Chief Financial Officer

🕒 June 3

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Splash International

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2019-11

Non-profit • Charity • Social Impact

Splash International is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing clean water solutions for children worldwide. Through initiatives focused on water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health, they strive to ensure that kids in schools, orphanages, hospitals, and shelters have access to safe drinking water and proper hygiene education. By leveraging technology and partnerships, Splash aims to transform the lives of children by addressing critical water and sanitation challenges in countries such as Nepal, China, India, and Ethiopia.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of Splash’s long-term financial strategy in alignment with organizational growth, government partnership, and impact goals • Help Splash build a more sophisticated capital strategy that distinguishes between philanthropic funding, catalytic capital, government co-financing, donor-funded infrastructure, technical assistance, and long-term public ownership • Partner with the CEO, Development team, and program leadership to assess how different funding sources can support different needs across the organization • Support financial modeling for government co-financing, donor match requirements, phased implementation, working capital needs, and long-term sustainability • Advise the CEO and Board on tradeoffs related to scale, risk, unrestricted reserves, cost recovery, donor restrictions, and country-level financial exposure • Lead scenario planning and financial modeling for multi-year growth, including delayed disbursements, foreign exchange exposure, government payment timing, implementation shifts, and funding gaps • Build financial models that incorporate inflation, foreign exchange exposure, country-specific cost assumptions, and implementation timing so multi-year budgets are realistic and decision-useful • Oversee global budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and financial reporting across Splash’s US and international operations • Ensure timely, accurate, and decision-useful reporting for the CEO, management team, Board, Finance Committee, donors, and country teams • Strengthen financial dashboards and analysis so country, regional, and global teams can track burn rates against activities, deliverables, restricted donor budgets, and implementation progress in real time or near-real time • Manage organizational cash flow, reserves, restricted and unrestricted funding, and liquidity planning • Partner with program and Development teams to ensure budgets, forecasts, and donor reports accurately reflect implementation realities • Support budget modeling for new opportunities, including overall project budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, match or co-financing assumptions, cost recovery, and implementation timelines • Ensure grant budgets, cost recovery, indirect cost allocation, and donor reporting are disciplined, transparent, and aligned with Splash’s operating model • Support the design and financial oversight of government co-financing arrangements, including contribution models, annual workplans, budget alignment, and fund-flow options • Help assess the financial implications of government-funded implementation, direct government procurement, contractor payments, cost-share commitments, and delayed public disbursements • Partner with country teams to ensure government co-financing commitments are financially realistic, well documented, appropriately accounted for, and monitored • Support financial analysis related to public-sector ownership, operations and maintenance, and the long-term transition of responsibility to government systems • Ensure compliance with US nonprofit requirements, donor regulations, accounting and audit standards, and relevant international financial regulations • Oversee financial operations across multiple countries and entities, including registration, statutory compliance, local audit requirements, payroll, tax, banking, and accounting practices • Manage VAT, withholding tax, recoverability, exemptions, and other country-level tax issues that affect donor budgets, infrastructure delivery, and local contracting • Lead the annual audit process and manage relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, legal advisors, and other technical consultants • Maintain strong risk management practices across global financial operations, including internal controls, segregation of duties, fraud prevention, procurement controls, and documentation standards • Build and maintain strong financial systems, policies, processes, and internal controls that support a growing global organization • Strengthen financial technology, reporting tools, data integrity, and cross-country accounting processes • Drive a culture of financial accountability, transparency, and timely decision-making • Lead, mentor, and strengthen Splash’s global finance team • Build financial capacity across country teams and non-finance leaders so budget ownership is distributed and disciplined

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of progressively senior financial leadership experience • Significant experience in global financial management, preferably in an international nonprofit, NGO, foundation-funded organization, development finance institution, or mission-driven organization operating across multiple countries • Experience with international accounting standards and practices, including IFRS and/or IPSAS where relevant, donor compliance, grants management, restricted funding, audits, internal controls, and multi-entity financial operations • Demonstrated ability to lead financial strategy in complex operating environments • Experience with low-income or lower-middle-income country contexts strongly preferred • Practical understanding of VAT, tax, multi-currency exposure, statutory compliance, procurement, and financial risk in international settings • Experience supporting government co-financing, public-sector partnerships, infrastructure financing, development finance, or blended finance strongly preferred • Strong financial modeling, scenario planning, forecasting, and analytical skills • Demonstrated experience building multi-year, multi-country budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, and burn-rate analysis • Experience working with Boards, Finance Committees, Treasurers, CEOs, and senior leadership teams • Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business, public administration, or related field preferred • CPA, MBA, or equivalent experience strongly valued • Advanced proficiency with Excel and financial reporting systems • Experience with financial dashboards, accounting platforms, grant management tools, and reporting analytics is an asset

🏖️ Benefits

• 18 days of paid time off, increasing by 2 days each year up to 28 days • 11 paid holidays • Wellness Fridays (reduced hours on Fridays) • Two weeks of paid time off mid-year during July 4th week and the last week of the year • Medical, dental, vision insurance • 401K plan with a 3% match