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About the Role
The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis and Grant Management serves as a strategic partner to the CFO and senior leadership, leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analysis, and grant financial management to support decision-making and organizational sustainability.
Responsibilities
- Lead HRW’s annual organizational budget process, including planning, coordination, consolidation and analysis.
- Develop financial models, scenarios, analyses and management reporting to support the CFO, Executive leadership, Finance & Investment Committee and other Board stakeholders in strategic decision making.
- Lead organizational forecasting and multi-year financial planning, ensuring projections reflect organizational priorities, operating plans, revenue expectations, and emerging risks and opportunities.
- Monitor and report on financial performance through monthly and quarterly management reporting, including budget versus actuals, forecasts, cash flow projections, and key financial and organizational indicators.
- Perform other tasks as may be required.
- Partner with Development and Programs to develop donor proposal and grant budgets, monitor grant financial performance, and ensure timely and accurate donor financial reporting through the grant cycle.
- Develop and maintain indirect cost recovery approaches to ensure that full costs are presented and covered.
- Strengthen financial systems, reporting tools, dashboards, and data-driven decision making in collaboration with Technology, Accounting and Development, and other functions.
- Identify and implement improvements to financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency, accuracy, integration, and decision making.
- Lead and develop a high-performing FP&A and Grants Management team through a culture of mentorship, collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement and customer service.
- Build cross-functional partnerships across Operations, Development, and Programs promoting financial understanding, helping leaders understand financial implications, tradeoffs and opportunities.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field is required.
- A CPA, ACCA, CIMA, MBA, or equivalent advanced degree/certification preferred.
- A minimum of ten years of experience overseeing financial and budgetary activities is required.
- A minimum of five years of managerial experience is required.
- Demonstrated experience leading organizational budgeting, forecasting, multi-year financial planning, financial modeling, and management reporting in a complex multinational and/or non-profit organization – ideally both.
- Significant experience managing donor-funded grants and restricted funding, including proposal budgeting, financial forecasting, expenditure monitoring, and donor financial reporting.
- Experience partnering and advising senior executives, boards, and complex international operations is required.
- A demonstrated ability to influence without specific authority and to build financial literacy in non-financial leadership is desirable.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and leadership skills are required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English are required.
- Fluency in additional languages (particularly French) is advantageous.
- Experience with ERP systems, business intelligence tools, and multi-currency environments are required.
- Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce and Concur are preferred.
- Proven ability to translate complex financial information into actionable recommendations for non-financial stakeholders.
- Strong managerial skills are required.
- Demonstrated ability to closely partner with other operational functions is required.
- Must possess valid US work authorization.
- HRW cannot guarantee the ability to provide work visa sponsorship for this role.
Skills
- Financial Planning
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Management Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Grant Financial Management
- Financial Modeling
- Scenario Analysis
- Revenue Projections
- Donor Proposal Budgeting
- Grant Budgeting
- Financial Forecasting
- Expenditure Monitoring
- Donor Financial Reporting
- Indirect Cost Recovery
- Financial Systems Improvement
- Reporting Tools
- Dashboards
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Process Improvement
- Mentorship
- Collaboration
- Accountability
- Continuous Improvement
- Customer Service
- Cross-functional Partnerships
- Financial Understanding
- Financial Literacy
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- ERP Systems
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Multi-currency Environments
- NetSuite
- Salesforce
- Concur
Location
- Multiple Locations Considered
- New York
- Washington DC
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
- Ten years of experience overseeing financial and budgetary activities
- Five years of managerial experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field
- CPA, ACCA, CIMA, MBA, or equivalent advanced degree/certification preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $180,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive employer-paid benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Outstanding retirement savings plan
- Twenty (20) days of vacation per year
About the Company
- Human Rights Watch is an international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in changing the human rights-related policies and practices of influential governments and international institutions.
Equal Opportunity
- Human Rights Watch is strong because it is diverse. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
- Human Rights Watch does not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or criminal record.
- We welcome all kinds of diversity.
- Our employees include people who are parents and nonparents, the self-taught and university educated, and from a wide span of socio-economic backgrounds and perspectives on the world.
- Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer.