Global Lead, Financial Consulting & Advisory

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To advance Teach For All’s 25-year vision, we are seeking a Global Lead, Financial Consulting & Advisory to lead the work that provides high-impact support to early stage entrepreneurs and network partners. This position is a critical senior role responsible for driving the long-term financial health and sustainability of Teach For All’s network partners globally. The Global Lead, Financial Consulting & Advisory will be responsible for providing expert financial guidance and strategic support to Teach For All’s network partners.

This role, reporting to and working alongside the Senior Global Director, Financial Consulting & Advisory, focuses on advising, coaching Heads of Finance/CFOs, CEOs, COOs, Boards, amongst other stakeholders, leading initiatives towards enabling stronger financial health and sustainability of partner organizations. The primary objective is to equip finance and senior leaders with the expertise and systems to navigate highly complex grants, mitigate systemic financial risks, and ensure the long-term solvency required for sustained organizational growth and impact across the network.

The role also focuses on learning from partner organizations to capture and share insights and best practices. The Global Lead, Financial Consulting & Advisory will also be charged with building relationships with and among finance staff members across the globe to create a vibrant and interconnected global community. In addition, this role will collaborate closely with a diverse array of internal colleagues across regional and functional teams, and will liaise with external stakeholders from a wide variety of national contexts.

Important to note, this role will provide consulting and advisory support, with no direct authority over Partners, who are independent organizations in their legal right with separate governance structures, hence critical skills would include ability to build strong relationships, maintain flexibility while providing best practice advice and support.

The Global Lead, Financial Consulting & Advisory will aim to build our partners’ financial strength and sustainability as measured by:

• Creation and execution of high-quality synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences, resources and tools that enable partners to set up, maintain, and evolve strong financial systems
• Feedback from CEOs, CFOs, and other stakeholders about the quality of support provided
• The vibrancy and connectedness of the network of heads of finance across regional contexts
• The financial health of our partner organizations - including their ability to ideally avoid and, where necessary, navigate cash flow issues; have clean audits; and manage complex grants and foster more financially sustainable pathways.

The Consulting team drives aggregate impact across the network by:

• Distilling and sharing insights
• Designing and facilitating meaningful learning opportunities and communities in virtual, in-person and blended spaces
• Providing tailored coaching and consulting to early stage entrepreneurs and current network partners
• Contributing insights on education, leadership, and system change to the broader global ecosystem

This role will be mainly focusing on the 3 core areas of
1) Coaching and Consulting Support,
2) Knowledge & Learning Experience Development and
3) Finance Communities facilitation. The responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Provide strategic financial consulting and advisory services and support to senior leaders and network partners, shaping and influencing budgeting, forecasting, financial strategy, risk management, and long-term financial planning.
• Act as strategic partner to partner CEOs and senior management, translating complex financial data into organizational strategy and influence structural decisions that impact organizational outcomes, enabling leaders to make informed decisions, to influence the organization- or network-wide outcomes.
• Guide and support partner staff and ESEs (Early-Stage Entrepreneurs) to s…