Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a resourceful and disciplined Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead our team focused on planning & budgeting, financial analysis & business intelligence, and system implementation/management at Ashoka. 

This person will play a critical role liaising with leaders of Ashoka’s programs, country/regional leadership, and Finance team colleagues for the purposes of planning, analysis, input for strategic planning, and implementation of a common and efficient systems and processes across the organization.

• Financial Planning & Analysis:
• Lead strategic and annual planning, multi-year budgeting, and scenario forecasting
• Drive financial analysis across global programs and country offices
• Oversee business intelligence tools and dashboarding to support decision-making
• Serve as a product owner for finance systems (especially NetSuite) including implementation, process improvement, and user training

• Team Leadership:
• Leverage strengths of the current finance team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals.
• Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment.
• Provide coaching to other staff while working collaboratively with them to define and find solutions to issues.  Be willing to roll up sleeves in tackling issues including technical challenges.

• A Sample of What You'd Own:
• Annual and multi-year budget development across 30+ entities and global programs
• Dynamic grant forecasting model that integrates program timelines and burn rates
• Board-level financial dashboards with real-time KPIs and trends
• Internal monthly budget-to-actuals dashboards with variance explanations
• NetSuite budget module configuration and user roll-out across departments or region

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (Master’s or MBA preferred)
• 7–10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial strategy, or nonprofit finance
• Prior experience working with multi-entity, multi-currency organizations
• Experience in nonprofit, international development, or grant-funded organizations. Familiarity with fund accounting and restricted/unrestricted fund tracking.
• Excellent analytical & scenario planning skills.
• Hands-on experience with Netsuite budgeting & reporting, with experience managing or collaborating on global ERP systems implementation.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, financial modeling, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Working knowledge of budgeting tools & innovative applications for data or AI a plus.
• Strong communicator, team member coach, able to translate numbers into stories for senior leadership and non-finance staff. You have a proven ability to build cross-functional relationships across countries and departments.
• You're comfortable building from scratch in a fast-moving, evolving environment. You can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

• Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life. 
• Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context. 
• Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second). 
• Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy. 
• Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.

About Ashoka:

Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker. 

Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.