Deputy Director, Budget and Planning

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Job Field: Accounting / Finance Jobs
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Deputy Director, Budget and Planning<BR>Division Finance and Strategy<BR>Department N/A<BR>Location Seattle<BR>Foundation Overview Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.<BR>Group Summary The Finance and Strategy group is responsible for implementing and maintaining operating procedures designed to ensure rigorous stewardship of the foundation''s financial resources. We oversee the business processes that govern the foundation’s basic grantmaking and risk management; evaluate and improve the impact of the foundation''s grantmaking; and produce accurate and transparent financial analyses and reports. We also coordinate public-private partnerships across the different grantmaking areas to optimize effectiveness and share best practices, and we drive a number of special initiatives related to planning for substantial increases in long-term payout and overall growth.<BR>Responsibilities The Deputy Director, Budget & Planning is responsible for the development and promulgation of the foundation’s core financial processes including budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year aggregate payout planning, and collaborates with the Program and Operations CFOs to drive best practices across the foundation. The Deputy Director also leads a team of financial managers and analysts who provide an array of financial support services to operations departments including analysis of budget variances, monitoring of financial and operational plans, and development of analytical tools and models to support operational decision-making. The incumbent meets regularly with the Program Directors of Finance to ensure consistency and collaboration on financial management matters across the foundation. The Deputy Director oversees the preparation and communication of monthly financial results for the foundation, and keeps appropriate stakeholders informed. The successful candidate will be adept at collaborating with an array of stakeholders within Finance & Strategy as well as across the foundation ranging from Management Committee executives through to operational leaders and line level staff.  <BR>Responsibilities:<BR>• Lead the development of the foundation’s annual budgeting calendar and processes; oversee the administration of budget system, tools, and processes.<BR>• Monitor foundation’s compliance with annual payout requirements.<BR>• Develop economic models that assess th                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              </font></td>
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