Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

GiveDirectly

Senior Manager in Strategic Finance at GiveDirectly building analytical infrastructure for financial decision-making. Partnering with leadership to enhance planning rigor in cash transfer programs.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and drive global budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, in partnership with finance business partners and programmatic staff.
Improve the tools and processes behind budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
Conduct financial analyses across Programs, Growth, Product, and Shared Services to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
Support initiatives such as cost-efficiency efforts, resource allocation analyses, and scenario planning.
Help leaders in the organization identify and answer high-impact financial questions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A structured problem-solver with 5–8 years of experience in a top-tier consulting, investment banking, private equity, or similarly rigorous environment.
Highly analytical — you use data to generate insights and drive decisions.
A clear, direct communicator — you cut through complexity and influence senior stakeholders with concise, well-structured thinking.
Technically fluent — you have exceptional skills with spreadsheets and dashboards, and you are excited to apply AI and automation to real analytical problems.
High ownership, low ego — you take responsibility for outcomes, prioritize ruthlessly, and follow through.
Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity — you enjoy working on problems that don’t have a clean answer yet, and you bring genuine intellectual energy to questions about resource allocation and organizational scale.
Systems-minded — you spot inefficiencies quickly and design processes, tools, or workflows that make teams run better at scale.
Motivated by impact — You are ready to apply the full weight of your strategic and analytical skills to an organization where better financial decisions translate directly into more cash reaching more people living in poverty.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

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Hard Skills & Tools

budgetingforecastingfinancial analysisdata analysisresource allocationscenario planningcost-efficiencyanalytical skillsAIautomation

Soft Skills

problem-solvinganalytical thinkingcommunicationinfluencingownershipintellectual curiositycomfort with ambiguitysystems thinkingmotivation by impactprioritization