Associate Director, Finance & Operations

FHI 360

Accountabilities:

• Manages the operational and strategic functions of the finance department to ensure compliance and efficiency among country offices.
• Develops, reviews and analyzes monthly financial reports and budgets - actual and forecast
• Provides recommendations and consults with management on financial projects and compliances supporting country offices.
• Develops and implements process improvement plans for department to ensure financial controls and operational procedures.
• Participates and provides financial reporting for annual budget planning, audit reviews and assessments.
• Builds and trains staff on financial policies and procedures, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) practices and client relationships.
• Provides strategic leadership and oversight of all country operations, including procurement, logistics, asset management, facilities, travel, and administrative systems, ensuring operations enable timely, compliant, and high-quality program implementation.
• Leads country-level procurement strategy and planning, ensuring alignment with approved workplans, budgets, and donor requirements; oversees complex, high-value, and high-risk procurements in coordination with FHI 360 HQ.
• Manages operational risk management, identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational, financial, compliance, and security risks; advises the Country Project Director on risk exposure and mitigation strategies.
• Partners with technical and program leadership to ensure operations planning is fully integrated with technical priorities, assessments, field activities, and surge or emergency response needs.

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with accounting, financial controls and financial information systems.
• Strong knowledge of finance, operations, and internal control systems in U.S. Government funded projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing procurement, logistics, and administrative systems in an NGO or donor-funded environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent and demonstrated organizational and presentation skills.
• Excellent and demonstrated project management skills.
• Ability to influence, motivates, and negotiates and work will with others.

Problem Solving & Impact:

• Works on problems of complex scope that require in depth evaluation of data and various factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, for obtaining results.
• Decisions made generally affect company operations and may jeopardize overall business activities.

Supervision Given/Received:

• Manages staff to meet departmental and organizational strategic goals.
• Accounts for the budget, procedures, and training of staff to achieve results.
• Develops and recommends solutions to management meet internal and external needs of the company.
• Reports to the Finance Director within the OCFO.