Job Title: Project Finance Specialist Reports To: Senior Projects Portfolio Manager
Location: Hybrid / Remote
Employment Type: Contractor for Services
About Us: A New Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Gateway for the Caribbean.
Across the Caribbean, access to essential medicines still depends on distant and often vulnerable supply chains. When those systems are disrupted, the consequences are immediate, affecting health systems, economies, and communities alike.
Barbados Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BPI) was established to help change that trajectory.
As a pharmaceutical sector accelerator and investment facilitator, BPI is building manufacturing capacity and supply chain resilience across the Caribbean while creating a gateway that connects regional demand with global pharmaceutical expertise, investment, and technology.
This is not simply about developing an industry. It is about strengthening health security, enabling economic diversification, and positioning the Caribbean within global pharmaceutical value chains. Through partnerships with manufacturers, investors, governments, and research institutions, BPI is creating opportunities to build, invest, and scale pharmaceutical production for the region and beyond.
Job Summary
The Project Finance Specialist/Manager provides comprehensive support to the Senior Project Portfolio Manager and drives the financial preparation, analysis of financial data, and reporting that underpin BPl’s project portfolio. The role takes ownership of project finance modelling expenditure monitoring, treasury awareness, and funder-facing documentation, and contributes specialist financial input across the full project lifecycle. The Specialist/Manager is expected to be proactive, technically rigorous, and effective in translating complex financial information into clear insight for management, partners and external funders. The role is expected to support project coordination in a proactive, engaged, and effective manner in providing ongoing support throughout the entire project’s life cycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Portfolio Coordination and Project Oversight
- Assist in identifying project interdependencies, resource constraints, and cross-project
- Monitor project plans and recommend opportunities to streamline schedules, processes, and reporting.
- Support the maintenance of portfolio dashboards, status updates, and milestone tracking systems with project specified project lead.
- Project Finance and Investment Readiness
- Lead financial modeling, scenario planning, and forecasting to support strategic and investment decisions across projects.
- Contribute to regular updates and prepare information to share with the Senior Project Portfolio Manager for analysis of the financial performance of a project or
- Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets and financing
- Assist in preparing projects for approvals, financing, and implementation of readiness including revenue models.
- Support cash flow forecasting and treasury awareness for projects, including monitoring of FX exposure where relevant.
- Monthly gathering and preparing financial information necessary for the project reconciliations.
- Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets and financing
- Participation in creation and updating of the financial statements and related disclosures; as well as supporting on preparation of financial data for analysis and formulation of budgets and forecasts
- Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Management
- Support day-to-day engagement with external project leads, consultants, investors, and implementation partners.
- Liaise with partners on joint initiatives to ensure BPI financial targets and performance metrics are achieved.
- Prepare meeting briefs, minutes, action trackers, and follow-up communications related to project financials, risks, and opportunities.
- Reporting and Analysis
- Prepare upon request project financial reports and inputs into project specified briefing notes or presentations. Recommend process improvements to strengthen project governance, financing readiness, and stakeholder coordination.
- Ensure project records, agreements, and financial documents are maintained accurately.
- Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Mathematics, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Statistics, or related fields.
- Professional certification in Finance, Investment Analysis, or Project Management is an asset.
- Minimum of 7+ years’ experience in project finance, corporate finance, treasury, investment analysis, finance, operations or project coordination finance related roles.
- Experience supporting infrastructure, manufacturing, healthcare, multi-national companies, or public-sector projects is preferred.
- Strong understanding of project financing structures, fund management, scenario planning and financial modelling.
- Exposure to ERP systems(e.g. SAP and experience migrating from spreadsheet-based to ERP-based financial reporting is an asset.
- Experience supporting cross-border, regional, or multi-country projects is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience preparing financial information and analysis for board, committee, or external funder review.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and project reporting tools.
Key Competencies
- Commercial and investment awareness including ERP and financial systems literacy
- Financial modelling, scenario planning and analytical skills
- Commercial and investment awareness
- Treasury and cash flow awareness
- Government and regulator engagement
- Capacity to support function build-out in new or evolving organisations
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills
- Stakeholder management and communication including with government, regulators, and external funders
- Attention to detail and problem-solving
- Ability to work in dynamic, high-priority environments
- Strategic thinking and results orientation
All applications should be sent to hr_bpi@investbarbados.org, with a copy to NMason@investbarbados.org by June 22, 2026.