Deputy Finance Manager RAPID
About The Position
The Deputy Finance Manager supports the Finance Manager in ensuring responsible stewardship of resources, strong financial accountability and risk management, and effective financial management systems, processes, and practices for the RAPID initiative and its partners. The role contributes to financial service delivery and helps identify and implement improvements that reduce CRS and partner exposure to financial risk while supporting high-quality programs for poor and vulnerable communities. The position supports emergency-response financial processes and controls, coordination with RAPID headquarters and country-program finance teams, financial reporting and reconciliation, monitoring of budgets and expenditures, audit-finding resolution, and development of program budgets. It is a remote-global role for candidates located wherever CRS is registered to work. Candidates should be willing and able to travel up to 25% and be able to live and work in difficult or stressful environments as agency needs dictate. Spanish is strongly preferred; CRS does not sponsor visas for remote employees. The role has no supervisory responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business Administration with accounting coursework, or an accounting qualification such as CPA, ACCA, or equivalent.
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar position.
- Substantial budgeting, budget and expense analysis, and accounting experience.
- Proficiency in English, both verbal and written.
- Proficiency with MS Office packages including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio, and with web-conferencing applications.
- Strong experience presenting and facilitating training on financial-management topics.
- Knowledge of local tax and regulatory reporting procedures.
- Excellent analytical skills and sound judgment and decision-making ability.
- Very good planning, monitoring, and organizational skills.
- Ability to act ethically in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics.
- Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented, and results-oriented approach.
- Ability to work collaboratively.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%, and capacity to live and work in difficult or stressful environments and serve wherever agency needs dictate.
- Ability to legally work in the location where the position is performed; CRS does not sponsor visas for remote employees.
Nice To Haves
- Spanish proficiency is strongly preferred.
- Master’s degree in a related field with a focus on Accounting.
- Professional certification in Accounting or a related field.
- Experience in an international NGO.
- Experience with and knowledge of relevant public-donor regulations.
- Experience with financial-reporting software.
- Experience managing a team of finance professionals.
Responsibilities
- Support implementation and monitoring of simplified financial processes, procedures, and internal controls in accordance with CRS policies, donor regulations, GAAP, and local laws for emergency projects.
- Ensure action plans are implemented following report reviews and other assessments.
- Coordinate with RAPID headquarters and country-program finance teams to promote efficiency and compliance across accounting, recording, reporting, and financial management, and maintain supporting documentation for audit trails.
- Reconcile the SF-425 federal financial report.
- Provide financial orientations and guidance to programs, administration, supply chain, and procurement, and work with RAPID country-program finance teams to resolve financial issues.
- Collaborate with country-program finance teams to ensure smooth financial operations.
- Monitor the receivable tracking register and take action on delinquent advances; lead monthly reviews of outstanding advances to vendors, subrecipients, and staff.
- Analyze financial data, recommend improvements to financial performance and compliance, identify weaknesses, and recommend mitigation measures.
- Provide global financial tracking to RAPID senior leadership, including estimated and obligated budgets, forecasts, and expenditures; coordinate budget realignments as needed and work with country programs to prevent overspending.
- Support timely and sustainable closure of audit financial-management findings.
- Support development of buy-in budgets that are reasonable, accurate, and adequately reflect the costs of required program activities.
Benefits
- U.S.-based staff receive medical, dental, life insurance, and vision coverage, plus a retirement savings plan.
- Benefits for staff employed outside the U.S. are based on the country of employment or the in-country office where the role is performed.
- Collaborative, mission-driven work culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
