Chief Financial Officer at Splash International

Roles & Responsibilities

Financial Strategy, Sustainability, and Blended Finance 

• 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.  

Global Financial Management & Reporting  

• 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. 

Government Co-Financing and Public Finance 

• 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. 
• Bring practical understanding of the risks and realities of operating in low-income settings, including public finance cycles, procurement constraints, documentation gaps, currency exposure, and varying local accounting capacity. 

International Compliance, VAT, Tax, and Risk 

• 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. 

Systems, Controls, and Operational Discipline 

• 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. 
• Build and enforce the accounting and reporting architecture needed to track restricted funds by donor, project, activity, deliverable, country, budget line, and spending status. 
• Strengthen budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, cost documentation, and approval processes so they are clear, efficient, and scalable. 
• Ensure finance processes support procurement, contracting, and implementation without making finance a bottleneck. 
• Drive a culture of financial accountability, transparency, and timely decision-making. 

Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Partnership 

• 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. 
• Partner closely with Program, Development, Operations, and country leadership to align financial resources with program delivery and organizational priorities. 
• Translate complex financial issues into clear, practical guidance for colleagues who are not finance specialists. 
• Serve as a trusted partner to the CEO, Treasurer, Finance Committee, and Board. 

Qualifications

• 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. 

The Ideal Candidate

• The ideal candidate is both technically strong and strategically curious. They can manage audits, budgets, compliance, and controls, but they are also energized by the larger question: what financial architecture will allow Splash’s model to scale, transition, and endure? 

They will bring: 

• Strong judgment in complex, ambiguous, multi-country environments. 
• A practical understanding of how money actually moves across donors, governments, contractors, country teams, and local partners. 
• Comfort working across philanthropy, government co-financing, restricted grants, catalytic capital, and other forms of mission-aligned finance. 
• The instincts of an operator, builder, and strategist, with the ability to create standards, systems, and financial tools that are useful across teams. 
• Ability to identify financial risks early and communicate them clearly without slowing the organization unnecessarily. 
• A systems mindset, with the ability to build processes that are disciplined, useful, and agile. 
• Strong partnership orientation with program, Development, operations, and country leaders. 
• High standards for transparency, accountability, and follow-through. 
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. 
• Ability to operate across time zones and cultures with humility, clarity, and respect. 
• Commitment to Splash’s values: People, Quality, Honesty, Joy, and Mistakes. 

Compensation & Benefits

• The compensation for this role is $170,000 - $200,000, in line with experience. At Splash, we prioritize our mission by offering benefits to support our employees and their families. 
• Splash operates across time zones with flexible work schedules. Team members can set standard hours within their time zone but should be available for occasional off-hours work. This is balanced by a self-managed schedule allowing personal time. 
• Benefits include 18 days of paid time off, increasing by 2 days each year up to 28 days, 11 paid holidays, and Wellness Fridays (reduced hours on Fridays). Additionally, we offer two weeks of paid time off mid-year during July 4th week and the last week of the year. 
• Medical, dental, vision insurance, and a 401K plan with a 3% match.