Sr Finance Officer RAPID

Catholic Relief Services; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a Finance Officer Sr to join the RAPID program in a remote-global role. This position supports the program's financial management systems, GAAP alignment, donor regulations, and local legal requirements.

It coordinates daily financial activities and ensures timely, accurate reporting. The role requires strong MS Office skills, analytical judgment, attention to detail, and collaboration across teams; travel up to 25% is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in financial management with GAAP and donor regulations.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to detect inconsistencies.
• Ability to produce accurate, well-documented financial reporting and reconciliations.
• Demonstrated ethics, integrity, and adherence to professional codes of conduct.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate supporting documentation for financial transactions.
• Set up and maintain data for processing transactions in accounting systems.
• Record transactions following approvals; propose corrections as needed.
• Coordinate with CP teams to clear advances and receivables.
• Evaluate subrecipient financial management and strengthen partner capacity.
• Prepare periodic and ad hoc financial reports; perform variance analyses.
• Collaborate to reconcile GL, PPM, and SF-245 reports; resolve discrepancies.
• Provide policy guidance on financial accounting to staff and subrecipients.
• Perform treasury duties including cash payments/receipts and forecasting.
• Support calendars and reporting cycles (MEC, YEC, ICQ).

Skills

MS Office proficiency

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Ethics/compliance

Collaborative

Proactive problem solving

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

PowerPoint

Visio

Web conferencing

Job description

**This is aremote-globalrole. The hiring team is considering candidates wherever CRS is registered to work at. CRS does not sponsor visas for remote employees.

NOTE: The Pay Range referenced in this job announcement only applies to applicants who perform the job within the US and to applicants classified by CRS as International Assignees. Staff hired on local payroll would follow the respective Country pay range. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your anticipated work location during the candidate selection process.

Pay Range
$64,647 - $77,268 Annually

Project Overview

Catholic Relief Services is implementing a global emergency response initiative designed to deliver timely, life‑saving humanitarian assistance in rapidly evolving crises worldwide. Over 18 months, the program enables fast, flexible action to address urgent needs arising from sudden shocks and protracted emergencies. It supports critical humanitarian sectors through context‑appropriate assistance while emphasizing operational readiness, locally led implementation, accountability to affected communities, and safe, dignified programming. The initiative strengthens the organization’s ability to respond at speed and scale in complex and resource‑constrained environments, ensuring help reaches people most in need when it matters most.

Job Summary

The Finance Officer Sr supports the RAPID’s overall financial management systems, policies, and procedures in alignment with CRS accounting standards, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), donor regulations, and local legal requirements. As part of an experienced finance team, the Finance Officer helps coordinate daily financial activities through preparation and delivery of financial services The Finance Officer Sr is responsible for consolidating RAPID’s financial processes, including transaction reviews, account analysis, compliance monitoring, and financial reporting and reconciliations, to ensure strong stewardship of RAPID’s resources across all countries.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Review and validate supporting documentation of financial transactions to ensure all required documents are accurate and complete.
• Help to ensure the setting up and maintenance of all data required for processing financial transactions for assigned accounts in financial accounting systems.
• Ensure the recording of financial transactions following appropriate authorizations. Review and analyze various accounts to detect irregularities. Advise on corrective actions and prepare correcting entries and adjustments, as necessary.
• Work with the finance CP teams to clear all open advances and other receivables.
• Participate to evaluate and monitor subrecipient financial management processes in accordance with policy. Contribute to strengthening the capacity of partners in financial accounting and transactions.
• Prepare various, periodic and ad hoc financial reports. Perform variance analyses to assist with decision-making and proper management of financial resources.
• Work with the DFM to clear discrepancies after reconciliation between GL, PPM reports and SF-245 federal financial report
• Provide information to subrecipients and staff on financial accounting policies and procedural compliance issues and contribute to capacity strengthening.
• Perform assigned treasury (e.g., cash payment and receipt, cash forecast, etc.) duties.
• Work with the finance CP teams to clear all open advances and other receivables.
• Collaborate with all CP finance teams to ensure a smooth running of financials Key dates and calendar (MEC, YEC, ICQ)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Web Conferencing Applications.
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to detect and report inconsistencies
• Ability to produce work accurately and completely with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to act and conduct oneself in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions oriented and results-oriented mindset.
• Ability to work collaboratively.

Required Languages

Fluency in English required.

Travel

Must be willing and able to travel up to 25%.

Supervisory Responsibilities

No