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. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The Finance Manager will be based out of our Nigeria Country Office (NCO), in Abuja, and be part of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team that is responsible for optimizing portfolios to achieve foundation goals, engaging with partners and grantees, and identifying and analyzing grants to maximize foundation impact. Note this is an individual contributing role.
Areas of focus include:
- Portfolio Management: Optimize finite resources across portfolios to achieve foundation goals using a fluid capital market approach to fund priorities.
- Partners and Grantees: Engage in coordinated strategic and business analysis across funders and institutions with shared strategic objectives and strengthen partners to improve their capacity to execute.
- Grants: Assess value for money, identify and mitigate risk, and provide financial analysis in order to maximize grant impact.
The Finance Manager is primarily responsible for providing strategic financial and business support to the NCO as well as potentially support work more broadly within Africa.
The postholder 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 present key takeaways to a non-finance audience is 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.
Your Role
The Finance Manager will provide business and financial support, requiring day-to-day involvement in financial planning and analysis, operating plans, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and communicating the results of these business processes. A particular focus of this role is structuring complex grants and investments and conducting organizational due diligence and capacity building assessments of key grantees and partners. You also 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. You are also responsible for budgeting and financial planning, resource allocation, and supporting other foundation-wide projects.
This is a limited-term position (LTE) until 31 December 2027, based at the foundation’s NCO in Abuja, reporting to the Deputy Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Country Offices. Relocation will not be provided.
What You’ll Do
The selected candidate will be responsible for the following tasks:
- 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.
- Create financial monitoring tools and financial planning tools, including workflow management and monitoring tools, and partner with programmatic teams to manage grant and contract spending.
- Identify operational and financial risks of executing against annual budgets and propose mitigating strategies to leadership.
- Perform financial and risk analysis to support investment making and management with an "Impact First" approach.
- Structure complex grants and investments, providing advice to Program Officers on investment design, payment sizing, and risk mitigation strategies tailored to the specific organizational and programmatic context.
- Benchmark costs where possible, 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.
- Assess the financial and organizational health of grantee organizations through financial statement review and direct engagement with CFOs and other finance staff, with an emphasis on identifying both risks and opportunities for organizational strengthening.
- Lead organizational assessments and due diligence of key grantees and partners, develop action plans to address findings, and track progress toward organizational outcomes.
- Communicate the findings and results of the resource allocation processes to internal customers in a manner best suited to the make-up and needs of the audience.
- Advise program teams on investments to strengthen the organizational capacity of partners, identifying structural gaps and recommending targeted support.
- Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.
Your Experience
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience, with at least 10 years of relevant senior-level experience in strategic financial analysis, financial planning, or investment management, in a high-volume and fast-paced environment.
- Significant experience in financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, business planning, and business case development.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with demonstrated expertise in financial modeling, investment structuring, and evaluating complex financial transactions and business models.
- Demonstrated experience conducting organizational due diligence, financial risk assessments, and capacity assessments, including analyzing financial statements and engaging with senior finance leaders of partner organizations.
- Strong understanding of financial and operational risk management, with the ability to identify potential risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
- Experience assessing organizational financial sustainability, developing business plans, and identifying opportunities to strengthen financial and operational capacity.
- Proven ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for diverse audiences, including senior leadership, program teams, and external partners.
- Strong business partnering, relationship management, and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and with stakeholders from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize large volumes of complex information, identify key insights, and support strategic decision-making.
- Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and support multiple teams and initiatives simultaneously.
- Experience implementing, improving, and using financial systems, processes, and reporting tools to enhance operational efficiency and financial oversight.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial analysis tools, with familiarity with AI-enabled tools and their application to financial analysis and business processes.
- Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations.
- A strong commitment to the foundation's mission, with an interest in advancing equitable health and development outcomes across Nigeria and the broader Africa region.
Other Attributes
- Comfortable in a wide range of cultural, geographic and operational situations, demonstrating culturally sensitive behaviour with a diverse range of people and high standards of personal integrity.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
Application deadline: 19 November 2026
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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.
Candidate Accommodations
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process—such as an ASL interpreter, alternative interview format, or physical accessibility support—we’re happy to help. Please contact [email protected] with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.
Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all 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.