Finance Manager LTE - GPA

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.

• comprehensive medical coverage with no premiums
• dental coverage with no premiums
• vision coverage with no premiums
• generous paid time off
• paid family leave
• foundation-paid retirement contribution
• regional holidays
• 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 FP&A team is responsible for partnering with program strategy teams (PST) and leadership to assess and optimize portfolios to achieve foundation goals, engaging with partners and grantees, and identifying and analyzing grants to maximize foundation impact.

Partner with program teams to optimize and allocate finite resources across portfolios to achieve foundation goals using a fluid capital market approach to fund priorities.

Engage in coordinated strategic and business analysis across funders and institutions with shared strategic objectives and strengthen partners to improve their capacity to execute.

Partner with Program Officers to assess value for money, identify and mitigate risk, and provide financial analysis to the program team in order to maximize grant impact.

This role will be posted 10/19 to 10/30. This role is a 9-month Limited Term Employment (LTE).

The Finance Manager role is responsible for providing business, financial analysis and modeling support to the Global Policy & Advocacy Division, with an ideal candidate having a proven track record of working in a cross-cutting financial role providing support to multiple stakeholders or programs, and experience within the International Development, Policy, Advocacy, and/or Communications sectors. This role will directly support our Global Policy, Advocacy, & Communications team to execute on their approved strategies.

This candidate will partner with other FP&A team members to support the division on grantee financial assessment and business case analysis, complex grant structuring, including financial due diligence, as well as building and managing key relationships. Other responsibilities include budgeting and financial planning, resource allocation, and supporting other foundation-wide priorities.

Provide support, financial analysis, and business advice to program teams and drive business case analyses in partnership with FP&A colleagues, program team members, and provide proactive feedback to program team members and potential partners related to factors such as grant structure, organizational effectiveness of the partners, business and pricing strategy and more. Lead ad hoc complex analyses and provide program leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management, forecasting and effective financial resource allocation and decision-making through the foundation’s financial and strategic processes.

Support annual budgeting and financial planning processes, including partnering with other FP&A team members, Program Officers and the Strategy, Planning and Management teams to translate business strategy into mid and long-range forecasts to produce detailed, dynamic 4-year budgets, as well as risk assessments and scenario modeling. Proactively support organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners, and partner with Program Officers to develop appropriate mitigating…