Senior Manager Grants

Public Health Career; Delhi Township (OH); On-site; USD 26,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) invites applications for the Senior Manager Grants position, Delhi/NCR. The role oversees day-to-day finance operations, project budgeting, reporting to funders, and audits.

It requires a Master’s degree (MBA) and 12–15 years of finance experience. The incumbent will coordinate with internal teams, donors, auditors and external agencies, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and timely funding reports.

Qualifications

• Essential: Master’s degree/any other degree equivalent to MBA.
• Experience: Around 12-15 Years work experience in Finance.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day finance operations, project financial monitoring, budgeting, reporting, fund management, audits, statutory compliances, and financial coordination with internal teams, donors, auditors and external agencies.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, transactions, reconciliations and compliance across assigned projects.
• Monitor project budgets, MIS, cash flow, and financial statements; support grants team with quarterly finance reports to funders.
• Prepare, review and ensure timely audits (internal, external, grants audits, tax), and compliance with Income Tax, GST, Service Tax and FCRA requirements.

Skills

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Audit coordination

Stakeholder management

Compliance

Education

MBA

Job description

• Writing financial reports/updates

Position Code : PHFI-SMGR-2624

Position Title : Senior Manager Grants

No. of Positions : 01

Location : Delhi/NCR

Duration of Position : 01 Year (Extendable based upon performance/ requirement)

Brief On The Organization

The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is working towards building a healthier India. It is helping to address the limited institutional and systems capacity in India by strengthening education and training, advancing research and technology and facilitating policy and practice in the area of Public Health. PHFI is headquartered in New Delhi with national presence through its constituent units of regional Indian Institutes of Public Health (IIPHs) and Centers of Applied Research in core public health themes. The Foundation, established in 2006 as a public private initiative, is governed by an independent board comprising of senior government officials, eminent Indian and International academic and leaders, civil society representatives and corporate leaders. For more information, please visit the website www.phfi.org .

Job Summary

Responsible for managing day-to-day finance operations, project financial monitoring, budgeting, reporting, fund management, audits, statutory compliances, and financial coordination with internal teams, donors, auditors, and external agencies. Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, transactions, reconciliations, and compliance across assigned projects.

Deliverables

• The position is responsible for the day-to-day financial operations at the Institute. S/he plans, organizes, directs, and is responsible for providing quality financial services to all projects.
• Responsible for the management of the finance function and monitoring the project grants teams work for the assigned projects.
• The position should have the strong accounting and finance knowledge, analytical skills, attention to details, ability to work effectively under time pressure.
• Responsible for financial monitoring with the available project budget and MIS.
• Monitor performance of activities under various projects/programs in financial terms and analyze them vis a vis budgets, forecasts, donor and organizational constraints and other internal and external changes.
• Develop and implement a system of information sharing to bring potential and real financial issues, risks and opportunities to the attention of the supervisor.
• Monitor and ensure that the financial transactions are recorded in line with financial system requirements in timely fashion, without transgressing access rights.
• Review existing projects budgets updated in ERP and make sure that the budgets are updated as per funder approval. Also, necessary amendments are made in ERP in case of any revision in the budget and approved by the funder during project duration.
• Monitor and support project grants team in preparation of quarterly finance report to be shared with the Funder
• Review budget forecasts for each project and update supervisor
• Review of project cash flow and conduct regular fund analysis and update Supervisor
• Monitor timely monthly closure of all books of accounts.
• Review of monthly financial reports and share with Supervisor for approval
• Preparation and monitoring of activity-based budgets, such as trainings, workshops, and meetings.
• Support program team in preparing budget for new proposal and submit to the supervisor for review before submitting with the program team
• Responsible to monitor towards submission of financial reports of grants to the funder on time
• Responsible to monitor towards submission of invoices of grants to the funder on time
• Liaison with project related employees, vendors, external agencies like statutory auditors, internal auditors, funding agencies for details, submissions and reconciliations.
• Regular review on receivables and update Supervisor on time
• Preparation of Monthly Consolidated & segmental P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement
• Timely production of statutory and internal financial reports and all legal compliances.
• Achieve timely audits i.e. internal, external, grants audit, tax etc., on need based basis.
• Timely Preparation, issuance, submission of various certificates and returns and payment of taxes under Income Tax, GST, Service Tax, FCRA.
• Cross function coordination with Other Departments.
• Ensure all legal compliances.
• Writing financial reports/updates
• Any other work assigned by the supervisor

Qualification

Essential:

• Required Master’s degree/any other degree equivalent to MBA.

Experience

Essential:

• Around 12-15 Years work experience in Finance.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent Written and Verbal Communication skill (Hindi, English)
• Willingness to undertake Project Travel
• Excellent organizing abilities.

Please note that Annual Salary (CTC) will commensurate with available skills and fitment of the incumbent as per the selection process.

Last Date of Receipt of Applications: 20 September 2026.

Remarks

• Candidates are requested to refer PHFI website for position description & process for applying. Please note only those applications will be considered which are received as per instruction written on PHFI website.
• Candidates should have an excellent academic record, good communication skills, a commitment to high quality graduate / post-graduate education.
• Mere eligibility will not entitle any candidate for being called for interview.
• Persons employed in Government/Semi-Government Organization or Educational Institutions in India must apply through proper channel.
• PHFI reserves the right to fill or not to fill any or all available positions.
• The requirements of minimum qualification and/or experience may be relaxed in the case of candidates with outstanding credentials.
• No correspondence will be entertained from candidates regarding any delays, conduct & result of interview and reasons for not being called for interview.

“PHFI reserves the sole right to alter/modify/cancel the entire selection process or the position or the vacancy or to disqualify any candidature at any stage of the selection process”.

Women are encouraged to apply!