Finance Director

Description

Job title : Finance Director

Team: Finance

Reports to: President & CEO and COO

Location: Flexible (Please note, all applicants must have the right to work in their location)

Supervises: Senior Accountant, Staff Accountant, Program and Operations Officer (Latin America), Operations and Finance Officer (Latin America), Finance Officer (Africa)

Indirect team members: Operations and Finance Officer (Europe)

Contract type: Permanent

About NRGI

The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a leading international non-profit organization to ensure that countries rich in oil, gas and minerals achieve sustainable, inclusive development. At a time when the energy transition is reshaping economies and societies, our mission to transform the governance of natural resources has never been more urgent.


Learn more: About us | Natural Resource Governance Institute

The successful candidate will demonstrate NRGI's values of rigor, collaboration, passion, integrity, and impact.

Requirements

NRGI's 2025-2030 Strategy sets out an ambitious agenda for transforming resource governance to advance sustainable development and just transitions in low- and middle-income countries. As part of this strategy, NRGI is strengthening and modernizing its global operations and finance functions to support long-term resilience and organizational effectiveness.

Reporting jointly to the President & CEO and the COO, the Finance Director will serve as NRGI's most senior financial leader and principal authority on financial management, compliance, reporting, and risk. The role combines strategic financial stewardship with genuine operational transformation across a highly complex, distributed organization: an annual budget of approximately USD 15 million, around 80 staff, formal registration in nine jurisdictions, and operations spanning roughly 15 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

This is not a steady-state finance role. It demands deep technical expertise, the confidence to lead change, and the judgment to balance proactive strategic leadership with responsive day-to-day management, while building trusted relationships with the leadership team, Governing Board and a geographically dispersed finance team.

Learn more about the role: Finance Director Job Description May 2026.pdf

Core Responsibilities

• Financial leadership and stewardship
• Compliance, audit and risk
• Grant and donor finance management
• Systems and process improvement
• Leadership and people management
• Strategic partnership

Experience & Technical Skills

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent) with at least 15 years of progressive senior financial leadership experience.
• Substantial experience in an international NGO, nonprofit or development organization, including direct responsibility for multi-country, multi-currency financial operations.
• Track record managing complex multi-donor restricted funding portfolios and compliance with major institutional donors.
• Experience leading annual external audit processes, including familiarity with US nonprofit requirements (single audit, IRS Form 990) and/or international statutory reporting.
• Experience as senior liaison to an Audit and Finance Committee.
• Strong technical grounding in US GAAP and nonprofit financial regulations.
• Proven ability to develop complex budgets, multi-year forecasts and funding risk analyses.
• Experience overseeing ERP platforms and driving improvements to financial systems and data integrity.
• Strong grasp of cost recovery, overhead allocation and donor compliance requirements
• Ability to translate complex financial information clearly for non-finance audiences, including senior leadership and boards.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field.
• Postgraduate qualifications (MBA, MSc Finance, or similar) highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of French, Spanish or another language relevant to NRGI's regions is a plus.
• Equivalent experience and transferable skills will also be considered.