Chief Financial Officer

The Job

Full-time remote position based in the US.

Position Overview

Splash is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to lead the organization’s financial strategy, globalfinancial management, compliance, risk oversight, and long-term financial stability and sustainability.

The CFO will serve as a key member of the global management team and a strategic partner to the CEO, Board Treasurer, Finance Committee, Development team, and country leadership. The role requires strong technical accounting and finance skills, excellent judgment, experienceoperatingacross international settings, and the ability to translate financial complexity into clear decisions that strengthen program implementation, donor confidence, government partnership, and long-term organizational sustainability.

As Splash enters a new phase of multi-country growth, the CFO role will become increasingly important to building the financial architecture required to support government-partnered scale, donor-funded infrastructure delivery, government co-financing, VAT and tax exposure, multi-currency risk, and a broader blended-finance approach to scaling impact.

The CFO does not need to personallyleadall external financing work. In support of the Development team, however, they must understand enough of the capital landscape to help Splash think holistically about how different types of funding can support different parts of the work, including infrastructure, technical assistance, government systems strengthening, operations and maintenance, and long-term sustainability.

A key part of the role will be translating that complexity into clear guidance for non-finance audiences. The CFO should be able to explain the benefits, limitations, risks, tradeoffs, andappropriate usesof different financing approaches for the CEO, Board, Development team, country leaders, and other organizational stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities

Financial Strategy, Sustainability, and Blended Finance

• Lead the development of Splash’s long-term financial strategy in alignment with organizational growth, government partnership, and impact goals.

• Help Splash build a more sophisticated capital strategy that distinguishes between philanthropic funding, catalytic capital, government co-financing, donor-funded infrastructure, technicalassistance, and long-term public ownership.

• Partner with the CEO, Development team, and program leadership to assess how different funding sources can supportdifferent needsacross the organization.

• Support financial modeling for government co-financing, donor match requirements, phased implementation, working capital needs, and long-term sustainability.

• Advisethe CEO and Board on tradeoffs related to scale, risk, unrestricted reserves, cost recovery, donor restrictions, and country-level financial exposure.

• Lead scenario planning and financial modeling for multi-year growth, including delayed disbursements, foreign exchange exposure, government payment timing, implementation shifts, and funding gaps.

• Build financial models that incorporate inflation, foreign exchange exposure, country-specific cost assumptions, and implementationtimingso multi-year budgets are realistic and decision-useful.

Global Financial Management & Reporting

• Oversee global budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and financial reporting across Splash’s US and international operations.

• Ensuretimely,accurate, and decision-useful reporting for the CEO, management team, Board, Finance Committee, donors, and country teams.

• Strengthen financial dashboards and analysis so country, regional, and global teams can track burn rates against activities, deliverables, restricted donor budgets, and implementation progress in real time or near-real time.

• Manage organizational cash flow, reserves, restricted and unrestricted funding, and liquidity planning.

• Partner with program and Development teams to ensure budgets, forecasts, and donor reports accurately reflect implementation realities.

• Support budget modeling for new opportunities, including overall project budgets, donor-specific restricted budgets, match or co-financing assumptions, cost recovery, and implementation timelines.

• Ensure grant budgets, cost recovery, indirect cost allocation, and donor reporting are disciplined, transparent, and aligned with Splash’s operating model.

Government Co-Financing and Public Finance

• Support the design and financial oversight of government co-financing arrangements, including contribution models, annual workplans, budget alignment, and fund-flow options.

• Help assess the financial implications of government-funded implementation, direct government procurement, contractor payments, cost-share commitments, and delayed public disbursements.

• Partner with country teams to ensure government co-financing commitments are financially realistic, well documented, appropriately accounted for, andmonitored.

• Support financial analysis related to public-sector ownership, operations and maintenance, and the long-term transition of responsibility to government systems.

• Bring practical understanding of the risks and realities of operating in low-income settings, including public finance cycles, procurement constraints, documentation gaps, currency exposure, and varying local accounting capacity.

International Compliance, VAT, Tax, and Risk

• Ensure compliance with US nonprofit requirements, donor regulations, accounting and audit standards, and relevant international financial regulations.

• Oversee financial operations across multiple countries and entities, including registration, statutory compliance, local audit requirements, payroll, tax, banking, and accounting practices.

• Manage VAT, withholding tax, recoverability, exemptions, and other country-level tax issues that affect donor budgets, infrastructure delivery, and local contracting.

• Lead the annual audit process and manage relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, legal advisors, and other technical consultants.

• Maintain strong risk management practices across global financial operations, including internal controls, segregation of duties, fraud prevention, procurement controls, and documentation standards.

Systems, Controls, and Operational Discipline

• Build andmaintainstrong financial systems, policies, processes, and internal controls that support a growing global organization.

• Strengthen financial technology, reporting tools, data integrity, and cross-country accounting processes.

• Build and enforce the accounting and reporting architecture needed to track restricted funds by donor, project, activity, deliverable, country, budget line, and spending status.

• Strengthen budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, cost documentation, and approval processes so they are clear, efficient, and scalable.

• Ensure finance processes support procurement, contracting, and implementation without making finance a bottleneck.

• Drive a culture of financial accountability, transparency, andtimelydecision-making.