Remote FP&A Manager — Grants & Portfolio Strategy

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 143,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Family leave

Retirement contribution

Regional holidays

Employee communities

Job summary

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking a Finance Manager in Seattle/Remote to provide business, financial analysis, and modeling support to the US Program Division. The role focuses on cross-cutting financial analysis, grant structuring, and long-range budgeting to support K-12 and Postsecondary learning programs.

Collaboration with FP&A and program teams is essential, including due diligence and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of financial planning experience.
• Experience in the technology, and educational technology and/or technology product development sector preferred.
• Strong analytical acumen, especially financial modeling, and grant structuring.
• Knowledge of risk management and organizational due diligence.
• Robust analytical, quantitative, and modeling skills for a broad variety of transaction types.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that are appropriately right sized to relevant audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide support, financial analysis, and business advice to program teams and drive business case analyses in partnership with FP&A colleagues.
• Lead ad hoc complex analyses and provide program leadership with strategic and financial information to support budget management, forecasting and effective financial resource allocation.
• Support annual budgeting and financial planning processes, including mid/long-range forecasts and risk assessments.
• Proactively support organizational assessments/due diligence of key grantees/partners and develop mitigating strategies.
• Cultivate and manage key relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Lead forecast and portfolio allocation management for assigned PSTs and monitor actuals vs budget.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of financial planning experience

Tools

Advanced Excel

Data visualization

Job description

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking a Finance Manager in Seattle/Remote to provide business, financial analysis, and modeling support to the US Program Division. The role focuses on cross-cutting financial analysis, grant structuring, and long-range budgeting to support K-12 and Postsecondary learning programs.

Collaboration with FP&A and program teams is essential, including due diligence and risk mitigation.