The Finance Manager is a member of the FP&A team and is a dedicated, internal resource to the Global Policy and Advocacy program team. The Global Policy & Advocacy division leads the foundation's efforts to build strategic relationships with governments, private philanthropists, and other key partners to increase awareness, action, and resources devoted to global development and health. This includes the foundation's regional offices and strategic presence in Europe, China, and Washington DC, as well as a grant portfolio supporting cross-cutting policy research, advocacy, and select country-level delivery efforts.
The Finance Manager is responsible for developing and tracking annual and long-term financial plans and forecasting. May manage program’s investment pipeline through monitoring of execution, financial forecasting and advice to team members. Leads operational improvement initiatives aimed at streamlining investment development, approval, and monitoring.
Portfolio Management (30%) – optimize the foundation’s finite resources across portfolios to achieve foundation goals using a fluid capital markets approach to fund priorities:
- Perform analysis and provide leadership with strategic and financial information to support effective financial resource allocation and decision-making during strategy refreshes and reviews.
- Create financial monitoring tools, including workflow management and monitoring tools, and partner with teams to manage grant and contract spending.
- Identify operational and financial risks of executing against annual budgets and propose mitigating strategies to leadership.
Investments (45%) – assess value for money, identify and mitigate risk, and provide financial analysis to maximize investment impact:
- Perform financial and risk analysis to support investment-making and investment management. Partner with program teams to structure effective investments and develop appropriate mitigating strategies to manage risk.
Partners and Grantees (25%) – engage in coordinated strategic and business analysis across funders and institutions with shared objectives, and strengthen partners to improve their capacity to execute:
- Analyze business plans and examine the economics of a certain business; analyze the financial health of organizations through discussions with finance leaders and reviewing financial statements.
- Interact and communicate clearly and consistently with grantees and partners in the field.
- Knowledge of strategy development, business/financial planning, risk management, and general management practices
- Project management and coordination of multidisciplinary teams
- Strong analytics (especially financial modeling, investment/deal structuring)
- Knowledge and experience regarding relationship management
- Knowledge of risk management and due diligence
- Knowledge of systems and processes related to financial management
- Ability to communicate complex financial concepts to partners with diverse backgrounds, including leadership, program staff, grantees and other foundation operational resources
- Prior experience working in a multilateral organization or development finance institution preferred
- Bi-lingual English/French speaking would be beneficial in this role