Interim Global Controller – Director, Finance & Accounting

🔥 13 hours ago

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

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⛔️ Financial Controller

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ThinkWell

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ThinkWell is a company dedicated to ensuring universal health coverage by providing innovative and practical solutions to improve healthcare access and quality. They focus on health financing, governance, research and evaluation, and human resources for health. ThinkWell works on strengthening health systems with an emphasis on public financial management and strategic purchasing for primary healthcare. Their efforts encompass both private sector engagements and public financial management, with their initiatives supported by grants from organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They are active in numerous countries, providing tools and solutions to enhance healthcare systems globally.

📋 Description

• Oversee ThinkWell’s global finance and accounting functions and provide strategic financial advice to leadership • Report to the CEO and participate in the firm’s corporate management team • Oversee a bookkeeper and collaborate with the Director of Operations and global managers • Develop and implement accounting protocols, policies, systems, and processes • Oversee accounting operations in accordance with GAAP and US Government rules and regulations • Ensure accurate and timely accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, invoicing, and related functions • Implement internal controls for revenue recognition, invoicing, transaction recording, expenditures, and safeguarding resources • Oversee in-country accounting and compliance processes across geographies; provide training, guidance, and expert advice • Perform multi-entity consolidation and allocate costs in compliance with donor requirements • Lead internal and external audit preparation, auditor interactions, fieldwork, and negotiations • Ensure timely and accurate tax and statutory filings across geographies • Review country office and global expenses for reasonableness, allowability, and allocability • Review monthly transactions and prepare monthly financial statements for leadership • Manage organizational cash flow and forecasting with the Managing Director, Global Business Operations • Monitor compliance with organizational policies, US Government rules, client terms and conditions, and applicable country laws • Review and reconcile indirect cost and fringe rate calculations; lead indirect cost rate proposal development • Oversee internal and external financial reporting • Analyze financial position and report risks, opportunities, and recommended course corrections to leadership • Lead organizational budgeting, develop budget templates, and monitor expenditures • Develop pricing and cost recovery strategies • Review proposal budgets for quality, compliance, and cost recovery with program teams and the Design Lab • Support organizational risk management, compliance, and strategic financial and accounting advice

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS and 15+ years’ relevant experience or graduate degree and 12+ years’ relevant experience • Active CPA required • Demonstrated financial and accounting leadership experience managing large, complex projects in an international development context • Knowledge of intercompany reconciliation, subsidiary consolidation, managing forex gains/loss, and other complex international accounting issues • Strong communication skills and experience communicating with senior internal and external audiences • Ability to represent the organization’s interests in budget and contract discussions negotiations • Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences and summarize key information for decision-makers • Extensive knowledge of US Government rules and regulations, including 2 CFR 200, FAR, AIDAR • Experience with other public and private funders and agencies preferred, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, UN agencies, etc. • Prior experience developing corporate budgets, templates, and indirect cost rate proposals • Expert Excel abilities and strong understanding of the interplay between proposal budgets, internal project budgeting, funder deliverables, and invoicing • Extensive team and people management abilities, including growing, mentoring, and coaching staff at various levels of seniority and experience • Senior leadership ability to rally staff around ThinkWell’s mission and priorities • Ability to engage effectively with external strategic partners, donors, and stakeholders • Fluency in English; second language an advantage • Outstanding cross-cultural communication skills, including ability to relate respectfully with staff at all levels, ages, genders, nationalities, and orientations, across work areas