Job Profile
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager provides global financial planning leadership to strengthen Relief International’s budgeting quality, financial sustainability, and strategic decision-making.
Your role will lead the design, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of proposal budgets, country master budgets, cost allocation methodologies, and funding projections across Relief International’s country operations. You will ensure financial planning supports informed decision-making, donor confidence, and organizational sustainability, while strengthening financial systems and practices across HQ and country teams.
You will work with a high degree of autonomy, providing expert financial analysis and guidance across multiple countries, donors, and funding models. You will lead the development and application of standardized budgeting and financial planning tools, work closely with senior finance, grants, and program stakeholders, and exercise professional judgment in complex, high-risk, and fast-changing operational contexts to identify financial risks, funding gaps, and strategic opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Accountability and Complexity
- Accountable for the integrity, consistency, and reliability of financial planning outputs across multiple countries, donors, and funding modalities.
- Provides authoritative financial guidance on complex, high-value, and high-risk proposal budgets and budget modifications.
- Exercises independent professional judgment in situations with limited precedent, competing donor requirements, or elevated compliance and financial risk.
- Operates with a high degree of autonomy while leading cross-functional financial planning processes.
- Influences senior stakeholders across Finance, Programs, and Grants without direct line-management authority.
- Resolves complex budgeting, cost allocation, and forecasting challenges in dynamic and volatile operational environments.
- 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
- Design, implement, and maintain tools and systems to standardize and automate country master budget development.
- Review, consolidate, validate, and track country master budgets on a quarterly basis.
- Analyze budget data to identify funding gaps, cost pressures, underspend/overspend risks, and financial trends.
- Partner with country finance teams to ensure timely, accurate inputs and to strengthen budgeting capacity and consistency.
Cost Allocation and Shared Cost Methodologies
- Review and strengthen RI’s cost allocation frameworks to ensure fair, transparent, and compliant distribution of shared and indirect costs.
- Provide technical guidance and training to country offices on cost allocation principles and application.
- Monitor implementation of cost allocation methodologies and recommend adjustments in response to operational or donor changes.
Pipeline Analysis and Financial Projections
- Develop and maintain a centralized pipeline tracking tool covering all country offices and funding sources.
- Analyze pipeline data to produce funding projections and scenario analyses.
- Prepare regular financial forecasts for senior leadership, highlighting potential funding shortfalls, risks, and opportunities.
- Support strategic planning discussions through evidence-based financial insights.
Cross-Functional Coordination and Institutional Strengthening
- Act as a focal point between HQ Finance, Program Development, Grants, and Country Offices on budgeting and financial planning matters.
- Support audits, donor reviews, and internal controls by providing accurate financial analysis and budget documentation.
- 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
Person Specification
Skills, knowledge and expertise required for the role.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong understanding of donor-funded budgeting, financial planning, and compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience in proposal budgeting, budget management, and financial analysis within international NGOs or donor-funded organizations.
- Proven ability to work across multiple country programs with diverse donor requirements.
- Experience developing or applying cost allocation methodologies and financial planning tools.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with ERP or financial systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights.
- Excellent communication and relationship-management skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines with high attention to detail.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification or professional certification (CPA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent).
- Experience supporting organizational financial forecasting and pipeline analysis at regional or global level.
- Experience in systems automation or financial process improvement.
- Additional language skills (Arabic, French, or others).
RI Values
Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:
- Integrity
- Adaptability
- Collaboration
- Inclusivity
- Sustainability