Senior Manager, Program Finance

About the role

Evidence Action is hiring a Senior Manager, Program Finance for its Syphilis-Free Start (SFS) program, which aims to close syphilis screening and treatment gaps through HIV/syphilis dual testing and tailored treatment strategies. The role builds the financial models and processes that let leaders compare operating models, understand costs and funding needs, and adjust plans when constraints arise. It reports to the Associate Director, Program Finance and works with regional finance, accounting, grants and compliance, growth, operations, legal, procurement, people and culture, and monitoring, learning and evaluation. The role is expected to start in January 2027.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain multi-year financial models linking program design, country sequencing, staffing, timing and funding, and compare country and partner models (direct delivery, technical assistance, co-implementation, partners, fiscal agents, subcontracting)
• Analyze delivery costs, entry costs, shared and indirect costs, cost recovery, affordability, funding runway and multi-year commitments, and present options when plans exceed available funding
• Lead annual budgets, forecasts, revisions and scenarios, and advise leadership on donor restrictions, cost recovery and flexible-funding needs
• Lead financial development of multi-country proposals and partner budgets, and set consistent standards for proposal budgets and cost drivers
• Define the finance workstream for each prospective country and delivery model, and design financial arrangements for fiscal agents, partners and subrecipients, including due diligence, payments, cash flow, reporting, controls and transitions
• Create consistent budget structures, activity coding and reporting categories, and run regular financial reviews for each country and grant
• Oversee donor financial reporting and grant closeout with Accounting and Grants and Compliance, and act as the day-to-day finance partner to SFS leadership

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 6 years of related experience
• Experience leading financial planning, analysis and management for complex programs or portfolios with multiple budgets, funding streams and stakeholders
• Experience assessing partner budgets and financial capacity or designing financial arrangements for partners, subrecipients and fiscal agents
• Able to work across a matrixed, multi-country organization supporting centralized and field-based teams

Required skills

• Building multi-year forecasts, scenarios and cost-driver models in Excel
• Restricted-grant management, proposal budgets, donor financial reporting, cost recovery, indirect and shared costs, internal controls and financial risk management

The preferred base is Washington, DC, with remote work within the US open; the role spans time zones and may travel up to 10% of the time. Visa sponsorship is not available, and applicants must be legally authorized to work in the US.