The Opportunity:
We are seeking a resourceful and disciplined Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead our team focused on planning & budgeting, financial analysis & business intelligence, and system implementation/management at Ashoka.
This person will play a critical role liaising with leaders of Ashoka’s programs, country/regional leadership, and Finance team colleagues for the purposes of planning, analysis, input for strategic planning, and implementation of a common and efficient systems and processes across the organization.
What You'll Do:
Financial Planning & Analysis:Lead strategic and annual planning, multi-year budgeting, and scenario forecastingDrive financial analysis across global programs and country officesOversee business intelligence tools and dashboarding to support decision-makingServe as a product owner for finance systems (especially NetSuite) including implementation, process improvement, and user training
Team Leadership:Leverage strengths of the current finance team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals. Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment.Provide coaching to other staff while working collaboratively with them to define and find solutions to issues. Be willing to roll up sleeves in tackling issues including technical challenges.
A Sample of What You'd Own:Annual and multi-year budget development across 30+ entities and global programsDynamic grant forecasting model that integrates program timelines and burn ratesBoard-level financial dashboards with real-time KPIs and trendsInternal monthly budget-to-actuals dashboards with variance explanationsNetSuite budget module configuration and user roll-out across departments or region
What You Bring:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (Master’s or MBA preferred)7–10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial strategy, or nonprofit financePrior experience working with multi-entity, multi-currency organizationsExperience in nonprofit, international development, or grant-funded organizations. Familiarity with fund accounting and restricted/unrestricted fund tracking.Excellent analytical & scenario planning skills.Hands-on experience with Netsuite budgeting & reporting, with experience managing or collaborating on global ERP systems implementation.Strong proficiency in Excel, financial modeling, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Working knowledge of budgeting tools & innovative applications for data or AI a plus.Strong communicator, team member coach, able to translate numbers into stories for senior leadership and non-finance staff. You have a proven ability to build cross-functional relationships across countries and departments. You're comfortable building from scratch in a fast-moving, evolving environment. You can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Core Criteria:
Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.
About Ashoka:
Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.
Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.
