Senior Associate, Finance & Administration, AFGHS

Senior Associate, Finance & Administration, AFGHS

Operating in over 50 countries, Palladium is a global consulting and implementation company working in partnership with governments, businesses, investors, and communities to design and deliver solutions that create lasting positive impact. We address some of the world's most complex challenges across infrastructure, economic growth and natural capital, health, energy, climate and environment, and digital transformation—strengthening systems, institutions, and markets to support inclusive and sustainable development.

Our more than 2,100 staff worldwide work as trusted advisors across diverse contexts, combining deep technical expertise, implementation techniques, and innovative technology to deliver locally informed, client-focused solutions that help organizations achieve measurable, sustainable impact. Palladium is part of GISI's global family of companies, which aims to create solutions for the world's most complex challenges. With annual revenues of $14 billion, GISI's approximately 15,000 employees are engaged in projects across 100 countries worldwide providing construction, program/project management, and engineering consulting services.

This Opportunity:
Palladium is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Finance and Administration to support AFGHS, a country-led, performance-managed transition approach to implementation that ensures continuity of investments, sustains lifesaving services, and strengthens integrated, government-owned health systems to maintain gains and achieve resilient, country-owned outcomes. AFGHS is a milestone-based global project funded by the U.S. Department of State, Global Health Security and Diplomacy division prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases, lead U.S. diplomatic engagement, and integrate global health security into national security and foreign policy.

The project will focus on continuity of service and measurable system functionality, with outputs tied to verifiable milestones. By reinforcing existing national systems, Palladium will improve service continuity and visibility, strengthen routine data use, accelerate detection and response to public health threats, and enable durable progress toward government ownership and long-term system resilience, with measurable gains anchored in priority health programs, including maternal and child health (MCH), malaria, HIV, Polio, and tuberculosis (TB).

The Senior Associate, Finance & Administration serves as part of the Project Delivery Unit (PDU) that is responsible for financial oversight and data analysis for specific activity buy-ins. The Senior Associate, Finance & Administration position supports the management of effective and efficient financial and compliance activities to deliver work in accordance with contractual obligations, company policies, local country settings, and client rules and regulations.

Senior Associate, Finance & Administration is a valued member of the PDU team completing a variety of tasks that are critical to high-quality project management.

Please note this is a project role with an end date of September 30, 2027, but has the option to be extended should additional client funding be made available and staff performance is excellent.

Location:

The position is based in Palladium's Arlington, VA office. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US as visa sponsorship cannot be provided. Palladium supports a hybrid work schedule of three days in the office and two from home.

Compensation:
The base salary for this position is expected to range from $76,000 to $80,000. Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium's business or organizational needs.

Reporting and Supervision:
This person will report to the Senior Manager, Finance & Administration. This role will not have supervisory responsibilities.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Learn to build budgets, forecasts, template design and maintenance, and other documents to ensure financial compliance with relevant policies and procedures;
• Support broader Finance team with budget entry into Palladium's Costpoint accounting system;
• Update milestone forecasts in Palladium's Cobra forecasting software;
• Run real-time timesheet analysis reports to align charging with forecasted labor projections;
• Support project financial management including forecasting,…