Finance Program Manager, Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs

PURPOSE OF POSITION

The Finance Program Manager provides strategic financial leadership, oversight, and business partnering across World Renew’s Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs (HEA) portfolio, with primary responsibility for International Disaster Response (IDR) and additional support to Disaster Response Services (DRS) and Refugee Sponsorship & Resettlement Programs (RSRP).

The position serves as the primary finance focal point for HEA, ensuring sound financial stewardship, donor compliance, internal controls, financial monitoring, risk management, partner capacity strengthening, and effective financial management throughout the project lifecycle.

Working closely with the Director of Finance, the Head of Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs, country offices, implementing partners, and institutional donors, the Finance Program Manager provides strategic financial analysis and guidance that supports informed decision-making, strengthens financial accountability, mitigates risk, and promotes effective stewardship of humanitarian resources.

The position has primary responsibility for financial oversight of World Renew’s Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) portfolio while also supporting institutional grants, humanitarian appeals, consortium awards, emergency response funding, and future donor-funded initiatives across the HEA portfolio.

As the principal financial liaison between the Finance Department and HEA, the position strengthens financial systems, improves internal controls, supports organizational learning, and promotes continuous improvement in humanitarian financial management across World Renew.

We do not discriminate based on disability, culture, ethnicity, or gender, and welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide strategic financial management and oversight across the Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs portfolio, with primary responsibility for International Disaster Response.
• Monitor portfolio financial performance, expenditure trends, forecasts, burn rates, budget utilization, and funding gaps.
• Develop and maintain executive financial dashboards that provide timely analysis of portfolio performance, donor balances, appeal funding, foreign exchange exposure, and financial risks.
• Prepare monthly portfolio financial reports, analysis, and recommendations for the Head of Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs, including emerging risks and actions to strengthen portfolio performance and financial stewardship.
• Support annual budgeting, financial forecasting, and long-term portfolio planning.
• Collaborate with finance and program teams to develop, monitor, and analyze cost recovery budgets and strategies across the HEA portfolio, maximizing recovery of direct and indirect costs while ensuring compliance with donor requirements.
• Monitor humanitarian appeal funding, restricted and unrestricted balances, and funding utilization.
• Coordinate fund transfers across the HEA portfolio with Finance and monitor project cash flow requirements.
• Monitor exchange rate fluctuations and assess their impact on project budgets and portfolio performance.

Donor Financial Management & Compliance (15%)

• Serve as the primary financial focal point for institutional donor-funded grants across the HEA portfolio.
• Lead financial oversight of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) portfolio, including equity allocations, budget monitoring, donor compliance, financial reporting, and financial assurance activities.
• Support financial management of consortium awards, humanitarian appeals, emergency response funding, and other institutional grants.
• Review budget amendments, reallocations, financial reports, grant modifications, donor financial reviews, and grant closeout activities.
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