Responsibilities:

• Drives the development of team/and or division level annual budgets, working in conjunction with division and team leaders.
• Develop and maintain key reports for reporting performance against the budget and other
• Key Performance Indicators, driving divisional leaders’ accountability. Highlight any key challenges or opportunities influencing the division’s performance against goals.
• Analyzes monthly financial performance against forecast and budget, investigate variances, communicate findings and makes recommendations to divisional leaders.
• Develops strong working knowledge of the teams that they support and proactively advise leaders on financial issues.
• Advises teams on short-term and long-range budget planning issues.
• Performs periodic updated financial forecasts highlighting any key challenges or opportunities influence performance to goals.
• Works directly with program executives on financial analysis and modeling pertinent to their respective program areas and keep them aware of key financial issues.
• Champion of data integrity within the allocated divisional portfolio. Monitor and control entry of department-level internal allocation budgets.
• Advises teams members on cost principles and compliance issues.
• Participate in the division strategy in terms of allocation of internal resources.
• Participate in ad-hoc requests, cross-cutting projects, and analysis as needed.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 8 years of progressive financial planning and analysis experience.
• Experience in a global nonprofit organization would be a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics or relevant field from an accredited college or university. A master’s degree (MBA) would be a plus.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills and proficient in other Microsoft Office Suite applications including World, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication/presentation skills.
• Ability to model and synthesize complex financial information, operating and KPI data into appealing presentations (to a nonfinancial audience) to facilitate understanding of operational results and drive performance improvement decisions.
• Strong organizational skills with detail-orientation, good follow-through, and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment and build relationships with diverse departments, collaborators, and field staff.
• Ability to manage finances or budgets of multiple projects concurrently. Ability to quickly come up to speed on new concepts by synthesizing research for deeper analysis.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to persuade and influence different types of audiences (single contributor, middle management, and executive leadership).
• Strong business acumen.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is required.