Finance & Accounting Manager

Manager, Finance & Accounting

Reports to:

Fractional CFO Manages:
No direct reports

Location:

Remote U.S. (Eastern Time preferred, Central Time possible) Type:
Full-time Title & level:
Manager or Senior Manager Compensation: $90,000-$109,999 (depending on qualifications) Benefi ts:
Generous leave, health insurance, & retirement package, remote work facilitation

Start date:

January 2027, earlier preferred

About African Collaborative African Collaborative invests exclusively in African-led organizations, providing the critical, multi-year capital needed to help them create purposeful, locally rooted change. Less than 5% of global humanitarian assistance reaches locally rooted organizations, and only 1 in 4 dollars from U.S. foundations to Sub-Saharan Africa supports African-led organizations — closing that gap is the reason we exist. We advocate for structural transformation in philanthropy and development to promote equitable funding practices that shift resources to the front lines of impact.

Since launching in 2020, we have tested a bold hypothesis:
When African-led organizations are given flexible resources and the power to lead, impact returns multiply. We have funded 45 organizations across 15 Sub-Saharan African countries with unrestricted, multi-year grants and tailored support services. Our partners are improving maternal and child health outcomes, increasing young people’s access to education, and increasing income to youth farmers—amongst many other impactful solutions that prove that the future of sustainable African development is African-led.

When we started, our goal was to raise $10M over three years, with a larger goal of driving $50M+ in catalytic resources to African innovators by 2030. With a small but mighty team of 12 spread across the U.S. and fi ve African countries, we’ve committed $12.3M+ in flexible multi-year funding to 45 African organizations across 15 countries, and been featured in outlets such as the New York Times and The Guardian.

Having successfully launched our 2030 strategy, we are now in an exciting phase of growth. We are expanding our funding partnerships, deepening our investment in African changemakers, and ramping up our advocacy work to continue our mission and realize our vision at scale.

As part of African Collaborative’s growth journey, we are bringing our finance function in-house. The Finance Team will consist of a fractional CFO – who sets financial strategy and represents AC on the highest-level financial matters – and the Finance & Accounting Manager who will own all of the organization’s day-to-day finance work. As the Finance & Accounting Manager, you will manage everything from grant disbursements to vendor invoices to the accounting backbone that keeps AC’s fi nances accurate and audit-ready, and you’ll ultimately be responsible for building a finance function that is centered around our mission and key stakeholders.

You will be a proactive thought partner to all AC departments – Development & Partnerships, Programs, and People & Operations – in addition to the CFO, COO and Co-CEOs. This role requires making sense of numbers, budgets and variances, and sharing insights or recommendations to help facilitate decisions that uplift the effectiveness of our work. In addition, you will build out, implement and support key financial processes, from budgeting and cashflow management to internal and funder reporting.

This role is critical to African Collaborative’s success; you’ll be responsible for moving $4M+ in grants per year to over 45 African-led organizations, and helping us develop the fi nance processes and systems to scale our partnerships and support more grantees each year. We make grants across 15 countries, and have…