Finance Manager

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 Central Finance Planning and Analysis (CFP&A) Team strives to amplify impact through partnership and stewardship to effectively allocate and manage operating expenses and resources across the organization. CFP&A provides comprehensive FP&A business support to the foundation’s Operations Divisions and manages the organization’s operating expenses. By delivering insightful financial analysis and fostering strong partnerships, CFP&A plays a critical role in driving the foundation’s financial efficiency and supporting its strategic initiatives.

Role Summary

The Finance Manager role is responsible for providing business and financial analysis support to assigned Divisions, Operations teams and the Central Finance function. This role partners with teams on budgeting, financial planning and modeling, resource allocation and project assessments including complex multi-year infrastructure investments. This role is also responsible for proactively building and leading key relationships.

Core FP&A Responsibilities

Business Partnership: Forecasting & Reporting

• Lead annual budgeting and planning processes, including partnering with Operations and Program divisions and 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.

• Provide analytical support, financial analysis, and business advice to teams on their operating expenses.

• Cultivate and lead key functional relationships and partnerships with internal stakeholders.

• Lead forecast and financial management for assigned teams, including the monitoring of actuals and forecasts to budget, with risk assessment and produce variance analysis.

• Partner with teams to lead contract spending.

• If assigned a grant portfolio:

  • Assess the financial and organizational health of grantee organizations through financial statements review and discussions with counter-level partners and finance staff.

  • Structure grants to optimize cash disbursements in consideration of operational risks.

  • Leverage tools and reports to plan and monitor workflow, forecast and payout performance.

Strategy and Planning

• Lead analysis and proactively provide leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management and forecasting, and effective financial resource allocation and decision-making through the foundation’s financial and strategic processes.

• Develop and provide complex financial analysis to support the Operations Chief Financial Officer, Chief Financial Officer and/or executive leadership.

• Create and deliver dynamic financial planning tools that support decision-making and communication with leadership.

• Lead financial analysis including creating dynamic financial plans and dashboards to streamline organizational capacity and discussing with finance leadership.

• Participate in cross-foundation efforts to develop tools and standard methodologies in support of effective stewardship of operating expenses and operational excellence.

Data, Analytics and Other Projects

• Participate in complex transactions and special projects for teams with significant financial analysis requirements.

• Contribute to and expand the Central Finance team’s dashboard and data visualization reporting (e.g. Adaptive, Power BI, etc.), and serve as liaison to the central Data, Reporting and Analytics team to fully use the Foundation’s data infrastructure for operating expenses.

• Conduct data analyses to generate new insights on the foundation’s operating expenses, leading to improved allocation of resources and operational efficiency Create and support visualizations to support leadership and business partners.

• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications
You are a creative, thoughtful, and curious professional who has a strong track record of achievement in roles of increasing responsibility, and exceptional communication skills. You should be prepared to work across a diverse set of disciplines, bridging a wide range of expertise, with a demonstrated ability to work with agility, and diplomacy in a dynamic environment. Additionally, we seek:

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of financial planning experience, or equivalent years of relevant experience.

• Strong analytical acumen, especially financial modeling.

• Technical and complex financial knowledge.

• Robust analytical, quantitative, and modeling skills for a broad variety of transaction types.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills that are appropriately right-sized to relevant audiences.

• Communicates sophisticated financial concepts to partners with a diverse set of backgrounds, including leadership, program staff, grantees, and other foundation operational teams.

• Strong relationship management skills with demonstrated success working with individuals at all levels of an organization. Skilled in group problem-solving and teamwork to resolve problems.

• Objectively analyses and evaluates financial and data issues in order to form recommendations.

• Influences without formal authority and works with efficiency, diplomacy, and flexibility as part of a team with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.

• Advanced Excel skills.

• Advanced data management skills, including experience with databases, statistics and visualization tools.

• Expertise in developing, maintaining and managing dashboards and critical reports/visualizations, preferably with PowerBI and/or Adaptive Planning.

• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity.

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

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The salary range for this role is $125,000 to $187,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences where our offices are located, in Seattle, Washington D.C., and Boston (Cambridge). The range for this role in these locations is $136,100 to $204,300 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary range between the minimum and the midpoint salary range. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.