Finance Manager

Real opportunities. Real impact. Your career, redefined.

(NOTE: A human reviews every application at Oceans, so please apply for only one position and only once a year —if you're a better fit for another role, we’ll route your application accordingly and if we’re not quite ready for you, we’ll reach back out later.)

At Oceans, we help the best and brightest of Sri Lanka to take advantage of opportunities that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them, while supporting entrepreneurs around the world. Our community (we call them Divers ) don’t do surface work—they go deep to solve complex challenges and make a real impact. And in doing so, they support bold ideas, expand their skills, broaden their expertise, and grow their careers, all without having to leave family and friends.

As the Finance Manager, you'll take ownership of day-to-day finance operations while acting as a trusted financial partner to senior leadership and internal department owners. You'll be responsible for keeping financial records accurate and audit-ready while ensuring transactions, payments, reconciliations, reporting, and finance systems run smoothly.

This is a hands-on finance role that combines accounting operations with financial analysis and business partnership. You'll personally manage transactional finance work while also supporting budget tracking, forecasting, dashboards, compliance, and financial decision-making. You'll work across a broad finance technology environment and collaborate with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Accountability

Your success as the Finance Manager will be defined by your ability to maintain accurate, reliable, and well-organized financial operations while giving leadership and department owners the financial visibility they need to make informed decisions.

Here's how you'll make an impact

Transactional Bookkeeping & Accounts Management

• Manage approximately 100–150 financial transactions per week, ensuring they are accurately recorded and supported by appropriate documentation.

• Manage accounts payable workflows, including reviewing, coding, and processing vendor bills and payments.

• Oversee employee expense reporting and ensure expenses are submitted promptly and coded accurately.

• Communicate directly with vendors to resolve invoice and payment questions.

• Record and reconcile donations and other revenue.

• Reconcile bundled online donation payments and maintain accurate revenue records.

• Maintain alignment between financial records and fundraising performance tracking.

• Keep supporting documentation organized across finance workflows.

Month-End & Reconciliations

• Perform monthly bank reconciliations across organizational accounts.

• Maintain accurate transaction coding and supporting records throughout the month.

• Independently support month-end accounting activities.

• Work with the outsourced accounting provider through the monthly close process.

• Review post-close financial information for accuracy.

• Identify discrepancies, investigate underlying causes, and ensure issues are resolved.

• Maintain clean and audit-ready financial records throughout the year.

Budgeting, Reporting & Financial Analysis

• Own the post-close process for communicating financial performance to department owners.

• Prepare budget-versus-actual reporting and investigate significant variances.

• Help department leaders understand their financial performance and budget position.

• Support budget adjustments based on actual results.

• Build and maintain visual financial dashboards.

• Prepare leadership-facing financial reporting and financial presentations.

• Support financial planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis.

• Translate financial information into clear recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.

Cash Flow, Banking & Currency Exposure

• Maintain visibility into incoming and outgoing cash activity.

• Reconcile online donation receipts and bundled payments.

• Support payment workflows and ensure payment information remains accurate.

• Monitor USD/ILS exchange rates and assess their impact on organizational expenses.

• Surface material currency exposure and relevant financial considerations to leadership.

• Provide financial information to support cash flow and budget decisions.

Audit, Tax & Compliance

• Prepare and organize supporting information for the annual external audit.

• Support preparation of Form 990 documentation.

• Maintain audit-ready financial records throughout the year.

• Support applicable state compliance and sales tax filings.

• Respond to requests for financial documentation, schedules, and supporting information.

• Ensure information required by external accounting and compliance providers is complete and organized.

• Apply sound accounting principles and established financial controls across day-to-day operations.

Finance Systems & Data Management

• Maintain accurate financial information across systems including Sage Intacct, Bill.com, Ramp, Salesforce, and Google Sheets.

• Identify and resolve discrepancies between finance and operational systems.

• Improve finance workflows and data-management processes.

• Use spreadsheets for financial analysis, reporting, modeling, and dashboard creation.

• Ensure finance data remains reliable and usable for both accounting and management reporting.

• Use AI and translation tools appropriately to improve efficiency without replacing accounting judgment or source documentation.

Process Improvement & Administrative Operations

• Identify opportunities to improve finance and administrative workflows.

• Maintain organized and scalable processes as the organization grows.

• Improve internal budget-tracking systems and administrative processes.

• Support payroll administration and related vendor processes where required.

• Provide guidance to staff on expense submissions, coding, and financial policies.

• Look for ways to reduce repetitive administrative work while