Finance Manager

Donor Finance Manager

On site, New Delhi, India

Organizational Profile:

Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality through education. We are achieving this goal by providing support during two of the most critical time periods in a child's education: primary school for literacy acquisition and secondary school for life skills acquisition, particularly for girls.

Our Literacy Program trains and coaches teachers, creates quality books and curricular materials and establishes libraries filled with diverse children's books in local languages that can be enjoyed at school or home. Our Girls Education Program helps girls succeed in secondary school and negotiate key life decisions by supporting them as they increase their resilience, leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. We do so by providing girls with positive role models, life skills classes, opportunities for mentorship and peer support, and family, school, and community engagement.

We also deliver remote solutions that leverage local broadcast media networks and internet-based technologies to facilitate learning beyond the classroom. Room to Read collaborates with local communities, partner organizations and governments to test and implement innovative models that can be integrated into the education system to deliver positive outcomes for children at scale.

To date, Room to Read has benefited more than 39 million children and has worked in more than 192,000 communities and 24 countries, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Grenada, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, Vietnam, and Zambia. Room to Read plans to benefit 40 million children by 2025. Learn more at www.roomtoread.org

Position Overview:

The Donor Finance Manager is a key member of our international Finance & Legal team, based in Delhi with Room to Read Global Services Pvt. Ltd. This full-time role reports to the Director, Finance and Accounting, and involves developing and tracking donor proposals and reporting across a diverse portfolio, consolidating, and tracking global project information, developing programmatic cost structures, and supporting Global Finance based in California on analysis, forecasting, and ad-hoc global financial analysis. The role requires organizing data to support the Awards Management process and thorough understanding of the Grants Lifecycle process. The Manager collaborates closely with the Development, Operations, and Global Finance Departments.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Donor Proposal and Reporting:

• Leverage financial systems to prepare donor proposal budgets and financial reports across all geographies. Ensure compliance with bi/multi-lateral donor reporting requirements.
• Maintain and update donor finance trackers and the proposal pipeline.

Donor Finance Fundraising Resources and Pricing:

• Develop cost structures to assist in finalizing donor proposal costing/pricing.
• Collaborate with the Development team to enhance fundraising efficiency in grant proposals and reporting.
• Develop and manage financial information resources and tools for fundraising in partnership with the Development team.

Geographic Expansion Projects:

• Assist Project Managers during Annual Planning with budget input in Adaptive (cloud-based planning software) by providing necessary training.
• Support the reporting and financial analysis of geographic expansion projects.

Support in Monitoring Grants Lifecycle Process:

• Organize data to support the Awards Management process.
• Become a subject matter expert (SME) on the Grants Lifecycle process to ensure compliance, timely budgeting & reporting, securing resources, etc.

Global Finance Reporting & Analytics

• Collaborate with VP Finance and Director Planning and Analysis with excel based forecasting and resource analytics for fundraising efficiency.
• Support CFO and Global Finance team on ongoing ad hoc global financial analysis, reporting and new data visualization.

Cross Team Capacity Development

• Enhance organizational capability, including capacity building among field finance and country office teams.
• Provide cross-training for finance team members on proposal development.
• Support Project Managers through capacity-building workshops and training.

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor, Director of Finance & Accounting, or Vice President of Field Finance and Accounting.

Qualifications:

Required

• Chartered Accountant or MBA (or equivalent)
• 7+ years in finance and grant management
• Non-profit organization experience
• Skilled in relationship-building with diverse groups
• Expertise in financial reporting and complex modelling (Excel/EPM tools)
• Experience with multi-lateral/bi-lateral grant budgeting.
• Effective in fast-paced, adaptable, growth-oriented environments
• Ability to enforce policies with flexibility.
• Influence without formal authority.
• Detail-oriented, organized, results-driven.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building, and communication skills
• Proficient with multi-cultural teams and different time zones
• Experienced in process and control implementation.
• High proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Fluent in English
• Capable of managing multiple priorities and taking initiative
• Willingness to travel internationally and work flexible hours.

Preferred:

• Experience with organizational behavioral change for process improvement and efficiency building.
• Should have sound accounting knowledge.
• Experience using budgeting software and business intelligence tools.

Compensation:

Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, fun, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the world through literacy and gender equality in education.

Application Procedure:

Please visit Careers (myworkdayjobs.com) (no letters, calls, faxes, or drop-ins). We regret that we cannot respond to all applicants personally due to the high applicant volume. Applications accepted until the position is filled.

Room to Read is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing

the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds. Room to Read is a child-safe organization; all personnel are expected to adhere to Room to Read's Child Protection Policy and Child Protection Code of Conduct.