Senior Program Finance Analyst

The Senior Program Finance Analyst demonstrates a high-level understanding of project financials. The Analyst will monitor and analyze financial data to inform risk mitigation and provide timely, thoughtful financial insight to aid program management decisions. The Senior Program Finance Analyst will contribute to ensuring operational excellence and high-quality country support to our country teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with country teams and program managers, as part of the program management team, to perform the Monthly Budget review process and analyze project budgets, actual expenses, commitments, obligations, and burn rates and lead financial analysis to identify trends, flag potential issues, and recommend actions to senior management.
• Work closely with country accounting and operating teams and global accounting teams to ensure accurate expenditures are charged to the projects and posted in the financial system.
• Monitor the overall implementation of projects activities spend against approved work plans, project scope and approved budgets.
• Present budget variance analysis to program and country directors. Clarifying, explaining, and adjusting as needed.
• Provide detailed input for the preparation of financial reports for donors.
• Provide quality control for financial management of subawards including reviewing and processing subrecipient invoices and cash requests, with more in-depth monitoring when required.
• Contribute to the financial dashboard to monitor the financial health of the company, including profit/loss and G&A spending.
• Lead development of the department’s piece of the annual operating budget (corporate budget), including re-forecasting, and the quarterly reviews of annual operating budget progress for senior management (surplus/deficit meetings).
• Support in developing project budgets and realignment in collaboration with the program management team.
• Review and process Operating Advance Requests (monthly cash requests) from field offices or provide inputs as needed.
• Draft or revise financial sections of donor reports and coordinate team member input.
• In collaboration with relevant agility departments, assists in the development and roll out of training in operations to both global and country office staff.
• Develop and lead standardized processes for the team’s project implementation and for engagement with ThinkWell Agility departments to enable the technical team to optimally focus on content and knowledge development and delivery.
• Support in internal and external audits of project activities ensuring auditors queries and requests are handled promptly.
• Relationship management on project financial aspects with clients and donors.
• Support budget development for new proposals in collaboration with the business development and program teams.
• Provide other financial analysis as requested.

We Are:

ThinkWell core values are our fundamental organizational guiding principles. They define our corporate culture, influence our behavior at work and help us achieve our mission. Our values are:

Think big
Influence the conversation
Empower others
Be exceptional
Always question
Relate authentically
Evolve by learning

You Are:
ThinkWell core competencies are foundational skills and behaviors that align with our values and are expected of all employees.

An entrepreneurial, results-oriented ‘do-er’ with a willingness to take risk, think big and challenge conventional wisdom.

A change maker who reaches independent judgement with an open mind, influences the conversation, and seeks innovation.

Able to help create an empowering environment in which everyone feels free to take initiative, be accountable and fail intelligently (learn from mistakes).

A collaborative colleague who engages constructively with people from different cultures, orientations, and perspectives and maintains positive relations in a virtual world.

Principally motivated by a growth mindset, meaning the pursuit of knowledge, experience, and self-improvement. You always question and continuously learn.

Authentic, honest, direct, self-aware and open to giving and receiving feedback.

Requirements

1. Bachelor's Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field;
2. At least 7 years of related experience in donor-funded finance or accounting. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted;
3. Advanced budgetin