Temp - Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, Country Offices

Gates Foundation

9d • Remote

About The Position

As the employment agency hiring temporary workers to be assigned to the Gates Foundation, we are responsible for direct hiring and seeking candidates for the following temporary role at the Foundation. AgileOne designs and develops global workforce and procurement solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. Our focused and consultative approach provides solutions that streamline business processes and deliver efficiencies to human resources, procurement, and suppliers.

The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives.

The Team
The FP&A team strives to use common tools and approaches in the work we do to consistently support program teams and operations and to facilitate cross-FP&A process improvement, collaboration and support.

Our Mission
Through a team of professionals committed to stewardship and organizational effectiveness, FP&A, together with its Finance & Investments colleagues, supports foundation leadership, PSTs and programmatic Functions, Grantees/Vendors and Operations in.
Making Strong Investments and monitoring effective, high ROI investments,
Assessing and enhancing the health of strategic partners,
Planning and monitoring team spending, and
Improving financial and planning processes and systems.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of demonstrated experience.
• Strong analytical acumen, especially financial modeling and investment/deal structuring.
• Proficient with Excel and other analytic tools.
• Detailed knowledge of risk management and due diligence.
• Robust analytical, quantitative, and modelling skills for broad variety of business models and transaction types.
• Detailed knowledge of how to communicate sophisticated financial concepts to partners with a diverse set of backgrounds, including leadership, program staff, grantees, and other foundation operational resources.
• Detailed knowledge of how to synthesize skills, how to absorb, and quickly distill significant amounts of information.
• Strong ability to read and analyze financial statements.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work on multiple projects, or support multiple teams, simultaneously.
• Strong relationship management skills.
• Significant experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and business case development.
• Significant experience implementing and using financial processes and systems.
• Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience experimenting with AI tools, particularly Claude, is a strong plus and but not required.

Responsibilities

• Provide business and financial support to a country offices and programs, requiring day-to-day involvement in financial planning and analysis, operating plans, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and communicating the results of these business processes.
• Ensure the systems and processes are in place to provide timely financial and rigorous reporting, building a financial function that fully meets current needs and is capable of scaling quickly as the organization continues to grow and evolve.
• Responsible for budgeting and financial planning, resource allocation, and supporting other foundation-wide projects.
• Support the team primarily in three areas: investment reviews, partner due diligence, and portfolio management.
• Perform investment analyses inclusive of organizational due diligence, grantee/contractor budget reviews, subsequent payment reviews, and ad hoc related work to investments made by the program teams supported.
• Perform financial and risk analysis to support investment making.
• Lead organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners; develop action plans to address findings and breakthroughs to measure progress towards organizational outcomes.
• Assess the financial and organizational health of organizations through financial statements review and discussions with CFOs and other finance staff.
• Analyze and develop business plans and perform financial sustainability analysis of organizations and specific projects.
• Structure effective investments and develop appropriate mitigating strategies to manage financial and organizational risks.
• Make recommendations in negotiating investments and sizing payments.
• Advise on strengthening the organizational capacity of critical partners.
• Internal financial reporting and analysis in support of strategic resource allocation, internal budget management, pipeline management, forecasts, and budgeting.
• Provide support to financial presentations to program team leadership using internal systems such as INVEST and Power BI

Benefits

• Placement within the compensation range will depend on a candidate's job related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level