Senior Manager, Strategic Finance
About the role
About this role
GiveDirectly has crossed $1B in cash delivered to people living in poverty, and we’re building the finance function to match that scale. If you’ve sharpened your strategic and analytical toolkit in a demanding environment and you’re ready to point it at something that matters, this role was designed for you.
You will partner directly with the Chief Financial Officer and senior leadership to raise the quality of financial decision-making across the organization — improving planning rigor, sharpening resource allocation, and building the systems and analytical infrastructure that GiveDirectly needs as it scales. This is a high-leverage role: the work you do here shapes how hundreds of millions of dollars flow to people who need it most.
This role reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer with significant ownership and autonomy — designed for a high-performing individual ready to take on a broad set of challenges, with an opportunity to expand scope and leadership as GiveDirectly grows.
What we’re looking for
- A structured problem-solver with 5–8 years of experience in a top-tier consulting, investment banking, private equity, or similarly rigorous environment.
- Highly analytical — you use data to generate insights and drive decisions.
- A clear, direct communicator — you cut through complexity and influence senior stakeholders with concise, well-structured thinking.
- Technically fluent — you have exceptional skills with spreadsheets and dashboards, and you are excited to apply AI and automation to real analytical problems.
- High ownership, low ego — you take responsibility for outcomes, prioritize ruthlessly, and follow through.
- Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity — you enjoy working on problems that don’t have a clean answer yet, and you bring genuine intellectual energy to questions about resource allocation and organizational scale.
- Systems-minded — you spot inefficiencies quickly and design processes, tools, or workflows that make teams.