Chief Financial Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Guide the formulation of Splash’s long-term financial strategy in accordance with organizational growth, government partnerships, and impact objectives.

• Assist Splash in developing a more refined capital strategy that differentiates between philanthropic funding, catalytic capital, government co-financing, donor-funded infrastructure, technical assistance, and sustainable public ownership.

• Collaborate with the CEO, Development team, and program leadership to evaluate how various funding sources can fulfill diverse needs throughout the organization.

• Facilitate financial modeling for government co-financing, donor matching requirements, phased implementation, working capital necessities, and long-term viability.

• Provide counsel to the CEO and Board on trade-offs concerning scale, risk, unrestricted reserves, cost recovery, donor restrictions, and financial exposure at the country level.

• Spearhead scenario planning and financial modeling for multi-year growth, which includes managing delayed disbursements, foreign exchange fluctuations, government payment schedules, implementation changes, and funding shortfalls.

• Develop financial models that take into account inflation, foreign exchange risk, country-specific cost estimates, and implementation timelines, ensuring that multi-year budgets are realistic and useful for decision-making.

• Supervise global budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and financial reporting across both US and international operations of Splash.

• Ensure timely, precise, and decision-relevant reporting for the CEO, management team, Board, Finance Committee, donors, and country teams.

• Enhance financial dashboards and analysis so that country, regional, and global teams can monitor burn rates against activities, deliverables, restricted donor budgets, and implementation progress in real time or nearly real time.

• Manage organizational cash flow, reserves, restricted and unrestricted funding, as well as liquidity planning.

• Collaborate with program and Development teams to guarantee that budgets, forecasts, and donor reports accurately represent implementation realities.

• Assist in budget modeling for new opportunities, encompassing overall project budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, match or co-financing assumptions, cost recovery, and implementation timelines.

• Ensure that grant budgets, cost recovery, indirect cost allocation, and donor reporting are rigorous, transparent, and aligned with Splash’s operational model.

• Support the design and financial oversight of government co-financing agreements, including contribution models, annual work plans, budget alignment, and fund flow options.

• Evaluate the financial implications of government-funded implementation, direct government procurement, contractor payments, cost-share commitments, and delayed public disbursements.

• Collaborate with country teams to ensure that government co-financing commitments are financially sound, well-documented, appropriately accounted for, and monitored.

• Support financial analysis related to public-sector ownership, operations and maintenance, and the long-term transition of responsibilities to government systems.

• Ensure adherence to US nonprofit regulations, donor compliance, accounting and audit standards, and relevant international financial regulations.

• Oversee financial operations across multiple countries and entities, including registration, statutory compliance, local audit requirements, payroll, tax, banking, and accounting practices.

• Manage VAT, withholding tax, recoverability, exemptions, and other country-specific tax matters that impact donor budgets, infrastructure delivery, and local contracting.

• Lead the annual audit process and maintain relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, legal consultants, and other technical experts.

• Uphold strong risk management practices across global financial operations, including internal controls, segregation of duties, fraud prevention, procurement controls, and documentation standards.

• Develop and maintain robust financial systems, policies, processes, and internal controls that support a growing global organization.

• Enhance financial technology, reporting tools, data integrity, and cross-country accounting processes.

• Foster a culture of financial accountability, transparency, and prompt decision-making.

• Lead, mentor, and strengthen Splash’s global finance team.

• Build financial capacity across country teams and among non-finance leaders to ensure budget ownership is distributed and disciplined.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 15 years of progressively senior financial leadership experience.

• Extensive experience in global financial management, ideally within an international nonprofit, NGO, foundation-funded entity, development finance institution, or mission-driven organization operating across multiple countries.

• Familiarity with international accounting standards and practices, such as IFRS and/or IPSAS where applicable, donor compliance, grants management, restricted funding, audits, internal controls, and multi-entity financial operations.

• Proven ability to lead financial strategy in complex operational environments.

• Experience in low-income or lower-middle-income country contexts is strongly preferred.

• Practical knowledge of VAT, tax, multi-currency exposure, statutory compliance, procurement, and financial risk in international contexts.

• Experience in supporting government co-financing, public-sector partnerships, infrastructure financing, development finance, or blended finance is strongly preferred.

• Strong financial modeling, scenario planning, forecasting, and analytical capabilities.

• Demonstrated experience in constructing multi-year, multi-country budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, and conducting burn-rate analysis.

• Experience collaborating with Boards, Finance Committees, Treasurers, CEOs, and senior leadership teams.

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business, public administration, or a related field is preferred.

• CPA, MBA, or equivalent experience is highly valued.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial reporting systems.

• Experience with financial dashboards, accounting platforms, grant management tools, and reporting analytics is an asset.

🏝️ Benefits

• 18 days of paid time off, increasing by 2 days each year, up to a maximum of 28 days.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Wellness Fridays (reduced hours on Fridays).

• Two weeks of paid time off during the July 4th week and the last week of the year.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401K plan with a 3% match.