Finance Manager, Agriculture Development (LTE)

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The FP&A team is responsible for optimizing portfolios to achieve foundation goals, engaging with partners and grantees, and identifying and analyzing grants to maximize foundation impact.

• Portfolio Management: Optimize finite resources across portfolios to achieve foundation goals using a fluid capital market approach to fund priorities.

• Partners and Grantees: Engage in coordinated strategic and business analysis across funders and institutions with shared strategic objectives and strengthen partners to improve their capacity to execute.

• Grants: Assess value for money, identify and mitigate risk, and provide financial analysis to maximize grant impact.

The Agriculture Development (AgDev) FP&A team operates at the intersection of Finance & Resource Planning (F&RP) and Agriculture Development (AgDev) and plays a crucial role in investing the Gates Foundation’s resources wisely and boldly in impactful and innovative programs. The goal of the AgDev team is to support farmers and governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that are seeking a sustainable, inclusive agricultural transformation—one that creates economic opportunity, respects limits on natural resources, and gives everyone equal access to affordable, nutritious food. The members of the AgDev Finance team are embedded with the program team and provide financial expertise for their investment activities.

Your Role

You provide business and financial support to Agriculture Development, requiring day-to-day involvement in financial planning and analysis, operating plans, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and communicating the results of these business processes. You also ensure the systems and processes are in place to provide timely financial and rigorous reporting, building a financial function that fully meets current needs and can scale quickly as the organization continues to grow and evolve. You are also responsible for budgeting and financial planning, resource allocation, and supporting other foundation-wide projects.

*This position is a limited-term position for 12 months. Relocation will not be provided.

 

What You’ll Do

• Perform analysis and provide leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management and forecasting, and effective financial resource allocation and decision-making through the foundation annual planning process.
• Work closely with leadership and Program Officers to translate strategy into long-term investment plans during strategy refreshes and reviews.
• Monitor actuals and forecasts against budget, identifying any major risks.
• Create financial monitoring tools and financial planning tools, including workflow management and monitoring tools, and partner with programmatic teams to manage grant and contract spending.
• Identify operational and financial risks of executing against annual budgets and propose mitigating strategies to the leadership.
• Perform financial and risk analysis to support investment making and management with an “Impact First” approach.
• Partner with Program Officers to structure effective investments and develop appropriate mitigating strategies to manage financial and organizational risks.
• Benchmark costs where possible, make recommendations, and provide advice to Program Officers in negotiating investments and sizing payments.
• Analyze and develop business plans and perform financial sustainability analysis of organizations and specific projects.
• Assess the financial and organizational health of grantee organizations through financial statements review and discussions with CFOs and other finance staff.
• Lead organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners, develop actions plans to address findings and achievements to measure progress towards organizational outcomes.
• Communicate the findings and results of the resource allocation processes to internal customers in a manner best suited to the make-up and needs of the audience.
• Advise program team on investments to strengthen the organizational capacity of partners.
• Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.

Your Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Strong analytical acumen, especially financial modeling and investment/deal structuring.
• Proficient with Excel and other analytic tools.
• Detailed knowledge of risk management and due diligence.
• Robust analytical, quantitative, and modelling skills for broad variety of business models and transaction types.
• Detailed knowledge of how to communicate sophisticated financial concepts to partners with a diverse set of backgrounds, including leadership, program staff, grantees, and other foundation operational resources.
• Detailed knowledge of how to synthesize skills, how to absorb, and quickly distill significant amounts of information.
• Strong ability to read and analyze financial statements.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work on multiple projects, or support multiple teams, simultaneously.
• Strong relationship management skills.
• Significant experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and business case development.
• Significant experience implementing and using financial processes and systems.

*Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.

The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g.: H-1B, O-1, L-1, E, OPT, STEM-OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).

We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in Seattle is $143,000 to $214,600 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process—such as an ASL interpreter, alternative interview format, or physical accessibility support—we’re happy to help. Please contact [email protected] with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.

Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.