Description
Position Title: Grant Finance Manager
Position Classification: Timebound; Exempt; Full-Time; 40 Hours/Week
Reports To: Associate Director of Grant Finance
Location: Employees in this role can work from our Boston, MA office, remotely within the U.S. or a hybrid of these two options. Up to 15% international travel.
This position is timebound and grant funded through June 30, 2028, with the opportunity to extend with additional funding.
Please note that we do not sponsor U.S. work authorization for this role. Candidates must be able to legally work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.
Position Overview:
Partners In Health (PIH) is looking for a detail-oriented, results-driven Finance Manager with superb interpersonal and organizational skills to join the Grant Finance team, to play a lead role in the financial management and oversight of a portfolio of PIH grants. The Finance Manager will guide effective financial management of a diverse, cross-regional, award portfolio implemented in one or more PIH sites: Haiti, Peru, Rwanda, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Lesotho, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Navajo Nation. The Finance Manager will work with staff across project teams to ensure strong financial management for projects to deliver on time, on scope, on budget and with quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare timely and accurate external financial reports that comply with all donor regulations.
- Monitor spending across grants to ensure appropriate expense allocation, timely use of funds, and compliance with donorโs operational and contractual requirements; document and monitor overall performance, analyze trends, highlight issues, identify gaps.
- Establish and maintain project financial tracking tools, including for sub-awardees.
- Lead budget development process for new proposals within portfolio and as assigned, working closely with the programmatic team to understand project activities and implementation plan.
- Lead budget revisions and reallocation requests.
- Ensure grants within portfolio are accurately projected within PIH budget system.
- Coordinate with Award Manager to communicate and meet with funder on financial or compliance aspects of the project.
- Work closely with internal and external auditors to ensure efficiency and completion of annual audits, and to ensure that audit findings and recommendations are addressed and closed in a timely manner.
- Communicate with PIH finance staff, subcontractors, and partners to ensure project spend is in compliance with funder requirements, and aligned with approved budget.
Qualifications:
- 5-8 years of professional experience in financial management of multi-country awards with high-compliance donors including USAID, Unitaid, and Global Fund.
- Minimum of Bachelorโs-level degree in public administration, business, finance, economics, accounting, or a related field, Masterโs preferred
- Experience managing financial aspects across multiple countries and projects
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office; Advanced Excel skills
- Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and countries under shifting and demanding timelines
- Ability to present and explain financial information clearly to colleagues at all levels, including non-financial staff
- Comfortable with inheriting already established processes and tools, while also assessing areas for improvement
- Demonstrates the organizationโs core values of: Commitment, Humility, Integrity and Pragmatic Solidarity/Accompaniment
- Accountability โ Able to accept responsibility for one's actions, outcomes, and those of their team.
- Achieving results โ Able to design and conduct work with clarity and integrity: to set realistic targets for themselves and others, ensure availability of resources, monitor progress and performance, accomplish meaningful outcomes, evaluate achievements, and integrate lessons learned.
- Adaptability โ Able to adapt to change, to balance multiple demands, consider new approaches, and persist towards solutions in changing circumstances.
- Teamwork โ Able to work well with others to achieve common goals. Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and country.
Other Requirements
- Travel Requirements: Up to 15% international travel.
- Ability to work U.S. Eastern Time Zone hours required.
This vacancy may be used to fill similar positions.
Organizational Profile
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the worldโs leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governmentsโ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.
As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.
Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.
Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
Pay and Benefits
The expected starting salary range for new hires in this position is between $80,000-$85,000/year and may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market for the position, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The position belongs to a class of roles that have a salary range between $70,000 and $95,000/year. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan with automatic employer contribution, as well as participate in organization-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employeeโs eligible dependents. PIH offers professional development and home office reimbursements as well as a flexible paid time off policy with no maximum, generous holiday time, summer and winter breaks, and a sabbatical leave policy.
Partners In Health will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected].