POSITION PURPOSE
The Director – Finance, Administration & Chief Financial Officer (CFO) provides strategic leadership and executive oversight for GWPO's financial stewardship, fiduciary governance, institutional sustainability, corporate services architecture, and enterprise financial management systems across the GWPO Secretariat and the GWP Network.
The CFO underpins GWPO's institutional credibility, operational resilience, fiduciary integrity, and delivery capacity by ensuring sound financial governance, strategic resource management, robust internal controls, and effective corporate systems. The effectiveness of this role is fundamental to enabling GWPO's transformation into a globally trusted delivery and investment platform and sustaining the confidence of governments, development partners, multilateral development banks, climate finance institutions, investors, and strategic partners.
The CFO serves as GWPO's senior institutional authority on financial governance, fiduciary systems, corporate finance, treasury governance, financial sustainability, grant governance, enterprise risk management, and financial compliance architecture.
The position provides executive leadership across finance, administration, procurement, human resources administration systems, treasury governance, grant management systems, payroll governance, and corporate services functions supporting all global thematic, hub-based, and institutional operations.
The CFO leads strategic oversight of GWPO's decentralized financial governance architecture, including joint delivery and cost recovery frameworks, enterprise financial integration, financial harmonization across the GWP Network, and implementation of institutional fiduciary standards.
The CFO serves as a member of GWPO's Senior Management Team and works closely with the CEO & Executive Secretary, Steering Committee, Audit & Finance Subcommittee, Global Technical Committee, Regional Water Partnerships, host institutions, donors, auditors, governments, multilateral development banks, climate finance institutions, sovereign partners, and strategic stakeholders.
The Director shall lead a small but highly capable Finance & Administration Team responsible for sustaining, strengthening, and continuously modernizing GWPO's global financial management systems and practices across the GWP Network.
Certain operational responsibilities may be exercised directly or through delegated supervision and coordination of finance, treasury, payroll, grants management, procurement, and administrative personnel within the Finance & Administration function.
STRATEGIC RESPONSIBILITIES
The Director shall:
* Serve as GWPO's Chief Financial Officer and provide executive leadership of the Finance & Administration function across the GWPO Secretariat and GWP Network;
* Lead implementation of GWPO's financial and administrative strategy in support of the GWP Strategy 2026–2030 and the Global Transformation Agenda on Water Investments;
* Lead development and implementation of relevant GWPO financial policies, fiduciary systems, grant-making policies, cost recovery policies, and enterprise financial governance frameworks;
* Safeguard GWPO's financial sustainability, liquidity position, and long-term institutional viability;
* Position GWPO as a credible and globally trusted fiduciary, delivery, and investment implementation partner for governments, MDBs, climate finance institutions, bilateral donors, sovereign partners, and private sector actors;
* Lead institutional financial architecture for GWPO's joint delivery and cost recovery framework, including governance structures, allocation principles, sustainability mechanisms, and financial oversight across decentralized delivery systems;
* Lead full strategic oversight and institutional integration of GWPO's Network Integrated Financial Management and Reporting System (NIFMARS) across the GWP Network;
* Provide strategic leadership for harmonization of financial governance, fiduciary standards, enterprise financial systems, and financial management practices across the GWP Network;
* Lead institutional financial sustainability planning, long-term scenario modelling, liquidity strategy, and revenue diversification mechanisms;
* Strengthen fiduciary assurance, internal controls, compliance systems, enterprise risk management, and audit responsiveness across GWPO-led and jointly delivered programmes;
* Oversee institutional fiduciary frameworks, accreditation-related financial governance systems, and financial due diligence standards applicable to RWPs, CWPs, host institutions, implementing partners, and strategic delivery entities;
* Lead development and execution of financial management systems and institutional financial strategies supporting GWPO's ambition to help mobilize and influence USD 15 billion in water investments by 2030.
CORE FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial Strategy, Planning and Sustainability
* Develop and oversee GWPO's multi-year financial management strategy, annual budgets, and medium-term financial forecasts;
* Lead enterprise financial planning, institutional resource allocation, liquidity management strategy, and long-term sustainability modelling;
* Integrate portfolio-based delivery and joint-delivery cost-recovery mechanisms into institutional financial planning and operational architecture;
* Support the financial sustainability of GWPO's delivery and Global Investment Platform (GIP) through scenario planning, cost optimization, and revenue diversification;
* Lead GWPO strategic funding partners, donors engagements with their respective CFOs including senior financial representatives of governments, G20 countries, MDBs, climate funds, sovereign financing institutions, and development partners;
* Advise the CEO & Executive Secretary and Senior Management Team on institutional financial strategy, sustainability risks, and financial implications of strategic decisions;
* Ensure financial sustainability of the dual GWPO Headquarters and decentralized GWPO technical support hubs across Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean.
Financial Governance, Treasury and Enterprise Controls
* Provide executive oversight of accounting, treasury governance, cash management frameworks, payroll governance, and enterprise financial reporting systems;
* Ensure robust internal controls, segregation of duties, delegated authority frameworks, and enterprise financial risk management systems;
* Oversee institutional financial policies, procedures, controls, and compliance frameworks;
* Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, donor financial regulations, and institutional fiduciary obligations;
* Provide executive oversight of payroll governance, pension and insurance financial frameworks, and staff financial entitlement systems;
* Oversee payroll governance frameworks, payroll quality control systems, and institutional compensation administration controls;
* Oversee strategic financial governance of bank account structures, treasury frameworks, liquidity controls, and institutional financial reconciliations;
* Ensure institutional coordination with pension and insurance providers and oversee governance of staff benefit frameworks and related financial obligations;
* Oversee strategic review and market comparison of insurance, pension, and related corporate service providers to ensure institutional effectiveness, competitiveness, and value for money.
Portfolio, Programme and Network Financial Oversight
* Provide strategic financial oversight of GWPO-led programmes and programmes jointly delivered with Regional and Country Water Partnerships and strategic partners;
* Oversee financial governance of grant-making, programme financial management, and delivery-related financial accountability systems;
* Support programme costing, financial modelling, and budget negotiations during programme development and contracting processes;
* Monitor institutional portfolio financial performance, financial sustainability indicators, and enterprise financial risk exposure;
* Guide implementation of financial governance systems supporting decentralized operational delivery and hub-based institutional structures;
* Provide oversight and strategic support on financial and contractual matters involving RWPs, CWPs, host institutions, and implementing partners;
* Review funding applications for regional, country, thematic, and programmatic activities to ensure compliance with GWPO financial and fiduciary requirements.
Donor Compliance, Fiduciary Assurance and Audit
* Ensure full compliance with donor agreements, funding conditions, financial reporting obligations, and institutional fiduciary requirements;
* Serve as GWPO's senior institutional focal point for fiduciary engagement with donors, development banks, climate finance institutions, auditors, host governments, and strategic funding partners;
* Provide executive oversight of internal and external audit processes and ensure timely implementation of audit recommendations;
* Oversee institutional fiduciary due diligence systems, accreditation-related financial governance mechanisms, and financial compliance frameworks;
* Guide institutional financial risk mitigation systems and enterprise compliance monitoring frameworks;
* Maintain executive oversight
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