Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Hiring for Senior Finance Manager, FP&A – Polio Job at Seattle, WA Full Time

Foundation Summary

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education. As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

Group Summary

The Finance & Resource Planning (F&RP) Division is led by the foundation CFO and partners with our colleagues to invest resources wisely and boldly in service of people who need it most. We do this through improving the impact of our investments and people, protecting the foundation’s assets and brand, and enabling leadership to allocate resources wisely. F&RP leads enterprise planning and the associated governance processes to enable integrated planning across all strategies, functions, geographies, and operations.

The Finance, Planning and Analysis team is seeking an upbeat, collaborative Senior Finance Manager to provide business and financial support to the Polio Eradication Team in the Global Development Division. Key responsibilities include partnering with the program team on grantee financial assessment and grant investment structuring, including financial due diligence and organizational capacity building. Other key responsibilities include budgeting and financial planning, resource allocation, and foundation-wide projects.

The Senior Finance Manager must be successful at influencing through effective partnership and communication skills and should have experience using financial analysis, organizational due diligence, and modeling skills in advisory roles. Other critical skills for success include solution-orientation and a proactive approach to responsibilities. The ability to synthesize data and a good sense of humor are key, and most importantly, the candidate must be passionate about the foundation’s mission, particularly in addressing the gender and global health inequities that exist today. Financial experience navigating matrixed organizations and not for profit experience a plus. This role is based in Seattle and some degree of travel may be required.

We are seeking one Senior Finance Manager for each of the following initiative teams: Polio, Immunization, and Global Health Agencies & Funds (GHAF).

Client Group Summary

The Polio Finance team operates at the intersection of Finance & Resource Planning (F&RP) and the Polio Eradication team and plays a crucial role in investing the Gates Foundation’s resources wisely and boldly in impactful and innovative programs. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a major donor the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) whose mission is to eradicate polio from the remaining endemic countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The members of the Polio Finance team are embedded in the Polio Eradication PST, providing the financial expertise for their investment activities.

Core Responsibilities

Strategy & Financial Planning

• Perform analysis and provide leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management and forecasting, and effective financial resource allocation and decision-making through the foundation annual planning process.
• Work closely with leadership and Program Officers to translate strategy into long-term investment plans during strategy refreshes and reviews.
• Monitor actuals and forecasts against budget, identifying any major risks.
• Identify operational and financial risks of completing annual budgets and propose mitigating strategies to the leadership.

Investment Analysis

• Perform financial and risk analysis to support investment making and management with an “Impact First” approach.
• Partner with Program Officers to structure effective investments and develop appropriate mitigating strategies to manage financial and organizational risks.
• Benchmark costs where possible and make recommendations and provide advice to Program Officers in negotiating investments and sizing payments.
• Analyze and develop business plans and perform financial sustainability analysis of organizations and specific projects.

Organizational Capacity

• Assess the financial and organizational health of organizations through financial statements review and discussions with CFOs and other finance staff.
• Lead organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners; develop actions plans to address findings and breakthroughs to measure progress towards organizational outcomes.
• Advise program team on investments to strengthen the organizational capacity of critical partners.

Projects

• Participate in complex transactions and special projects for PSTs with significant financial analysis component.
• Participate in cross-foundation projects to improve tools and practices in support of effective investment-making, pipeline management and operational excellence.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Technical and complex financial knowledge, including international finance and capital and currency markets.
• Strong analytics (especially financial modeling, investment/deal structuring).
• Knowledge of risk management and due diligence.
• Robust business analytical, quantitative, and modeling skills for broad variety of business models and transaction types.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that are appropriately right sized to relevant audiences.
• Ability to communicate sophisticated financial concepts to partners with a diverse set of backgrounds, including leadership, program staff, grantees, and other foundation operational resources.
• Synthesizing skills / ability to absorb and quickly distill significant amounts of information.
• Ability to read and analyze financial statements.
• Advanced Excel (pivot tables, financial modeling).
• Proven ability to think strategically.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work on multiple projects – or support multiple teams – simultaneously.
• Strong relationship management skills.
• Success working with individuals at all levels of an organization (very junior to C-Level executives).
• A proven ability to communicate and resolve issues effectively.
• Skilled in group problem solving and collaboration to resolve problems with sophisticated concepts involving internal and external partners in a dynamic setting.
• Ability to influence without formal authority. Proven ability to work with efficiency, diplomacy, and flexibility particularly as part of a team. Experience working on teams with diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.
• Ability to work independently with intellectual curiosity and a good sense of humor

Education and Experience

• Advanced degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

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Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Depending upon your work location, we may require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and any recommended booster doses. All employees based in the United States are to provide proof of full vaccination upon hire and any recommended boosters, subject to applicable laws.

Accommodations

If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to [email protected].

Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We’re committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve—in race, gender, age, cultures and beliefs—and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.