Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
State of Rhode Island
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Provides global financial planning leadership to strengthen Relief International’s budgeting quality, financial sustainability, and strategic decision-making.
- Leads the design, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of proposal budgets, country master budgets, cost allocation methodologies, and funding projections across Relief International’s country operations.
- Ensures financial planning supports informed decision-making, donor confidence, and organizational sustainability, while strengthening financial systems and practices across HQ and country teams.
- Works with a high degree of autonomy, providing expert financial analysis and guidance across multiple countries, donors, and funding models.
- Leads the development and application of standardized budgeting and financial planning tools.
- Works closely with senior finance, grants, and program stakeholders.
- Exercises professional judgment in complex, high-risk, and fast-changing operational contexts to identify financial risks, funding gaps, and strategic opportunities.
- Accountable for the integrity, consistency, and reliability of financial planning outputs across multiple countries, donors, and funding modalities.
- Provides authoritative financial guidance on complex, high-value, and high-risk proposal budgets and budget modifications.
- Collaborates with Program Development, Grants, and Finance teams to develop high-quality cost proposals aligned with project objectives and RI financial strategy.
- Acts as a focal point between HQ Finance, Program Development, Grants, and Country Offices on budgeting and financial planning matters.
Requirements
- Educated to degree level in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong understanding of donor-funded budgeting, financial planning, and compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience in proposal budgeting, budget management, and financial analysis within international NGOs or donor-funded organizations.
- Proven ability to work across multiple country programs with diverse donor requirements.
- Experience developing or applying cost allocation methodologies and financial planning tools.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with ERP or financial systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights.
- Excellent communication and relationship-management skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines with high attention to detail.
- Postgraduate qualification or professional certification (CPA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent) is desirable.
- Experience supporting organizational financial forecasting and pipeline analysis at regional or global level is desirable.
- Experience in systems automation or financial process improvement is desirable.
- Additional language skills (Arabic, French, or others) are desirable.
Benefits
- Will ensure the highest standards of behavior inside and outside of work promotes the values in RI’s code of conduct and safeguarding policies
- Will be a model for ethical conduct standards for other team members
- Will ensure own actions and the actions of the teams members they manage do not impact the safety of the RI team and the vulnerable communities we serve
- Will ensure external stakeholders are aware of RI conduct and reporting mechanisms
- Contribute to organizational learning by strengthening financial planning systems, tools, and guidance across RI.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial planningbudget managementfinancial analysiscost allocation methodologiesfinancial modellingExcelERP systemsproposal budgetingfinancial forecastingpipeline analysis
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsrelationship managementattention to detailability to manage multiple prioritiesprofessional judgmentcollaborationautonomystrategic decision-making
Certifications
CPAACCACFApostgraduate qualification