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 than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of 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.

NRDC is an international nonprofit environmental organization addressing the world’s most urgent environmental challenges with science-based and enforceable solutions. Since 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver America’s foundational environmental laws and continues to lead in protecting environmental protections at local, state, federal and international levels. Our team works across the United States and around the world, with 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.).

Supported by our members 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. Learn more .

NRDC is seeking an Associate, Financial Planning and Analysis to work with the Finance team. 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.

Position Summary

The Financial Planning and Analysis Team is part of the Accounting and Finance Department, which reports to the Chief Financial Officer. The team develops annual budgets and multi-year forecasts to support strategic decision-making and resource allocation across NRDC (c3) and NRDC Action Fund (c4). It enhances NRDC’s financial management framework, processes, and tools, and provides ongoing reporting and analysis of operating results to the Executive team and the Board of Trustees.

The team monitors and manages budget variances, liquidity position, and cash flows.

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

The position is part of the bargaining unit represented by The Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG / The Newsguild-CWA Local 32035).

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Support the annual budget process and forecasting including preparation and collection of budgets and forecast templates for 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

Analysis and Reporting

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

Budget Modifications and Approvals by Budget Committee

• Maintain, capture, and track budget committee requests, decisions, and supporting documentation throughout the year
• Ensure relevant impact to budgets is captured end to end across financial systems

Ad-Hoc projects and Process Improvement

• Field ad-hoc requests and inquiries from Finance team and stakeholders
• Support various ad hoc analyses and organizational reporting
• Update and document changes to standard operating procedures and system processes within FP&A
• Support the Finance team on key process improvement initiatives led by senior Finance…