Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis/Management (FP&A/M)

Position Title: Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis/Management (FP&A/M)
Department: Finance
Location: Remote in CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, or WA; up to 15% travel 
Reports to: Director, Financial Planning and Analysis/Management
Assignment Type: Full-time; Exempt
Hiring Range: $66,885 to $73,500 USD gross annually

Benefits: Please review the Americares careers page.

Application Requirements: Resume and completed application questions

About Americares: 
Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Americares Values:
We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.
We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.
We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.
We are better together; partnership is at our core.
We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.
We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

About the position:

Americares is seeking an Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis/Management (FP&A/M), to join our Finance team. FP&A/M supports organization-wide budgeting, forecasting, financial and management reporting, and strategic financial decision-making. This role will serve as a portfolio-focused analyst supporting Americares global programs portfolio. The Analyst will work at a detailed level across departments, cost centers, projects, and funding sources to understand financial performance, identify trends and variances, and provide actionable insights to budget holders and leadership.

A key focus of the position will be building and improving financial reporting. The Analyst will develop and maintain budget-to-actual (BvA) reports, recurring management reports, and ad-hoc analyses that help stakeholders understand financial performance and make informed decisions.

The Analyst will also play an important role in the annual budget, forecasting and reforecasting, month-end analysis, and other FP&A/M initiatives. This position reports to the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis/Management.

In the first 90 days, the person in the role will:

-Learn and model Americares values.
-Actively participate in Americares onboarding sessions and tasks.
-Develop a strong understanding of Americares’ financial structure, portfolio, budgeting processes, systems, and reporting requirements.
-Build effective working relationships with FP&A/M colleagues, budget holders, and key cross-functional partners.
-Become proficient in the core systems and tools used for budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and reporting.
-Begin independently preparing assigned budget-to-actual reporting, variance analysis, forecasts, and other recurring financial deliverables.
-Demonstrate the ability to investigate financial results, identify key drivers and discrepancies, and communicate findings clearly.
-Establish reliable work routines and demonstrate the ability to manage priorities effectively in a collaborative, remote environment.

In the first 6 months, the person in the role will:

-Independently manage the FP&A/M responsibilities for an assigned portfolio of departments, programs, projects, or funding sources.
-Serve as a trusted financial partner to assigned budget holders, providing timely analysis, guidance, and follow-up.
-Produce accurate and timely monthly and quarterly reporting, forecasts, variance analyses, and other financial deliverables with limited supervision.
-Understand how activity within the assigned portfolio contributes to the broader organizational financial picture.
-Identify financial risks, trends, data issues, and emerging variances and proactively raise them for discussion.
-Contribute to improvements in reporting, tools, templates, and FP&A/M processes that increase efficiency and usefulness.

In the first year the role will:

-Demonstrate full ownership of the financial planning, analysis, forecasting, and reporting responsibilities for their assigned portfolio.
-Successfully support a full annual budgeting and forecasting cycle, including collaboration with budget holders and consolidation of financial information.
-Provide thoughtful analysis that moves beyond reporting what happened to explaining why it happened, what it means, and what may happen next.
-Anticipate financial risks and opportunities and provide actionable insights to FP&A/M leadership and business partners.
-Develop strong credibility with stakeholders as a responsive, knowledgeable, and solutions-oriented financial partner.
-Identify and implement meaningful improvements to reporting, analytics, processes, or tools that strengthen the FP&A/M function.
-Demonstrate the flexibility to shift between detailed analysis, broader organizational priorities, independent work, and team-based initiatives as business needs evolve.

Duties and Responsibilities:

-Manage financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis for an assigned portfolio of departments, programs, projects, and/or funding sources.

-Prepare and analyze monthly and quarterly financial reporting, including budget-to-actual results, forecasts, trends, and key financial drivers.

-Partner with budget holders and cross-functional stakeholders to provide financial guidance, understand business needs, and support informed decision-making.

-Investigate variances, financial trends, data inconsistencies, and emerging risks and communicate findings and recommended actions.

-Support the annual organizational budget, periodic forecasting, and other organization-wide FP&A/M planning processes.

-Develop and maintain financial models, dashboards, reports, and analytical tools that translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights.

-Continuously improve FP&A/M reporting, processes, controls, and tools to increase accuracy, efficiency, consistency, and usability.

-Actively model and contribute to Americares values, work culture and mission.  

-Engage in and contribute to team spaces with openness, global competencies, and a growth mindset.  

-Other duties and responsibilities as assigned. 

Competencies required for the role:

Financial Planning & Analysis — Strong demonstrated ability to perform budgeting, forecasting, budget-to-actual analysis, variance analysis, and financial modeling within a complex non-profit organization.

Advanced Financial & Data Analysis — Ability to work with large and complex financial datasets, investigate discrepancies, identify trends and financial drivers, and translate detailed analysis into meaningful conclusions.

Advanced Excel & Financial Reporting — Advanced proficiency in Excel and demonstrated experience developing accurate, scalable financial models, reporting tools, and management reporting.

Business Partnership: Ability to work effectively with non-financial global stakeholders, understand their operations and financial needs, and translate financial information into clear guidance.

Financial Systems & Data Fluency: Experience working with ERP, budgeting/planning, and/or business intelligence systems and the ability to learn new financial technologies quickly.

Portfolio Management: Ability to manage multiple departments, projects, funding sources, deadlines, and competing financial priorities simultaneously. 

Management Reporting: Ability to develop concise, accurate financial reporting that highlights key trends, variances, risks, and decision points for management.

Process Improvement: Demonstrated ability to identify inefficiencies and improve financial processes, reporting, templates, and analytical tools.

Preferred qualifications for the role include:   
-Fluency in languages that are spoken in at least one of our core locations (India, Philippines, Tanzania, El Salvador, Colombia, etc.), in addition to English. 

-Experience in a humanitarian/development organization.

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:  
• Ownership and results  
• Communication  
• Problem solving  
• Equity and inclusion  
• Teamwork and conflict resolution 
• Leadership  
• Prioritization  
• Management  
• Strategy and planning  
• Decision making  

For candidates who continue in the process, the steps of the process include:
-Written application (resume and answering written questions)
-People and Talent interview (videocall)
-Competency Assessment  and Interview (videocall with hiring manager)
-Panel Interview (with key internal stakeholders)
-Reference Check
-Offer (for the candidate offered the role)
-Background check
-Onboarding