Finance Manager, US Program (LTE)

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 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.

• Portfolio Management: 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.
• Partners and Grantees: Engage in coordinated strategic and business analysis across funders and institutions with shared strategic objectives and strengthen partners to improve their capacity to execute.
• Grants: 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.

Your Role

The Finance Manager role is responsible for providing business, financial analysis and modeling support to the US Program 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. This role partners with other FP&A team members to support PSTs 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.

This position is a limited-term position for 12 months. Relocation will not be provided.

What You'll Do

• Provide support, financial analysis, and business advice to program teams and drive business case analyses in partnership with FP&A colleagues and program team members.
• Lead ad hoc complex analyses and provide program leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management, forecasting and effective financial resource allocation.
• Support annual budgeting and financial planning processes, including partnering with other FP&A team members, Program Officers and the Strategy, Planning and Management teams.
• Proactively support organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners.
• Cultivate and manage key functional relationships and partnerships with internal stakeholders.
• Lead forecast and portfolio allocation management for assigned PSTs.
• Create dynamic financial planning tools that support decision-making and communication with program leadership.
• Perform financial and risk analysis to support grant making and management.
• Partner with programmatic teams to manage grant and contract spending.
• Identify operational and financial risks of executing against annual budgets and broader planning horizons.
• Assess business plans and perform financial sustainability analysis of organizations and specific projects.
• Assess the financial and organizational health of grantee organizations through financial statements review.
• Drive data analyses to generate new insights on the grant portfolio.
• Structure grants to optimize cash disbursements in consideration of operational risks.
• Leverage tools and reports to plan and monitor workflow, forecast and payout performance.
• Participate in cross-foundation efforts to develop tools and standard methodologies.
• This position may require some travel, up to 10-15% of time.

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree with 7 years of financial planning experience, or equivalent years of relevant experience.
• Experience in the technology and/or educational technology sector preferred.
• Strong analytical acumen, especially financial modeling and grant structuring.
• Knowledge of risk management and organizational due diligence.
• Robust analytical, quantitative, and modeling skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read and analyze financial statements.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong relationship management skills.
• International finance experience/exposure preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills and data visualization experience preferred.

Salary Range: $143,000 to $214,600 USD.

Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.