Position Title: Finance Program Manager, Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs
Department: Finance
Reports to: Director, Finance (Canada)
Status: Full-time, Salaried
Location: Hybrid – Burlington, ON (2 days in Office)
Salary Level: $82,206 - $92,481 CAD
PURPOSE OF POSITION
The Finance Program Manager provides strategic financial leadership, oversight, and business partnering across World Renew's Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs (HEA) portfolio, with primary responsibility for International Disaster Response (IDR) and additional support to Disaster Response Services (DRS) and Refugee Sponsorship & Resettlement Programs (RSRP).
The position serves as the primary finance focal point for HEA, ensuring sound financial stewardship, donor compliance, internal controls, financial monitoring, risk management, partner capacity strengthening, and effective financial management throughout the project lifecycle.
Working closely with the Director of Finance, the Head of Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs, country offices, implementing partners, and institutional donors, the Finance Program Manager provides strategic financial analysis and guidance that supports informed decision-making, strengthens financial accountability, mitigates risk, and promotes effective stewardship of humanitarian resources.
The position has primary responsibility for financial oversight of World Renew's Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) portfolio while also supporting institutional grants, humanitarian appeals, consortium awards, emergency response funding, and future donor-funded initiatives across the HEA portfolio.
As the principal financial liaison between the Finance Department and HEA, the position strengthens financial systems, improves internal controls, supports organizational learning, and promotes continuous improvement in humanitarian financial management across World Renew.
We do not discriminate based on disability, culture, ethnicity, or gender, and welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Portfolio Financial Management & Oversight (30%)
- Provide strategic financial management and oversight across the Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs portfolio, with primary responsibility for International Disaster Response.
- Monitor portfolio financial performance, expenditure trends, forecasts, burn rates, budget utilization, and funding gaps.
- Develop and maintain executive financial dashboards that provide timely analysis of portfolio performance, donor balances, appeal funding, foreign exchange exposure, and financial risks.
- Prepare monthly portfolio financial reports, analysis, and recommendations for the Head of Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs, including emerging risks and actions to strengthen portfolio performance and financial stewardship.
- Support annual budgeting, financial forecasting, and long-term portfolio planning.
- Collaborate with finance and program teams to develop, monitor, and analyze cost recovery budgets and strategies across the HEA portfolio, maximizing recovery of direct and indirect costs while ensuring compliance with donor requirements.
- Monitor humanitarian appeal funding, restricted and unrestricted balances, and funding utilization.
- Coordinate fund transfers across the HEA portfolio with Finance and monitor project cash flow requirements.
- Monitor exchange rate fluctuations and assess their impact on project budgets and portfolio performance.
Donor Financial Management & Compliance (15%)
- Serve as the primary financial focal point for institutional donor-funded grants across the HEA portfolio.
- Lead financial oversight of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) portfolio, including equity allocations, budget monitoring, donor compliance, financial reporting, and financial assurance activities.
- Support financial management of consortium awards, humanitarian appeals, emergency response funding, and other institutional grants.
- Review budget amendments, reallocations, financial reports, grant modifications, donor financial reviews, and grant closeout activities.
- Lead development and review of proposal budgets, cost narratives, and supporting financial documentation for institutional funding opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with donor regulations, funding agreements, and World Renew financial policies.
- Support implementation of organizational sanctions screening, anti-terrorism measures, and other financial compliance requirements associated with institutional donor funding.
- Coordinate responses to donor financial inquiries and financial monitoring requests.
- Support post-award financial management throughout the project lifecycle.
Financial Monitoring, Internal Controls & Risk Management (25%)
- Conduct targeted remote and in-person financial monitoring reviews, in coordination with country finance teams and implementing partners, to complement routine financial oversight, strengthen internal controls, and support donor compliance.
- Perform periodic financial spot-checks of institutional donor-funded projects.
- Review partner financial reports, supporting documentation, reconciliations, and financial management systems.
- Assess financial risks and recommend practical mitigation measures.
- Strengthen internal controls, segregation of duties, and financial assurance processes.
- Monitor implementation of corrective action plans arising from financial reviews, audits, or donor monitoring visits.
- Support fraud prevention initiatives and promote sound financial governance.
- Coordinate and support external project audits and follow-up on audit recommendations.
Capacity Strengthening & Technical Support (15%)
- Identify financial management capacity gaps and, as appropriate, develop, implement, and/or support capacity strengthening plans and learning opportunities for country offices and implementing partners
- Provide technical guidance on financial management and compliance topics, including budgeting, financial reporting, donor requirements, grant financial management, and risk-informed decision-making.
- Provide technical guidance and learning support to finance staff and program teams on donor financial requirements and organizational financial policies.
- Promote localization by strengthening partner financial management systems and practices.
Financial Coordination & Organizational Support (10%)
- Serve as the principal financial liaison between HEA and the Finance Department.
