Chief Financial Officer

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ABOUT SPLASH:

Splash is a global nonprofit organization founded in 2007, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. Since 2007, we have completed more than 2,500 projects that serve over 1.2 million children each day. Currently focused on cities in East and Southern Africa, Splash delivers the clean water, clean toilets, and dignified menstrual health resources that every child deserves through comprehensive water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health (WASH-M) services and behavior change programs across 100% of a city's public schools.

Our vision is global impact without Splash, made possible through partnerships with national governments, co-creation with local communities, and replication far beyond our day-to-day involvement.

In 2019, we began testing and refining Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), a cost-effective and replicable blueprint designed to reach 100% of public schools in fast-growing, complex cities in partnership with local governments and community leaders. In five years, we achieved our goals in Ethiopia and India, and we began our next phase of expansion in East and Southern Africa in 2025.

Our Core Values: People First | Quality | Honesty | Joy | Learn from Mistakes.

Splash values the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the organization, and we are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment. To learn more, please visit splash.org.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead our global financial strategy, compliance, risk oversight, and long-term sustainability. Serving on the global management team, the CFO will partner closely with the CEO, Board, and country leaders to build the financial architecture required for government-partnered scale, blended finance, and multi-country expansion.

ROLES AND 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, technical assistance, and long-term public ownership.

- Own the financial impact of program changes, tracing how new operational standards or models affect costs, budgets, and donor agreements.

- Partner with the CEO, Development team, and program leadership to assess how different funding sources can support different needs across the organization.

- Help answer existential financial questions regarding long-term sustainability, such as how national scale work is sustained beyond initial philanthropy and what happens financially after Splash exits a country.

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

- Advise the 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 implementation timing so 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.

- Maintain full ownership of core financial operations, US GAAP compli