Global Controller

The Global Controller oversees Anera’s day-to-day accounting operations and ensures timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting across the organization. This role is central to maintaining financial integrity through oversight of the global month-end close, account reconciliations, internal controls, and consolidation of financial data. The Global Controller supports audit readiness, compliance efforts, and cross-border financial alignment, in close coordination with regional and country finance teams.

The Controller plays a critical leadership role within the Global Finance team, collaborating with program, development, compliance, and country office finance staff to ensure that financial processes support organizational goals and donor requirements.

Objectives:

• Serve as Anera’s principal compliance and accounting authority across HQ and country offices.
• Lead external audits, tax filings, internal controls, and policy standardization.
• Partner with country and regional finance leaders to align local practices with global standards and align global financial policies.
• Support CFO with leading organizational-wide financial stewardship, global systems optimization and financial data governance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the global month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring timely consolidation of financial results across country offices.
• Oversee general ledger integrity and ensure timely, clean reconciliations for all balance sheet accounts.
• Maintain oversight of global banking relationships, account structures, and controls.
• Manage the US/Global accounting team, overseeing accounts payable, cash receipts, payroll, and banking transactions.
• Maintain and strengthen internal controls and compliance protocols.
• Coordinate annual global and local country external audits.
• Partner with the Director of FP&A and country finance leads to ensure alignment between financial planning and accounting systems.
• Manage Sage Intacct system, including integrations between Sage Intacct and other platforms.
• Identify opportunities to streamline financial operations and reduce manual workloads.

Collaboration & Support

• Provide technical guidance to Country Office finance staff and serve as a subject matter expert.
• Partner with the Director of FP&A to support consolidated financial reporting and budget-to-actual variance analysis.
• Respond to ad hoc financial data and reporting requests.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field required.
• Minimum 10 years’ progressive experience in accounting, including global or multi-entity consolidations.
• At least 3 years in a supervisory or leadership role.
• Nonprofit experience required; international NGO experience strongly preferred.
• Strong familiarity with fund accounting, restricted funds, and donor reporting.
• Expertise in financial systems, particularly Sage Intacct.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent in English; Arabic desirable.
• CPA, CFA or equivalent credential preferred.

Travel: Up to 10% annually (US and international).

This position is based in the United States, Palestine, Lebanon, or Jordan and is open only to nationals of those countries.