Chief Finance Officer

**Location**

This position is open to GAIN’s country offices in New Delhi, Nairobi and London.

**Salary**

A competitive salary package will be offered, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term

**Duration**

TBC - Subject to Funding

**About the Role**

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a visionary and strategic financial leader to join our team as Chief Finance Officer (CFO). This executive-level role offers a unique opportunity to shape the financial future of an organization committed to tackling the global challenge of malnutrition.. In the face of increasing global challenges like COVID-19, the conflict in Ukraine, and worsening malnutrition and hunger, we are driven by our strategy to transform food systems for the benefit of the most vulnerable populations.

**The Role**

As CFO, you will play a pivotal role in our Strategic Management Team (SMT), providing financial leadership that aligns with our bold strategy. You will ensure that GAIN’s financial plans are robust, transparent, and meet the highest standards of probity, while also ensuring compliance with donor requirements for budgeting and reporting. You will lead GAIN’s finance team, providing the strategic direction necessary to support our ambitious goals.

**Key Responsibilities include**
- **Strategic Financial Leadership**: Provide expert financial analysis, strategic guidance, and sound financial management across GAIN. Lead the finance team to support the organization’s strategic goals.
- **Corporate Finance**:Develop and manage GAIN’s corporate finance activities, ensuring robust financial systems and processes that are user-centric and future-proofed for a growing organization.
- **Budgeting and Reporting**:Oversee effective budgeting and financial planning, supporting the development and use of KPIs, and ensuring transparency and value for money.
- **Risk, Compliance, and Controls**:Manage relationships with external auditors and ensure compliance with all relevant accounting standards. Oversee risk management, financial controls, and regulatory compliance.

**Your Profile**
- A recognised professional finance qualification (e.g., ACA, FCA, CPA).
- Extensive experience in strategic financial planning, budgeting, and managing financial operations in a complex, global environment.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to lead a geographically dispersed team.
- Deep understanding of diverse regulatory environments, particularly those relevant to Swiss Foundations.
- Expertise in donor and project funding, FOREX, and cash optimisation in a non-profit context.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including Board members, donors, and non-financial staff.

**About our Offer**

**Why Join GAIN? **This role offers the opportunity to lead the financial strategy of a growing and highly respected organisation with a global impact. As a member of GAIN’s C-suite, you will contribute to collective strategic decision-making and play a crucial role in driving positive change. If you are passionate about improving global nutrition, thrive in a dynamic environment, and are ready to take on the challenges and opportunities that come with this role, we want to hear from you.

**Benefits**

**Competitive Salary**:A competitive salary package will be offered, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.

For more information about GAIN, our work, and the impact we are making, please visit our website.

**About GAIN**

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.

GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s live