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Ashoka · 12 hours ago

Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

7+ years exp

Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. They are seeking a resourceful and disciplined Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead their team focused on planning & budgeting, financial analysis & business intelligence, and system implementation/management.

InfrastructureNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

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

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

Qualification

Financial Planning & AnalysisNetSuiteBudgetingFinancial ModelingData VisualizationAnalytical SkillsTeam LeadershipCommunication SkillsEmotional Intelligence

Required

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

Company

Ashoka

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Ashoka is a civil and social organization that specializes in the fields of social entrepreneurship and social change.

Founded in 1980

Arlington, Virginia, USA

501-1000 employees

http://www.ashoka.org

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