About the Position

The Finance Manager (FM) will lead overall financial management on a large, complex, and high-visibility USAID contract piloting a new approach to helping the Agency meet its staffing and surge support needs. An experienced senior leader, the FM will be part of the project’s core leadership team and responsible for maintaining overall cost control of the contract and staff-related costs to ensure we provide good value to the Government. They will implement financial management systems tailored to effectively meeting the contract’s specific cost-related objectives, covering budgeting, financial reporting, analysis/forecasting, pipeline tracking and reporting, and accounting. Working closely with project leadership, the FM will track cost-related performance metrics and ensure we achieve at- or below-target cost performance on cost reimbursable CLINs and achieve fixed performance incentives. The Finance Manager will provide oversight of all financial activities under the contract and manage all financial reporting and other compliance requirements. They will be responsible for ensuring the integrity and usefulness of Dexis financial systems. 

Responsibilities

• Establish a finance and accounting system that ensures compliance with USAID financial and accounting rules and regulations and contract terms. 
• Establish and maintain financial and cost records for all task orders and modifications to existing task orders. 
• Respond to client requests for financial and cost records of task orders with a one-week turnaround time. 
• Under minimal direction, develop and oversee a comprehensive budget for project operations and work with project management team to ensure the budget is adhered to. 
• Ensure appropriate financial management/reporting and payroll structure function to ensure timely payments to technical advisors. 
• Ensure fair and reasonable salaries when hiring staff – conducting extensive market research and looking at equity across positions with similar scopes. 
• In collaboration with leadership, lead project financial reporting ensuring timely submission of Quarterly Financial Reports detailing activity commitments, obligations, disbursements, balances by cost-reimbursable line item, etc. 
• Create and maintain tracking tools and processes for project management of complex assignments and recruiting actions. 
• Direct the day-to-day work activities of all financial management components, ensuring overall cost-control and cost-effectiveness of the contract.
• Partner closely with leadership to develop new processes to ensure the adaptiveness of the financial systems to project needs.
• Proactively identify and assess any financial risks and work collaboratively with leadership to identify mitigants.
• Advise on metrics used to monitor the financial management of the contract.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or other closely related field; Master’s degree preferred. 
• Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in project financial operations and management, including 5 specifically on USAID contracts. 
• Demonstrated experience tracking and managing cost-related performance indicators. 
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategically tailored financial systems and processes, to manage adaptively.
• Familiarity with principles of collaboration, learning, and adapting (CLA) in project financial practices preferred.    
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to manage USAID financial reporting and compliance requirements.