Senior Manager, Program Finance

Accountabilities: As the lead finance partner for the program, you will guide financial strategy, strengthen financial management processes, and provide decision support across country operations and funding activities. Your responsibilities will include: Shape financial strategy and planning: Build and maintain multi-year financial models connecting program design, country sequencing, staffing, implementation timelines, delivery models, and funding requirements. Compare country and partner delivery models, including direct implementation, technical assistance, co-implementation, local partnerships, fiscal agents, and subcontracting. Analyze delivery costs, country-entry expenses, shared and indirect costs, cost recovery, affordability, funding runway, and multi-year commitments. Present practical alternatives when plans exceed available funding or create significant financial obligations. Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, budget revisions, and scenario planning to assess the financial implications of changes in geography, timing, staffing, and program scope. Develop proposals and funding strategies: Lead the financial development of multi-country proposals and partner budgets, translating program assumptions into credible cost structures that can be adapted to donor requirements. Advise program leadership and cross-functional teams on donor restrictions, cost recovery, flexible funding needs, and the financial commitments associated with proposed funding terms. Prepare financial narratives, analyses, and due diligence responses, while establishing consistent standards for proposal budgets, cost drivers, documentation, and review. Design financial frameworks for country entry and partnerships: Define the finance workstream for prospective countries and delivery models, including responsibilities, dependencies, timelines, decisions, and readiness requirements. Assess and design financial arrangements for fiscal agents, implementing partners, subrecipients, and other third parties, covering due diligence, budgets, payment structures, cash flow, reporting, reconciliation, controls, approvals, escalation, and transitions. Identify financial and operational constraints before commitments are made, present feasible options with their cost and risk implications, and develop tools and guidance that can be adapted across countries. Manage program finances and collaborate across teams: Establish consistent budget structures, activity codes, and reporting categories across the portfolio, aligned with the chart of accounts and planning systems. Lead regular financial reviews for each country and grant, covering actual spending, forecasts, funding runway, significant variances, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions. Oversee donor financial reporting and grant closeout in collaboration with Accounting and Grants and Compliance teams. Serve as the day-to-day finance partner to program leadership, coordinating assumptions, responsibilities, deadlines, and decisions across departments. Communicate financial findings clearly and strengthen colleagues' financial capabilities through practical tools, guidance, and ongoing support. Requirements The ideal candidate is an experienced finance professional who combines strong analytical capabilities with strategic judgment and the ability to support complex, multi-country operations. You should be comfortable translating program assumptions into financial recommendations, managing multiple funding streams, and collaborating with senior stakeholders. The following qualifications are expected: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least six years of related professional experience. Demonstrated experience leading financial planning, analysis, and management for complex programs, portfolios, or business units involving multiple budgets, funding streams, stakeholders, and planning horizons. Proven ability to build and adapt multi-year forecasts, financial scenarios, and cost-driver models using Excel. Strong ability to translate program and operational assumptions into budgets and recommendations, clearly explaining costs, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership. Working knowledge of restricted-grant management, proposal budgeting, donor financial reporting, cost recovery, indirect and shared costs, internal controls, and financial risk management. Experience assessing partner budgets and financial capacity or designing financial arrangements for partners, subrecipients, fiscal agents, or other third parties. Track record of improving financial processes across teams while managing concurrent workstreams and identifying dependencies, risks, and capacity constraints early. Ability to work effectively within a matrixed, multi-country organization, supporting both centralized and field-based teams. Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to make complex financial information accessible to non-finance colleagues. Important employment conditions: The preferred location is Washington, DC, but remote work from elsewhere in the United States is permitted. The position involves collaboration across time zones and travel to program locations of up to 10% of working time. Applicants must already be legally authorized to work in the United States. Employment visa sponsorship or transfer is not available. Expected start date: January 2027. Benefits The full-time position offers an annual salary range of $98,700–$110,000, with the final offer determined by role scope, program budgets, internal equity, qualifications, and prior experience. Additional benefits include: Comprehensive international healthcare coverage. Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options. Life insurance. Disability coverage. Retirement plans with employer matching contributions. Generous and flexible leave options. Additional employee perks provided through a reimbursement program.