- Support financial reporting processes by preparing and providing financial reports and analysis needed by program and leadership teams for program management, oversight, and decision-making.
- Collaborate with program teams and procurement staff to support procurement planning, review procurement-related documentation, and ensure compliance with organizational procurement policies and donor requirements.
- Support organizational financial planning and portfolio management discussions.
- Collaborate with Grants, Program Management, and MEAL teams to strengthen project performance and financial accountability.
- Promote sound stewardship by ensuring financial decisions align with donor expectations, organizational values, and program priorities.
- Support cross-functional coordination on financial policies, procedures, templates, and organizational systems when they affect HEA financial management.
Strategic Finance & Continuous Improvement (5%)
- Contribute to strategic financial planning across the HEA portfolio.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial systems, reporting processes, templates, automation, and operational efficiency across the HEA portfolio.
- Support organizational learning and continuous improvement by documenting financial lessons learned and applying best practices to future humanitarian financial management.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None
QUALIFICATIONS
Personal Attributes
- Demonstrates a personal Christian faith and commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Renew.
- Supports and contributes to an organizational culture rooted in Christian faith, service, justice, compassion, stewardship, and respect.
- Demonstrates integrity, professionalism, sound judgment, and ethical financial stewardship.
- Strong collaborative team player with the ability to work effectively across departments, cultures, and stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrates initiative, flexibility, resilience, and adaptability in a dynamic humanitarian environment.
- Strong analytical thinking, critical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrates diplomacy, collaboration, and the ability to influence others without direct supervisory authority.
- · Demonstrates commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Essential Skills
- Demonstrated expertise in financial management of institutional donor-funded humanitarian or international development programs.
- Strong knowledge of donor financial compliance requirements, including budgeting, financial reporting, cost eligibility, and grant lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated financial analysis skills, including forecasting, expenditure monitoring, variance analysis, portfolio financial oversight, and executive dashboard development.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, financial risk management, fraud prevention, audit readiness, and financial assurance.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple grants, funding streams, and competing priorities.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate financial information to both finance and non-finance audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, coordinate, and support cross-functional teams without direct supervisory authority.
- Strong relationship-building skills with country offices, implementing partners, donors, and finance teams.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, ERP financial systems, Microsoft Office Suite, and financial reporting tools.
- Demonstrated commitment to accountability, stewardship, confidentiality, ethical financial management, and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, International Development, Public Administration, or a related discipline.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
To perform this position successfully, the individual should have:
- Minimum seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in financial management, grant finance, donor compliance, accounting, or nonprofit financial management.
- Demonstrated experience managing institutional donor-funded projects throughout the full grant lifecycle.
- Experience supporting humanitarian, disaster response, or international development programming.
- Experience managing multi-country grant portfolios.
- Experience preparing donor financial reports, coordinating audits, and supporting donor financial monitoring visits.
- Experience developing proposal budgets and supporting institutional funding opportunities.
- Experience strengthening partner financial management systems and financial capacity.
- Professional accounting designation (CPA, CGA, CMA, ACCA, or equivalent).
- Experience with Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB).
- Experience supporting Global Affairs Canada (GAC), U.S. Government (USAID/BHA), UN agencies, or other institutional donor funding.
- Experience with Sage Intacct or similar ERP financial systems and financial reporting tools.
- Experience supporting procurement, sanctions compliance, and organizational financial assurance processes.
- Experience in humanitarian programming and faith-based organizations.
- Professional proficiency in French, Spanish, Arabic, or other languages relevant to World Renew's programming is considered an asset.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those necessary to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally up to approximately 20%, including travel to remote, disaster-affected, fragile, and occasionally high-risk environments.
- Travel may include financial monitoring visits, partner capacity strengthening, audits, donor meetings, and emergency response support.
- Flexibility to work across multiple international time zones may be required.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position. The incumbent will operate within a dynamic environment requiring flexibility, collaboration across departments, and the ability to respond to shifting priorities, humanitarian emergencies, and evolving donor requirements.
World Renew is an equal opportunity employer. It does not unlawfully discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, people with disabilities, veteran status, height, weight, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other category or characteristic protected by law.
World Renew is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the application, assessment, or interview process, please notify Human Resources, and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs in a timely and respectful manner. Information regarding workplace accommodations, accessible formats, communication supports, and accessibility-related policies is available upon request.
World Renew requires permanent work authorization at time of hire. With World Renew's commitment to Core Humanitarian Standard and Safeguarding responsibilities, as part of the recruitment process, a successful candidate can expect to go through a thorough background check. Please note that the tentative application deadline for this position will be EOD October 16, 2026, for External Applicants and Internal Applicants, closing date depending on application volume. We encourage all interested candidates to apply before this deadline as we move candidates through our hiring process on a continuous basis.