Director, Program Chief Financial Officer, Financial Planning & Analysis - Global Policy & Advocacy and Communications

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.

As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team
The Finance & Resource Planning (F&RP) Division is led by the foundation CFO and partners with our colleagues to invest resources wisely and boldly in service of people who need it most. The Finance, Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team provides business and financial support to program strategy teams (PSTs) across the foundation, maintaining dedicated client relationships as an embedded member of a client team.

The FP&A team is responsible for optimizing portfolios to achieve foundation goals, strategic financial analysis and modeling, engaging with partners and grantees, and identifying and analyzing grants to maximize foundation impact.

• Strategic Finance:
Work with the offices of the president of GPA and Communications and lead annual planning for your divisions, forecasting throughout the year, and multi-year financial planning across portfolios.

• Portfolio Management:
Optimize finite resources across portfolios to achieve foundation goals using a fluid capital market approach to fund priorities. This includes working with teams to identify trade-offs.

• Partners and Grantees:
Work with program teams to engage in coordinated strategic and business analysis across funders and institutions with shared strategic objectives and strengthen partners' capacity to execute.

• Grants/Investment Management:
Assess value for money, identify and mitigate risk through milestones, and provide financial analysis to enhance grant impact.

Your Role

The Program Chief Financial Officer (PCFO) will act as a leader for all financial management work in programs creating a deeper alignment between finance functions and program strategy leads, operations, and business support staff. The PCFO is responsible for all major program financial functions and processes, serving as the key interface between PST leadership and other F&RP functions. Additionally, the PCFO collaborates with the CFO on foundation-wide initiatives and will act as an in-house authority on an agreed upon functional need (e.g., partner organizational effectiveness, modeling work, business development, costing etc.).

In this role, the PCFO will lead annual planning, forecasting, and portfolio optimization efforts, translating program strategy into clear financial priorities, tradeoffs, and resource-allocation decisions. The PCFO will also provide strategic financial counsel to program leadership, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and execution challenges to support timely, data-driven decision-making. Managing a team of FP&A professionals deployed to their aligned program(s), this role will strengthen FP&A capabilities and provide an enhanced level of service and accountability to PSTs and regional offices, while ensuring good stewardship of foundation resources.

This position reports to the CFO and sits on the program leadership team(s) based on client alignment, as well as a member of the foundation's senior leadership forum.

This position supports the grant and investment strategy for the Global Policy & Advocacy and Communications divisions at the foundation. The mission of the Global Policy & Advocacy (GPA) division is to understand and shape the public policy debates affecting the foundation's work, build support for its major program and policy objectives, and develop partnerships and alliances that can advance the foundation's objectives nationally and…