Senior Manager, Program Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary financial partner for the Syphilis-Free Start program during its multi-country expansion, while overseeing its existing portfolio.

• Develop and sustain comprehensive multi-year financial models that integrate program design, country sequencing, staffing, implementation timelines, delivery models, and funding sources.

• Evaluate and compare the delivery models of different countries and partners, including direct delivery, technical assistance, co-implementation, local partnerships, fiscal agents, and subcontracting.

• Conduct thorough analyses of delivery costs, entry expenses, shared and indirect costs, cost recovery, affordability, funding runway, and multi-year commitments.

• Direct the preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, revisions, and scenario planning.

• Spearhead the financial development of multi-country proposals and partner budgets.

• Provide guidance to leadership and cross-functional teams regarding donor restrictions, cost recovery, flexible funding needs, and proposed commitments.

• Establish finance workstreams for potential countries and delivery models.

• Evaluate and design financial arrangements for fiscal agents, implementing partners, subrecipients, and other third parties.

• Develop consistent budget structures, activity coding, and reporting categories throughout the portfolio.

• Lead regular financial reviews that encompass actuals, forecasts, funding runway, variances, risks, decisions, and necessary follow-up actions.

• Supervise donor financial reporting and grant closeout processes in collaboration with Accounting and Grants and Compliance.

• Serve as the daily finance partner for SFS leadership, coordinating assumptions, responsibilities, deadlines, and decisions across various teams.

• Clearly communicate financial insights and enhance colleagues' financial proficiency by providing practical tools and guidance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline along with a minimum of 6 years of pertinent experience.

• Proven experience in leading financial planning, analysis, and management for intricate programs, portfolios, or business units with diverse budgets, funding streams, stakeholders, and planning timelines.

• Proficient in constructing and refining multi-year forecasts, scenarios, and cost-driver models in Excel as assumptions evolve.

• Capable of translating program and operational assumptions into budgets and recommendations, while articulating costs, risks, and trade-offs to senior leaders.

• Solid understanding of restricted-grant management, proposal budgets, donor financial reporting, cost recovery, indirect and shared costs, internal controls, and financial risk management.

• Experience in evaluating partner budgets and financial capacity or creating financial arrangements for partners, subrecipients, fiscal agents, or other third parties.

• History of enhancing financial processes across teams while managing overlapping workstreams, including identifying dependencies and proactively addressing risks or capacity constraints.

• Ability to collaborate within a matrixed, multi-country organization to support both centralized and field-based teams.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.; Evidence Action cannot sponsor or assume sponsorship of a U.S. employment visa.

🏝️ Benefits

• International health care.

• HSA/FSA options.

• Life insurance.

• Disability coverage.

• Retirement plans with a matching component.

• Generous and flexible leave options.

• Other employee perks on a reimbursement basis.

• Remote work opportunities within the US.

• Up to 10% travel to program locations.