Global Senior Director of Finance

The primary functions of the Global Senior Director of Finance are to ensure the integrity of our Oceana's finances, employ sound financial practices, develop, and deploy all necessary systems, policies, and procedures, provide information and data to leadership, and provide effective management to the F&A team. Extensive systems experience maximizing their capabilities to improve efficiency and produce needed information is a key success factor for this role.

The Senior Director role requires extensive management and mentoring experience in the areas of accounting, grants, budgeting, and financial analysis. In addition, expertise in Workday Adaptive Planning is a key requirement for this role. The position is 3 days a week in the office, hybrid role based in Washington, DC.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Financial leadership: Provide leadership and manage staff across all finance, accounting and grant management and financial reporting functions. Develop and lead a team of professionals directing their efforts toward Oceana's sustainability, efficiency, and effectiveness. Ensure goals are set monitored and achieved; and actively mentor and develop the skills of the team

Finance & Accounting Policies, Practices & Systems: Serve as the business owner for all finance-related systems. Identify process and system requirements and options that best meet Oceana's needs. Work closely with IT to evaluate, select, and oversee implementation and effective utilization of systems (such as Workday Adaptive Planning) to meet requirements. Develop and implement standard policies and practices in accordance with GAAP. Ensure documentation is in place for core processes. Create and operationalize plans for improving functions and processes.

Metrics and reporting: Identify appropriate metrics and produce reports to give management the information needed to make sound financial decisions. Analyze and interpret the data to simplify decision making for management. Oversee the production and analysis of Board/donor reports.

Budgeting and forecasting: Identify and implement changes to improve Oceana's budgeting process. Steer the annual and long-term budgeting processes. Ensure budgets are created, managed, and monitored. Forecast major sources of revenue and expense to inform short and long-term decisions. Recommend corrective action to the CFO when conditions warrant.

Systems utilization: Apply Workday Adaptive Planner knowledge to create the appropriate tools and information to support robust budget and other reporting solutions. Act as the Subject Matter Expert on Workday implementation.

Advice and training: Provide financial advice and guidance to organizational leaders, country vice presidents and office administrators to help them become good financial managers who can use and understand financial reports and make revenue and expense forecasts. Ensure appropriate training is in place to inform all employees about Oceana's fiscal policies and procedures.

Job Requirements:

Education and work experience:

• Graduate degree in Finance or Accounting and CPA required.
• External Auditor experience required.
• Ten plus (10+) years of progressive financial management experience
• Seven plus (7+) years of supervisory experience
• Experience effectively leading in a global organization through change
• Prior F & A non-profit and for-profit experience required
• Fluency in speaking and writing in English is required and Spanish is a plus

Skills and knowledge:

• Function as both a strategic and hands-on lead. Ability to maneuver effectively between strategic high-level executive advisory hands-on management.
• Demonstrated experience thinking and acting systematically to identify and solve problems.
• Excellent track record in financial and risk management and able to rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Experience creating a culture of fiscal management and responsibility at all levels of an organization.
• Experience implementing technology that has improved financial management, efficiency, and/or accuracy. Experience extracting data resulting in robust data, leading to good decision making.
• Strong analytical skills that allow for understanding, interpretation and insights leading to effective strategic decision making.
• Well-developed written and oral communication skills including the ability to explain technical issues in plain language and to clearly document and communicate policies and procedures.
• A leader who ensures a productive working environment and confidently leads, coaches, and motivates employees to meet organizational goals.
• Demonstrates an open and comfortable approach to working with people across levels, function, culture, and geography.
• Maintain the highest level of confidentiality regarding discussions and decisions made by Senior Management and take all required actions to ensure that staff adheres to these requirements.
• High integrity and openness combined with commitment to good governance.

COMPETENCIES

ACTION ORIENTED: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. Readily takes action on challenges, without unnecessary planning. Identifies and seizes new opportunities. Displays a can-do attitude in good and tough times. Steps up to manage tough issues

INSTILLS TRUST: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. Follows through on commitments. Is seen as direct and truthful. Practices what he/she preaches. Shows consistency between words and actions.

ENSURES ACCOUNTABILITY: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. Follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same. Acts with a clear sense of ownership. Takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures. Establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results. Designs feedback loops into work.

PLANS AND ALIGNS: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Sets objectives to align with broader organizational goals. Breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions. Stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules. Anticipates and adjusts effective contingency plans.

DRIVES ENGAGEMENT: Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. Structures the work so to align with people's goals and motivators. Empowers others. Makes each person feel his/her contributions are important. Invites input and shares ownership and visibility. Shows a clear connection between people's motivators and organizational goals.

DEVELOPS TALENT: Help people who are ready and willing to take on new challenges and set up when needed. Develop others through coaching, feedback, exposure and stretch assignments.

VALUES DIFFENCES: Is skilled at promoting a team environment that values, encourages, and supports differences. Helps create a climate where different experiences, styles, backgrounds, and perspectives are leveraged appropriately; and where a variety of cultures and viewpoints can be heard.

BUILDS EFFECTIVE TEAMS: skilled at creating a feeling of belonging, strong morale, fostering open dialogue and collaboration. Establishes common objectives and a shared team mindset.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS: Understands the value of effective communication. Can deliver messages in a clear, compelling, and concise manner. Actively listens, checks for understanding and adjusts content and style to meet the needs of different stakeholders.

BEING RESILIENT: Must be resilient and able to rebound from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations. Can stay focused and composed in stressful situations, take constructive action and is viewed as a source of confidence in high-stress situations.

The salary range for this position is $170,000 - 200,000 annually.

Oceana values a diverse workforce and welcomes people different from each other in many ways, including characteristics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and national origin. Oceana considers all qualified candidates and seeks to recruit from a diverse candidate pool. Please apply by January 17, 2025