Location: India, Remote - needs to be able to work in US time zone (EST/PST)
Employment Status: Regular, Full-Time
Reports To: Global Finance/Operations Leadership
Supervisory Responsibilities: Day-to-day leadership and supervision of India-based accounting staff
Job Summary
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is an independent, mission-driven global organization working to advance a clean, reliable, and equitable energy future. With teams and operations spanning the United States, Europe, China, India, and other markets, RAP works across jurisdictions while maintaining the strong financial stewardship, accountability, and compliance expected of an international nonprofit organization.
RAP is entering an important period of organizational growth and evolution. As our global operations become increasingly interconnected, we have an opportunity to strengthen the systems, capabilities, and shared services that support our work across regions. Finance is a critical part of this evolution. We are focused on building a more integrated and scalable finance function that combines strong local and entity-level accountability with consistent global standards, better financial insight, and clearer ownership of core processes.
As part of this work, RAP is proposing to expand its internal finance capacity in India. The objective is broader than adding transactional accounting support. We have an opportunity to build a high-performing finance team with expertise spanning United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, nonprofit and grant accounting, global reconciliations, financial planning and analysis, reporting, systems, and internal controls.
The proposed structure is designed to build long-term institutional capability within RAP, create meaningful career pathways for finance professionals in India, reduce dependency on external service providers, and position the finance function to support a larger and increasingly complex global organization.
The Sr Financial Analyst, Global Accounting is a senior hands-on finance professional responsible for strengthening RAP's accounting operations, financial analysis, management reporting, forecasting and internal controls.
The position leads RAP's India-based accounting team and works closely with the United States-based Accounting Manager and organizational leadership to ensure financial information is accurate, timely, well-controlled and useful for organizational decision-making.
This position combines technical accounting leadership with financial planning and analysis. They will review complex accounting activity, strengthen close and reconciliation processes, develop forecasts and management reporting, analyze financial performance and help build scalable global finance practices.
During RAP's finance transition, the position will also play a central role in transferring accounting activities from external providers to internal staff.
Essential Functions
Team Leadership
- Provide day-to-day leadership, work coordination and technical guidance to India-based accounting staff.
- Establish priorities and deadlines in coordination with the Accounting Manager and Finance leadership.
- Review accounting work, reconciliations, analyses and schedules prepared by team members.
- Coach and develop staff and establish appropriate cross-training.
- Monitor workload, quality and completion of deliverables.
- Escalate significant technical, control, performance or capacity concerns.
- Establish clear accountability and documentation standards.
Accounting and Financial Controls
- Provide senior review of monthly and year-end close activities.
- Review complex journal entries, accruals, estimates, reclassifications and account analyses.
- Review significant balance-sheet reconciliations and investigate unresolved items.
- Support application of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and nonprofit accounting requirements.
- Review grant and restricted-funding accounting.
- Support intercompany accounting, eliminations and multi-entity reconciliations.
- Support multi-currency accounting and foreign exchange activity.
- Identify weaknesses in accounting processes and recommend corrective actions.
- Maintain strong segregation of duties and review controls.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Lead recurring budget-to-actual and variance analysis.
- Develop and maintain rolling organizational forecasts.
- Prepare cash-flow forecasts and liquidity analyses.
- Support annual budgeting and periodic reforecasting.
- Develop financial models and scenario analyses.
- Analyze staffing costs, grant utilization, indirect costs and cost recovery.
- Support resource allocation and labor-cost analysis.
- Identify emerging financial risks and trends.
- Translate financial results into clear recommendations for management.
Management and Board Reporting
- Develop recurring monthly and quarterly management reporting.
- Prepare financial schedules, analyses and narratives for executive leadership.
- Support preparation of Board financial packages.
- Develop and maintain financial dashboards and key performance indicators.
- Improve consistency, accuracy and automation of recurring reporting.
- Ensure management reporting can be reconciled to underlying accounting records.
Grants and Global Finance
- Provide senior financial analysis of restricted and unrestricted funding.
- Review grant budgets, actual expenditures and projected utilization.
- Support grant revenue recognition and financial reporting.
- Review cross-entity financial activity.
- Support development of consistent global accounting and financial reporting practices.
- Partner with Finance colleagues, payroll providers, external accountants and auditors across jurisdictions.
Audit and Compliance
- Coordinate preparation of assigned audit schedules and documentation.
- Support management of external audit requests.
- Monitor remediation of audit findings or control issues.
- Ensure accounting documentation is complete and audit-ready.
- Support tax and regulatory reporting preparation as assigned.
Systems, Data and Process Improvement
- Serve as a senior user of Sage Intacct and related financial systems.
- Build advanced Microsoft Excel models and reporting tools.
- Use Power Query, pivot tables, advanced formulas and related tools to analyze financial data.
- Support Power BI or other dashboard development where appropriate.
- Reconcile information across accounting, payroll, grants and timekeeping systems.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring finance processes.
- Develop accounting and reporting standard operating procedures.
Interim Finance Transformation Responsibilities Through December 2026- During the transition period, this position will:
- Lead operational knowledge transfer from RAP's outsourced accounting provider.
- Establish a formal process inventory and ownership matrix.
- Implement a standardized monthly close calendar.
- Establish reconciliation preparation and review standards.
- Identify historical and recurring balance-sheet issues.
- Support remediation of accounting discrepancies and control weaknesses.
- Establish recurring management reporting and forecasting.
- Develop a rolling cash-flow forecast.
- Improve financial dashboards and key performance indicators.
- Review resource allocation, labor costing, indirect costs and cost-recovery methodologies.
- Strengthen intercompany reconciliation processes.
- Support audit readiness.
- Identify activities suitable for internal ownership and those requiring continued specialist external support.
- Provide recommendations regarding the future global finance operating model.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce or related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive accounting and finance experience.
- Strong knowledge of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Significant general ledger, close and financial reporting experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading accounting staff.
- Demonstrated financial planning, forecasting and variance-analysis experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills.
- Experience reviewing complex account reconciliations.
- Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
- Strong analytical judgment and problem-solving capability.
- Professional fluency in English.
- Ability to work in other global time zones to collaborate with global team members
Preferred Qualifications
- Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants or comparable professional qualification.
- United States nonprofit accounting experience.
- Financial Accounting Standards Board nonprofit reporting experience.
- Grant and fund accounting experience.
- Sage Intacct experience.
- Power Query and Power BI experience.
- Multi-entity, intercompany and multi-currency experience.
- Experience supporting a United States-headquartered organization from India.
- Board or executive financial reporting experience.
- Experience within a global capability center, multinational organization or international nonprofit.
What Success Looks Like
RAP leadership receives reliable financial information and meaningful forward-looking analysis. Close and reconciliation processes are controlled and predictable, recurring problems are investigated to root cause, and the India finance team operates with increasing independence.
This role reduces dependence on external providers while strengthening internal capability, controls, reporting and financial decision support.