Giving What We Can is working to create a world without extreme poverty, animal suffering, and existential risk, a world where everyone can flourish. We believe charity is both underrated and deeply impactful, and we work to make giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm.…

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Job Type: Full-Time

Salary: $60,000 – $160,000 USD

Location: Global remote

The opportunity

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is seeking a Head of Finance to build the financial infrastructure and team needed to scale a multi-entity grantmaking organization from $40 million towards $3 billion in donations to high-impact charities every year.

Your work would make or break our ability to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems, such as extreme poverty, the suffering of animals in factory farms, and global catastrophic risks facing current and future generations. If you build the systems and team that allow us to grow even 1% faster YoY, you would be directly responsible for $360M in additional donations going to high-impact charities.

What you’ll do

You will own the full financial function of a fast-growing, multi-entity (US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands) non-profit, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, compliance filings, controls, and building systems for scale. You will get to shape the organization’s financial infrastructure, processes, and team, and grow alongside the organization.

More specifically, you would be responsible for:

• Day-to-day finances.
• Managing, growing, and representing the finance team.
• Budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and strategic financial advice.
• Implement, enforce and improve our financial controls.
• Building and improving financial processes and systems.
• Grant finance

Requirements

Please note that we definitely do not expect any candidate to have all of these! In our view, eagerness and aptitude to learn, high-agency in getting things done and judgement/taste can many times be more valuable than actual experience in doing the thing.

• Certified accountant or strong technical accounting knowledge (UK, US, or equivalent; IFRS, US/UK GAAP, SORP, etc.);
• Risk management, especially for remote, grantmaking, multi-entity, or rapidly growing organizations;
• People management: growing and managing high-performing teams;
• Scaling financial operations and building the systems to enable it;
• Familiarity with non-profit or philanthropy finance;
• Working with financial providers of a wide variety, including payment processing providers and responsibilities such as renegotiating contracts;
• Managing finances of multi-entity or international organizations across jurisdictions.

Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible hours (preference for UTC-6 to UTC+3)
• 25 days paid leave + public holidays
• $5,000/year professional development budget
• $5,000/year mental health support budget
• Healthcare and/or pension depending on location (directly or via additional gross salary)
• The knowledge that your work moves millions of dollars to the world’s most effective charities

How To Apply

To apply for this role please complete this application form