Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

ABOUT SPARK MICROGRANTS

Spark MicroGrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. Spark has worked in 1000+ villages in 6 countries and has pioneered a community-driven development model in sub-Saharan Africa. Spark works with NGO and Government partners to scale the model's adoption and impact on rural communities - on their own terms. Our model combines facilitated community meetings with a small, discretionary grant to catalyze local action and institution building. Read more about our Approach, Impact and Values on our website.

OVERVIEW

The Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) will bridge the gap between high-level vision for new partnerships and funding relationships and the creation of realistic budgets, reports and financial narratives that meet donor needs and clearly communicate the relationship between outcomes and funding. They will have deep experience in financial analysis, reporting, systems and tools, and are equally comfortable estimating high level information and building detailed models to support financial analysis and decision making. This role is an individual contributor and is a hands-on producer of value-added financial analysis, modeling, and reporting, and will report directly to the CFO. The incumbent will collaborate with senior leadership, and work extensively with the fundraising team on donor and Board deliverables and on helping the organization and its stakeholders understand the financial impacts of new projects and partnerships.

They will also lead enterprise functions including risk management and cash forecasting, and lead key aspects of financial operations on behalf of the CFO. They will implement effective tracking and monitoring of Global and US operations OKRs, metrics and customer deliverables, and ensure appropriate follow-up and communication with stakeholders.

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