Senior Associate, Finance and Operations

Location: We’re open to candidates residing in Mexico, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Please note we currently do not have the infrastructure to support VISA sponsorship and you must be living and authorized to work in this location

Hours per week:  35-40 hours/week depending on local labour laws. Our global roles require some flexibility to enable working with colleagues across different timezones. 

Compensation: Salaries at CPI are mapped to region of residence and are non-negotiable to counter inequity. Please read our Salary and Benefits section below for more details and our 2025 salary bands. 

Closing Date: February 2, 2025, 23:59/11:59PM Central Standard Time. Please apply by the closing date as the portal closes automatically and we will not be able to reopen it.

About the Centre for Public Impact (CPI)

At the Centre for Public Impact, we believe in the transformative potential of government to improve lives and create better outcomes for all. Yet, we recognize that many of today’s government systems, structures, and processes are not yet designed to address the complex challenges of our time. That’s why we are committed to reimagining government- working towards systems that serve everyone, equitably, and effectively. 

As a not-for-profit organization founded by the Boston Consulting Group, we act as a learning partner for governments, public servants, and a diverse network of change makers. Though we are a small organization, our global footprint is expansive. We have dedicated and innovative teams in Asia, Australia/ Aotearoa New Zealand,  Europe and North America. We are supported by our Global Hub  team who provide people & culture, operational, finance, and communications partnership across the regions.

Our Values 

• Curiosity - We champion exploration and creativity.

• Courage - We are authentic and brave in our decisions and actions.

• Collaboration - We share power and work together.

• Empathy - We embrace others’ perspectives and experiences.

• Equity - We disrupt systemic barriers to shift power.

Role and Key Responsibilities 

At CPI, we believe that our people are at the heart of our success. We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Finance and Operations team who will play an important role in supporting our Finance function across our regions. Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Assist Finance Manager with processing accounts receivable (AR): record entries, supervise authorization process in accordance with internal procedures, monitor AR ageing reports, process and pay vendors.

• Process credit card (Airwallex) expenses, ensuring items are correctly coded and authorized.

• Process staff expenses, ensuring items are correctly coded and authorized.

• Assist Finance Manager with processing sales invoices for customers. Record expenses from coaches/partners, ensure accurate authorization and process payments.

• During the month end process, assist the Finance Manager to ensure that all balance sheet items are reconciled and suspense/clearance accounts are cleared.

• Assist with preparing monthly management reports and reviewing performance against budgets.

• Work with our regional teams to agree supplier contracts and set up suppliers in our financial systems; ensure our internal financial policies & procedures are followed, including performing supplier verifications.

• Assist Finance Manager with annual audit preparation.

• Communicate with Finance and Non-Finance colleagues to obtain all information required by Finance and to explain our accounting processes

• Act as backup for Finance teams in other regions to support workstreams and provide assistance during busy periods.

The core competencies for this role are linked here.

Who are we looking for?

We understand that not everyone may meet all of our requirements because of how systems in the world enable (or disable) accessibility for different groups based on our identities and socio-economic status. We have divided the skills, knowledge and attributes we’re looking for into what is essential and non-negotiable for us (our candidates will need these to be successful in the role) and those that are desirable and we would love if you possess them already, but we are also open to you learning them as you work with us. 

Essential

• Experience working in the non-profit/social impact 

• Commitment to cultivating a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace.

• Hold 4+ years work experience in a Finance department, with hands-on experience of accounting software and booking financial transactions.

• Knowledge of accounting processes and controls and the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processes.

• Willingness to have a flexible working schedule to accommodate colleagues in different time zones.

• Have high integrity, with the ability to hold confidential information and conversations tightly and excellent interpersonal skills to build new relationships, and negotiate challenging conversations if necessary.

• Comfortable speaking and writing in English for day-to-day work and communication. 

Desirable

• Aptitude to improve our IT systems and experience of system change.

• Experience collaborating with programme teams to understand the work they do and why and helping create systems and processes that are consistent with team values and ways of working.

Salary, Benefits, and How to Apply

The salary range for this role is mapped to years of experience and region and you can find our 2025 salary bands here. At the Centre for Public Impact, we are committed to countering pay inequality and recently completed a global compensation benchmarking process to ensure that we're paying our staff fairly and well for the roles that they hold and therefore, salaries at CPI are non-negotiable.

We currently do not have salary bands for Mexico, and if you reside in Mexico and are successful in advancing in your candidacy, we want to be transparent that we may need to extend our hiring process timeline (possibly by a month) to allow CPI to expand our infrastructure further to support you. This means that we warmly welcome your application, and that our timelines will necessarily be more emergent (including the ability to provide transparent salary data for Mexico) with a delay in the start date based on the review of your application and the outcomes of the interview process.

CPI offers comprehensive benefits to its employees including a range of high-quality health, dental, and vision plans for individuals and their families; pension contribution as applicable; dedicated professional development funds; generous paid leave and public holidays; paid parental leave and extended illness leave; and a year-end organisation-wide closure.  We are a remote-first organisation open to qualified candidates anywhere in the countries listed above. We anticipate this position will require approximately 2-3  travel events per year.

To advance our purpose of reimagining government so that it works for everyone, CPI seeks to attract and support a diversity of backgrounds, experience, talent and thought. For this reason, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes candidates that have previously found it hard to be considered for other positions on the basis of their disabilities, personal background or life events. If you would like to apply for the position but see a barrier to joining us, please do apply and we will work with you to find a solution. You can also read our full Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy here.

We are using Applied in order to reduce bias in our hiring process and ensure that we are shortlisting candidates based on their skills and ideas. Please note that we do not ask for a cover letter and instead, the application requires four paragraph-length answers.

We understand applicants may need to use AI tools as thought partners or for light assistance during the application process. However, we are looking for original work that reflects your unique perspective, skills and reflections borne out of lived experiences. Please do not submit content that is directly copied or heavily reliant on AI as these will be flagged and marked down. All answers are anonymised, then read and reviewed one by one by humans on the review team who score your sift responses to ensure applications maintain authenticity, so any AI-generated content should be thoughtfully integrated rather than directly pasted.

CPI is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, colour, caste, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.