Finance Officer

Helen Knoll joined First Nations as finance director in March 2005. She is responsible for all internal and external financial reporting, including periodic reports on grants, monthly reports to management, annual consolidated financial statements, special reports and analyses as needed. Helen coordinates the organization’s annual budget and audit. She manages accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, employee benefits, banking and all related functions.

During her 12 years working at CPA firms, Helen specialized in services to exempt organizations, including audits of financial statements, audits of organizations receiving federal funds and preparation of annual reports and applications for exemption for nonprofits.

Upon relocating to Colorado in 1997, Helen joined Resource Data International, a provider of economic information to the energy industry. As the controller, she adapted the financial systems and procedures to accommodate three acquisitions and a tripling of revenues in a two-year period. In 2001, Helen became controller of Family Tree, Inc., a community-based nonprofit, where she implemented systems and procedures to better track grant-related spending.

Helen received her MBA in accountancy from Golden Gate University, San Francisco in 1984. She was licensed as a CPA in New York in 1979 and in Colorado in 1997. Helen is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Colorado Society of CPAs.