The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is dedicated to advancing human potential and promoting equal opportunity through technology, grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work. They are looking for bold ideas — regardless of structure and stage — and help them scale by pairing world-class engineers with subject matter experts to build tools that accelerate the pace of social progress.
The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team is a small high energy team providing finance partnership to leaders across all initiatives and functions. They provide analysis to support strategic decisions, conduct financial reviews of a wide range of business issues, and manage financial processes such as planning, forecasting, reporting and measuring initiatives’ performance.
Location:
United StatesBenefits
- Opportunity for advancing potential and promoting equal opportunity through world-class engineering, grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work
- Opportunity to assist with financial planning processes related to headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Partner with initiative teams to build measurement metrics for potential technologies, projects, grants, or investments to help drive decisions around prioritization, go-to-market planning and/or resourcing level
- Opportunity to build-out robust financial planning processes and tools, as well as identify and drive new relevant company-level metrics
- Participate in cross-functional company task forces on various projects including system implementation, monthly operating reviews, and annual result reporting
Eligibilities
- Actively seeks a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups — women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, and people from low-income families
- A highly motivated student with exceptional analytical skills are encouraged
- Pursuing an undergraduate degree; major or concentration in Finance, Accounting, or related field preferred
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail and follow-through
- Ability to work independently and demonstrated judgment to know when to ask for help
- Ability to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment; no egos
- Comfort with ambiguity in a rapidly changing environment
- Technologically proficient, particularly with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
