Chief Financial Officer
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CFO leading financial strategy and global financial management for Splash, a global nonprofit organization focused on delivering clean water and sanitation services.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of Splash’s long-term financial strategy in alignment with organizational growth, government partnership, and impact goals
- Help Splash build a more sophisticated capital strategy that distinguishes between philanthropic funding, catalytic capital, government co-financing, donor-funded infrastructure, technical assistance, and long-term public ownership
- Partner with the CEO, Development team, and program leadership to assess how different funding sources can support different needs across the organization
- Support financial modeling for government co-financing, donor match requirements, phased implementation, working capital needs, and long-term sustainability
- Advise the CEO and Board on tradeoffs related to scale, risk, unrestricted reserves, cost recovery, donor restrictions, and country-level financial exposure
- Lead scenario planning and financial modeling for multi-year growth, including delayed disbursements, foreign exchange exposure, government payment timing, implementation shifts, and funding gaps
- Build financial models that incorporate inflation, foreign exchange exposure, country-specific cost assumptions, and implementation timing so multi-year budgets are realistic and decision-useful
- Oversee global budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and financial reporting across Splash’s US and international operations
- Ensure timely, accurate, and decision-useful reporting for the CEO, management team, Board, Finance Committee, donors, and country teams
- Strengthen financial dashboards and analysis so country, regional, and global teams can track burn rates against activities, deliverables, restricted donor budgets, and implementation progress in real time or near-real time
- Manage organizational cash flow, reserves, restricted and unrestricted funding, and liquidity planning
- Partner with program and Development teams to ensure budgets, forecasts, and donor reports accurately reflect implementation realities
- Support budget modeling for new opportunities, including overall project budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, match or co-financing assumptions, cost recovery, and implementation timelines
- Ensure grant budgets, cost recovery, indirect cost allocation, and donor reporting are disciplined, transparent, and aligned with Splash’s operating model
- Support the design and financial oversight of government co-financing arrangements, including contribution models, annual workplans, budget alignment, and fund-flow options
- Help assess the financial implications of government-funded implementation, direct government procurement, contractor payments, cost-share commitments, and delayed public disbursements
- Partner with country teams to ensure government co-financing commitments are financially realistic, well documented, appropriately accounted for, and monitored
- Support financial analysis related to public-sector ownership, operations and maintenance, and the long-term transition of responsibility to government systems
- Ensure compliance with US nonprofit requirements, donor regulations, accounting and audit standards, and relevant international financial regulations
- Oversee financial operations across multiple countries and entities, including registration, statutory compliance, local audit requirements, payroll, tax, banking, and accounting practices
- Manage VAT, withholding tax, recoverability, exemptions, and other country-level tax issues that affect donor budgets, infrastructure delivery, and local contracting
- Lead the annual audit process and manage relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, legal advisors, and other technical consultants
- Maintain strong risk management practices across global financial operations, including internal controls, segregation of duties, fraud prevention, procurement controls, and documentation standards
- Build and maintain strong financial systems, policies, processes, and internal controls that support a growing global organization
- Strengthen financial technology, reporting tools, data integrity, and cross-country accounting processes
- Drive a culture of financial accountability, transparency, and timely decision-making
- Lead, mentor, and strengthen Splash’s global finance team
- Build financial capacity across country teams and non-finance leaders so budget ownership is distributed and disciplined
Requirements:
- Minimum of 15 years of progressively senior financial leadership experience
- Significant experience in global financial management, preferably in an international nonprofit, NGO, foundation-funded organization, development finance institution, or mission-driven organization operating across multiple countries
- Experience with international accounting standards and practices, including IFRS and/or IPSAS where relevant, donor compliance, grants management, restricted funding, audits, internal controls, and multi-entity financial operations
- Demonstrated ability to lead financial strategy in complex operating environments
- Experience with low-income or lower-middle-income country contexts strongly preferred
- Practical understanding of VAT, tax, multi-currency exposure, statutory compliance, procurement, and financial risk in international settings
- Experience supporting government co-financing, public-sector partnerships, infrastructure financing, development finance, or blended finance strongly preferred
- Strong financial modeling, scenario planning, forecasting, and analytical skills
- Demonstrated experience building multi-year, multi-country budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, and burn-rate analysis
- Experience working with Boards, Finance Committees, Treasurers, CEOs, and senior leadership teams
- Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business, public administration, or related field preferred
- CPA, MBA, or equivalent experience strongly valued
- Advanced proficiency with Excel and financial reporting systems
- Experience with financial dashboards, accounting platforms, grant management tools, and reporting analytics is an asset
Benefits:
- 18 days of paid time off, increasing by 2 days each year up to 28 days
- 11 paid holidays
- Wellness Fridays (reduced hours on Fridays)
- Two weeks of paid time off mid-year during July 4th week and the last week of the year
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401K plan with a 3% match
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