Senior Manager, Strategic Finance

Responsibilities

• Drive financial planning across GiveDirectly
• Build smarter strategic finance systems and workflows
• Lead ad hoc financial analytics
• Conduct financial analyses across Programs, Growth, Product, and Shared Services to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support cross-functional initiatives
• Support initiatives such as cost-efficiency efforts, resource allocation analyses, and scenario planning. Structure ambiguous problems, align stakeholders, and deliver clear insights.
• Act as a trusted partner to leadership
• Help leaders in the organization identify and answer high-impact financial questions.
• What success looks like in 12-18 months
• Improved forecasting accuracy and stronger financial planning processes that support faster, clearer decision-making
• Clear, intuitive forecasting and reporting systems in place across the organization, improving visibility into financial performance, risks, and priorities.
• Successful delivery of multiple cross-functional finance and strategic analyses.
• AI and automation thoughtfully embedded across strategic finance wor

Requirements

• A structured problem-solver with 5-8 years of experience in a top-tier consulting, investment banking, private equity, or similarly rigorous environment.
• Highly analytical - you use data to generate insights and drive decisions.
• A clear, direct communicator - you cut through complexity and influence senior stakeholders with concise, well-structured thinking.
• Technically fluent - you have exceptional skills with spreadsheets and dashboards, and you are excited to apply AI and automation to real analytical problems.
• High ownership, low ego - you take responsibility for outcomes, prioritize ruthlessly, and follow through.
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity - you enjoy working on problems that don't have a clean answer yet, and you bring genuine intellectual energy to questions about resource allocation and organizational scale.
• Systems-minded - you spot inefficiencies quickly and design processes, tools, or workflows that make teams run better at scale.

Benefits

Additional Information

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist , NPR , TED , and The Washington Post . We are one of Time100's Most Influential Companies of 2026. Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do . If they resonate, this could be a great fit! About this role GiveDirectly has crossed $1B in cash delivered to people living in poverty, and we're building the finance function to match that scale. If you've sharpened your strategic and analytical toolkit in a demanding environment and you're ready to point it at something that matters, this role was designed for you. You will partner directly with the Chief Financial Officer and senior leadership to raise the quality of financial decision-making across the organization - improving planning rigor, sharpening resource allocation, and building the systems and analytical infrastructure that GiveDirectly needs as it scales. This is a high-leverage role: the work you do here shapes how hundreds of millions of dollars flow to people who need it most. This role reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer with significant ownership and autonomy - designed for a high-performing individual ready to take on a broad set of challenges, with an opportunity to expand scope and leadership as GiveDirectly grows. Location: Flexible (proximity to a GD office preferred: New York, Washington DC, Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, London). We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time. Travel: ~2-3 trips annually

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