NOTE: The above Pay Range only applies to applicants who perform the job within the US and to applicants classified by CRS as International Assignees. Staff hired on local payroll would follow the respective Country pay range. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your anticipated work location during the candidate selection process.

** This is a Global Remote position. Candidates based in countries CRS is registered to work at will be prioritized.

Job Summary

The Officer II, Global Programs Finance and Operations provides finance and operations support to a defined portfolio of global projects, with a particular focus on new awards and contracts. The role supports project start-up, implementation, and close-out by applying established CRS systems, procedures, and donor requirements. Working closely with program teams, country programs, and global teams, the Officer II supports financial management, reporting, and compliance activities, and escalates complex issues as appropriate.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

Financial Management

• Serve as a key point of coordination on award financial matters with program teams, country programs, subrecipients, and HQ Finance.
• Monitor spending against budgets and funding ceilings; support limitation-of-funds tracking and flag potential risks.
• Support project start-up, implementation, and close-out by providing finance inputs, tracking milestones, and coordinating routine award-related actions.
• Coordinate routine financial transactions (e.g., reclassifications, accruals, vendor payments) and review country-level transactions, advising on needed corrections.
Support budgeting and forecasting processes, including quarterly forecasts, using Oracle (ERP, ePBCS, SmartView).

Financial Reporting

• Prepare and review financial reports to support reconciliation, monitoring, and donor requirements.
• Support preparation and internal review of donor and prime awardee financial reports, including confirmation of payments and coding.

• Provide routine guidance to country program staff on standard reporting, budget, and spending requirements.
  

Financial Compliance

• Support audit processes and track follow-up actions for global awards.
• Coordinate routine compliance requirements for assigned awards (e.g., Host Government Tax reporting, SRFMP monitoring).
• Update compliance systems (e.g., Gateway, dashboards) and communicate standard donor requirements to award staff.
Support financial closeout processes by coordinating documentation and follow-up with country and HQ teams.

Cost Application development

• Support development of cost applications for new awards and contracts, ensuring budgets are accurate, reasonable, and aligned with approved activities and donor requirements.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions.
• Knowledge of Oracle enterprise systems
• Contracts experience
• Ability to develop new systems/templates to streamline current systems.
• Ability to work in a complex environment and to lead and work with multi-cultural teams
• Strong communications and analytical abilities.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Desire and proven ability to work in a collaborative, proactive, and multicultural team environment, but able to work independently.
• Ability to maintain strong customer service.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio).

Required Languages - Fluency in written and spoken English required; ability to work effectively in French or Spanish a plus.

Travel - International and domestic travel (less than 10%)

Supervisory Responsibilities - none