Accountability and Complexity

1. Accountable for the integrity, consistency, and reliability of financial planning outputs across multiple countries, donors, and funding modalities.
2. Provides authoritative financial guidance on complex, high-value, and high-risk proposal budgets and budget modifications.
3. Exercises independent professional judgment in situations with limited precedent, competing donor requirements, or elevated compliance and financial risk.
4. Operates with a high degree of autonomy while leading cross-functional financial planning processes.
5. Influences senior stakeholders across Finance, Programs, and Grants without direct line-management authority.
6. Resolves complex budgeting, cost allocation, and forecasting challenges in dynamic and volatile operational environments.
7. Balances competing priorities, funding uncertainty, and compliance obligations to deliver transparent, defensible, and strategic financial decisions.

Proposal Budgeting and Budget Modifications

• Review and provide technical oversight of proposal budgets to ensure cost realism, donor compliance, and competitiveness.
• Collaborate with Program Development, Grants, and Finance teams to develop high-quality cost proposals aligned with project objectives and RI financial strategy.
• Review and approve budget modifications and realignments, ensuring alignment with donor rules, approved ceilings, and internal financial policies.
• Identify financial risks and cost drivers during proposal and modification stages and recommend mitigation measures.

Country Master Budgets and Financial Oversight

1. Design, implement, and maintain tools and systems to standardize and automate country master budget development.
2. Review, consolidate, validate, and track country master budgets on a quarterly basis.
3. Analyze budget data to identify funding gaps, cost pressures, underspend/overspend risks, and financial trends.
4. Partner with country finance teams to ensure timely, accurate inputs and to strengthen budgeting capacity and consistency.

Cost Allocation and Shared Cost Methodologies

1. Review and strengthen RI’s cost allocation frameworks to ensure fair, transparent, and compliant distribution of shared and indirect costs.
2. Provide technical guidance and training to country offices on cost allocation principles and application.
3. Monitor implementation of cost allocation methodologies and recommend adjustments in response to operational or donor changes.

Pipeline Analysis and Financial Projections

1. Develop and maintain a centralized pipeline tracking tool covering all country offices and funding sources.
2. Analyze pipeline data to produce funding projections and scenario analyses.
3. Prepare regular financial forecasts for senior leadership, highlighting potential funding shortfalls, risks, and opportunities.
4. Support strategic planning discussions through evidence-based financial insights.

Cross-Functional Coordination and Institutional Strengthening

1. Act as a focal point between HQ Finance, Program Development, Grants, and Country Offices on budgeting and financial planning matters.
2. Support audits, donor reviews, and internal controls by providing accurate financial analysis and budget documentation.
3. Contribute to organizational learning by strengthening financial planning systems, tools, and guidance across RI.

Behavior and Conduct

• Will ensure the highest standards of behavior inside and outside of work promotes the values in RI’s code of conduct and safeguarding policies
• Will be a model for ethical conduct standards for other team members
• Will ensure own actions and the actions of the teams members they manage do not impact the safety of the RI team and the vulnerable communities we serve
• Will ensure external stakeholders are aware of RI conduct and reporting mechanisms
• Report any concerns