasional nights and weekends. The CFO will office at Community First! Village, located at 9116 Hog Eye Road, Austin, TX 78724.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Financial Management and Strategy: 
  • Working closely with the President & Chief Operating Officer, lead the development and execution of the organization's financial strategy, ensuring alignment with short- and long-term goals. 
  • Oversee the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting, ensuring all financial resources are allocated effectively to achieve organizational goals. 
  • Provide insights on financial performance, cash flow management, investment strategies, and fundraising results to the Executive Strategy Team and Board. 
• Accounting Oversight: 
  • Supervise and mentor the Director of Finance, driving improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and financial controls. 
  • Maintain oversight of accounting systems, financial reporting, and compliance with nonprofit accounting standards. 
  • Leverage AI and emerging technologies to optimize processes and workflows within the accounting and finance area.
• Stewardship: 
  • Oversee the organization's stewardship of our assets, ensuring transparency, integrity, security, and effective management in alignment with organizational goals. 
  • Oversee the development and implementation of an endowment to support the long-term sustainability of the organization's operations and assets.
  • Cultivate external relationships to provide access to capital growth opportunities that fit the organization's risk profile.
  • Leverage data to enhance performance measurement, donor engagement, program outcomes, and operational efficiency. 
• Risk Management, Compliance, & Government Relations: 
  • Manage relationships with external legal counsel, ensuring the organization is represented appropriately in legal matters and identifying new or specialized firms as needed. 
  • Work with the Director of Finance to ensure the organization adheres to best practices in nonprofit governance, including proper risk management procedures, insurance coverage, and legal compliance. 
  • Help develop the Risk Management, Compliance, and Government Relations team to help orient MLF and CFV for long term sustainability and growth.
• Leadership and Team Management: 
  • In collaboration with the President & Chief Operating Officer, lead and develop high-performing teams across Accounting & Finance and other operational teams as , fostering a collaborative and mission-driven culture. 
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the Executive Strategy Team and Board of Directors, offering financial and strategic insights to guide organizational decision-making. 
  • Model Christian values, integrating faith-based, Gospel-driven principles into all decision-making and leadership approaches.   

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Principles

• MLF is a Christian faith-based nonprofit whose ideals and philosophy come directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As an organization, we strive to reflect this precept in our communications, both internally and externally.   
• Commitment to serving those who have experienced homelessness and personal alignment with MLF's vision, mission, core values, and goals. 
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field (CPA preferred).  
• Minimum of 10 years of senior financial leadership .
• Diverse experience spanning both for-profit and nonprofit organizations is strongly preferred, with exposure to faith-based organizations highly valued.
• Proven experience in overseeing cross-functional departments such as legal, data, IT, and other operational areas beyond finance and accounting.
• Strong understanding of nonprofit financial systems, including fund accounting, revenue streams, and donor-related financial reporting.  
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and manage cross-functional teams.  
• Expertise in financial analysis, budgeting, and reporting.  
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and data management best practices.  
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and implement strategies that enhance operational effectiveness and service delivery.
• High level of integrity and dedication to the organization's Christian mission and values. 
• Must have a valid driver's license. 

Work Environment & Physical Demands

• Prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to frequently move around all phases of Community First! Village property.
• Occasional evening or weekend work may be for special events, financial close periods, or board meetings.

Benefits

• Day one 100% Employer paid, Health, Dental, Vision, Life, STD & LTD Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off & Holiday Pay
• Matching 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Corporate Discount Program
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Partnership Benefits

MLF VISION

We empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.

MLF MISSION

We provide food and clothing, cultivate community, and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need.

GOALS

• Transform the way people view the stereotype of those who find themselves homeless
• Reconnect the homeless to self, family and community
• Help the chronically homeless rediscover and utilize their God-given talents to do purposeful work
• Connect human to human, heart to heart through the fellowship of food and hospitality
• Inspire people into a lifestyle of abundance by giving their best first

BELIEF STATEMENTS

The vision is supported by belief statements centered on our belief that homelessness is the result of a profound, catastrophic loss of family:

• God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life
• By virtue of being created by God in His image, we are all called to live in community and relationship with Him through each other
• The family is the original cell of social life
• You shall love your neighbor as yourself
• All members of the human family are equal in dignity
• The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. Gen 2:15

CORE VALUES

MLF is committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes relational connection. We believe there is opportunity in every aspect of our work to be relational in a highly transactional world. In this culture, transactions are means to relational ends, not the other way around.​

​​This begins with the countercultural love poured out by Jesus Christ and grows as imperfect individuals strive to show this love to each other human-to-human, heart-to-heart.​

​​Each individual's openness to the journey of their own personal growth is essential in building our relational culture, and we believe this culture flourishes as we each continuously strive to more fully embody these four core values:

• Faith: We define Faith as the foundational belief that our world and all our work belong to God. This allows us to engage our work with joy and lightheartedness, knowing that we are not ultimately in control.
• Humility: We define Humility as rightly viewing oneself as a single piece of a grander story. This humility leads to a view of oneself that is neither too high nor too low.
• Generous Spirit: We define a Generous Spirit as a readiness to give more grace, mercy, and hospitality than is necessary or expected. This posture allows us to see others for who they are, not what they do.
• Integrity: We define Integrity as a wholehearted commitment to doing right by God, ourselves, and others. This wholeheartedness shows itself in consistently choosing honesty, responsibility and ownership in all actions and decisions.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

MLF is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen based on ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation in accordance with federal and state law.