Regional Director, Finance & Operations

Splash is an international development organization founded in 2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. In 15 years, we have reached nearly 1,000,000 children in cities around the world. In 2019, we embarked on an exciting, five-year initiative, Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), focused on serving over 800,000 children in three major growth cities - Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar, Ethiopia and Kolkata, India - with improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure, WASH behavior change programs, and strengthened school-based menstrual health programs.

This is an exciting time for Splash as we pivot to new ways of working and aim to expand our impact to new cities across 3-5 countries.

Splash supports local leaders, institutions, and partners to drive lasting change on the ground. We believe that local capacity to solve problems at scale exists, and our job is to strategically support and magnify the impact of local governments, nonprofit and for-profit actors for the good of children and families across the cities in which we work.

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Full-time hybrid position based in Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia, or Kenya.

The Regional Director, Finance and Operations will lead financial and operational support across Splash’s Africa country offices. This role is responsible for strengthening systems, improving operational efficiency, supporting compliance, and partnering with country and regional leaders to ensure teams have the tools and guidance needed to deliver high-quality programs.

As a member of both the Global Finance Team and the Regional Leadership Team, this position provides leadership and management to ensure strong financial infrastructure, effective controls, and practical operating systems across country programs. The Regional Director will contribute to country strategic and operational planning and will be accountable for monitoring delivery against financial plans.

The role serves as the principal finance business partner to the Senior Director, Global Finance and the Executive Director, Africa, while ensuring alignment with Splash’s financial control environment, CFO standards, donor requirements, and local laws. The position also oversees operations and compliance practices that support effective implementation of country programs.

This role reports to the Executive Director, Africa, and works closely with the Senior Director, Global Finance.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who brings strong finance and operations judgment, enjoys building practical systems, and can support country teams with both strategic direction and day‑to‑day problem solving.

• Ensure country programs record accounting transactions accurately and on time.
• Ensure country program books are closed accurately and on time each month.
• Implement and maintain effective country program financial controls.
• Ensure compliance with local accounting rules and regulations, donor requirements, and Splash’s financial standards.
• Provide the regional team with clear visibility into the financial health of country programs and routine reporting to the Executive Director, Africa.
• Prepare and review internal financial reports, ensuring headquarters, regional, and country leadership are informed of financial issues and trends.
• Provide technical guidance and support to country offices as needed.
• Ensure new finance initiatives and policies are shared with country offices in a timely way and monitor implementation.
• Contribute to financial policy discussions, including the maintenance and development of country and global Finance Manuals.
• Support country finance and operations managers in ensuring annual country audits are completed cleanly, accurately, and on time.
• Coach and mentor in‑country finance and operations teams, with a focus…