Director of Finance & Operations, Europe

YOUR POSITION WITH TNC
The Director of Finance & Operations, Europe serves as the region’s senior finance leader and operations integrator—the regional equivalent of a CFO with broader operations integration responsibilities. The role is a trusted partner to the Regional Managing Director, Europe and operates within a global matrix, with accountability to Global Finance for financial stewardship, standards, and alignment, and to the Regional Managing Director for regional strategy execution and organizational effectiveness.
In this role, the Director partners closely with both the Senior Director of Finance & Operations, Global Regions and the Regional Managing Director, Europe to support regional leadership, drive key priorities, and ensure effective execution across the Europe region. The role has broad Finance & Operations responsibility across a region that operates in multiple countries, while combining strategic oversight with practical hands-on leadership appropriate to the size, structure, and complexity of the region.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reporting to the Senior Director of Finance & Operations, Global Regions, with a dotted-line relationship to the Regional Managing Director, Europe, the Director serves on the Europe Leadership Team, leads the regional Finance & Operations team, and provides leadership and coordination across countries, programs, and enabling functions. The role also serves as Managing Director of the related entity through which TNC operates in Germany, with responsibility for its effective management and governance. The Director helps shape and execute regional priorities while contributing Europe perspectives and learning to TNC-wide Finance & Operations initiatives.
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Strategic Finance Leadership
Leads regional financial stewardship across Europe, including strategy, planning, forecasting, performance management, and long-term financial sustainability.
Serves as a senior financial advisor to the Regional Managing Director, Europe and senior regional leaders, providing forward-looking, integrated financial insight to inform strategic and operational decisions.
Leads regional budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year planning processes, ensuring rigor, consistency, and alignment with regional priorities and enterprise standards.
Establishes and reinforces financial discipline, resource optimization, and stewardship across the region.
Maintains forward-looking visibility into financial risks, funding pressures, and sustainability concerns, ensuring timely mitigation and escalation.
Ensures compliance with global finance policies, controls, reporting requirements, and audit standards, partnering with global finance leaders as required.
Contributes actively to the Global Regions Finance & Operations leadership team by sharing learning, advancing common approaches, and clearly articulating where regional differences or exceptions are necessary.
Regional Operations and Organizational Effectiveness
Acts as the regional operations integrator, providing senior-level oversight and coordination across support functions operating within the Europe region.
Establishes and manages the regional operating cadence for planning, prioritization, decision-making, execution tracking, and performance review, supported by clear accountability and governance mechanisms.
Drives organizational effectiveness and execution discipline by translating regional priorities into coherent plans, proactively identifying gaps in ownership, process, capacity, capability, or decision-making, and coordinating action to address them.
Contributes to regional capacity planning and resource allocation discussions, helping ensure trade-offs are made transparently and aligned to strategy.
Champions continuous improvement and operational excellence, embedding scalable, repeatable ways of working appropriate to the region’s size and structure.
Executive Partnership and Strategic Execution
Acts as a trusted strategic and operational partner to the Regional Managing Director, Europe, helping translate strategic intent into integrated operational and financial execution.
Supports leadership alignment and decision-making by synthesizing complex information into clear analysis, options, trade-offs, recommendations, and decisions needed rather than only identifying issues.
Coordinates and tracks strategic initiatives, ensuring progress, risks, and dependencies are actively managed and escalated.
Leads or contributes to enterprise Finance & Operations initiatives within the region, supporting effective implementation of global priorities.
Cross-Functional Integration and Matrix Leadership
Leads regional alignment of enabling functions operating within a global matrix, ensuring cohesive delivery in support of Europe priorities.
Influences outcomes without direct authority by building strong relationships, clarifying expectations, resolving competing priorities, and enabling transparent trade-off decisions.
Partners with global and regional functional leaders to adapt enterprise standards and operating models to regional context while maintaining consistency and compliance.
Clarifies ownership, decision rights, dependencies, timing, and escalation paths across functions and ensures material regional issues move toward resolution, while respecting the authority of functional leaders.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Oversees regional governance frameworks spanning financial, operational, compliance, legal, safety, and reputational risk.
Serves as Managing Director of the related entity through which TNC operates in Germany, fulfilling applicable governance, fiduciary, statutory, and organizational responsibilities in coordination with regional and global leadership.
Ensures effective controls, escalation mechanisms, and assurance processes are in place and operating as intended.
Ensures critical finance, operational, banking, compliance, and entity responsibilities have clear ownership, appropriate delegation, documented processes, and continuity coverage.
Oversees regional risk identification, mitigation, and reporting, ensuring material issues are elevated to appropriate leadership and governance bodies.
Promotes a culture of accountability, integrity, and stewardship, setting expectations for ethical and responsible management across the region.
Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Serves as a senior leader on key regional leadership and governance forums.
Builds and maintains trusted relationships with global, regional, and business unit leaders, enabling effective collaboration across a complex stakeholder landscape.
Leads and develops a multidisciplinary team by setting clear expectations, managing performance, delegating effectively, building leadership capability, and ensuring succession and backup coverage for critical responsibilities.
Represents the region and organization externally, including with donors, partners, and stakeholders, as required and in coordination with regional leadership.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree and 9 years related experience or equivalent combination, including 3 years managing operations functions and experience working at a senior level;
Experience managing the finances of a complex organization, business unit, region, or major program, including financial planning, forecasting, performance management, controls, and long-term financial sustainability;
Experience preparing, interpreting, and presenting financial and operational analyses, forecasts, and management reports to support senior leadership decisions;
Experience leading budgeting, forecasting, multi-year planning, resource allocation, and financial performance processes for a significant and complex portfolio;
Experience conceiving, developing, and managing multiple complex projects or strategic initiatives, including coordinating plans, tracking progress, and addressing risks and dependencies;
Management experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams, including setting direction, managing performance, delegating significant responsibilities, building leadership capability, and establishing succession or backup coverage;
Experience working in a complex, matrixed, and geographically dispersed organization and influencing outcomes across functions and reporting lines;
Experience supporting financial and operational governance, risk management, compliance, internal controls, and escalation processes;
Experience supporting finance and operations across multiple countries, including working with differing statutory, tax, regulatory, audit, donor, and financial reporting requirements;
Experience managing or providing senior oversight of a related legal entity, including governance, fiduciary, statutory, compliance, and reporting responsibilities;
Professional proficiency in both German and English, with the ability to communicate effectively in business, governance, and stakeholder settings;
Experience building effective relationships with senior leaders and diverse internal and external stakeho

Skills
Risk Management