Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis

Overview

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth,its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC combines the power of more than3 million member sand online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

Asan international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is workingto address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges,andadvanceinnovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.

Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace. Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, London, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt.

Ltd.).

Supportedbyourmembers and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, andexpertisetogether for a common purpose:to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.

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This position can be based in any NRDC office (Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Santa Monica, CA, or San Francisco, CA), with preference for NRDC's US office.

The Financial Planning and Analysis Team is part of the Accounting and Finance Department, which reports to the Chief Financial Officer. The team is responsible for i) the development of annual budgets and multi-year forecasts to support strategic decision making and resource allocation across the organization for both NRDC (c3) and NRDC Action Fund (c4) and ii) the enhancement of NRDC’s existing financial management framework, processes, and tools to meet the organization’s evolving needs.

In addition, the team provides ongoing reporting and analysis of NRDC’s operating results to the Executive team and the Board of Trustees, and monitors and manages budget variances, liquidity position, and cash flows.

In addition to financial management functional expertise, the ideal candidate should have change management experience, a continuous improvement mindset, and a stakeholder engagement, solution-driven orientation to help drive NRDC’s increasing focus on more strategic, data-driven decision-making, risk management and predictive analysis and the alignment of resource allocation with strategic priorities.

The position you are applying forispart of the bargaining unit represented by The Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG /The Newsguild-CWA Local 32035).

• Support the annual budget process and forecasting including preparation and collection of budgets and forecast templates for use by budget owners and organizing financial information and inputs into financial systems
• Maintain approved budget adjustments and reforecast information in the financial systems; ensure that changes flow to end user systems and are timely and accurate
• Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate annual budgets to functional budget owners

• Assist with the production of the monthly and quarterly financial performance and budget reports.
• Monitor and report on occupancy and salary variances; work with HR to resolve headcount budget discrepancies and ensure relevant FTE updates are reflected across finance systems.
• Support analyses of historical budget data and help with providing trend analyses
• Prepare routine journal entries for reclass process