Finance Business Partner at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE:

The role of the Financial Analysis and Business Partnering team is to provide strategic insight and effective finance partnering to key stakeholders to drive quality financial and business outcomes. The role is responsible for providing professional support to the Finance leadership team and Regional Finance teams to deliver high quality management reporting.

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the Centre Finance leadership and Regional teams with strong finance business partnering to ensure quality management information is obtained to enable the CO’s and Regions to delivery high quality outcomes for children.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Relevant finance and business partnering experience in a Chartered Accounting, Commercial or NGO environment.
• Well-developed analytical and business partnering skills.
• Excellent IT literacy including expertise in spread sheet modelling and.
• Proven experience in budgeting and forecasting
• Ability to liaise remotely with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility, tact and diplomacy
• Excellent stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills
• Ability to be proactive and logical in problem-solving scenarios
• Thorough – high attention to detail and takes pride in delivering accurate, high quality work
• A thorough understanding of financial systems and procedures.
• Strong time management skills with an ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, and obstacles, and an ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work to tight deadlines
• Conscientious and client focussed
• Maintains a calm disposition and positive outlook particularly when working under pressure
• A full appreciation of the value of co-operation, both internationally and within a team environment.
• Commitment to Save the Children values.
• Verbal and written fluency in English.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Strategic financial management and oversight on the regional activities to gain a greater understanding of the regional financial performance.
• Business Partner with the Regional leadership team and critical Country Offices to uplift overall performance. 
• Act as a business partner for senior stakeholders providing guidance, advice and dealing with all finance-related queries.
• Capacity building of the Regional finance and CO finance leadership teams.
• Support the SCI Finance leadership with implementation of the budgeting and forecasting process, including the design of tools, templates and guidance.
• Business Partner with key Centre, Regional and CO stakeholders to support on KPI improvements.
• Provide management reporting and KPI commentary for allocated areas, including MPP and Quarterly reporting process.
• Meaningful financial analysis to support strategic and management decision making for SCI Leadership team and other key stakeholders.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver targets and financial KPIs including benefit realisation from strategic projects.
• Provide remote technical support and commercial guidance on various CO and Regional operational activities.
• Recommend internal process improvement as required, to enable high quality finance support to business partners.
• Support Finance projects where required and including the on-boarding of transformation projects into BAU processes within Financial Analysis and Business Partnering remit.

QUALIFICATIONS  

• ACA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent, or relevant experience 

Desirable:

• Experience in working at a CO or Regional Level Finance leadership role at SCI or any other INGO.
• Basic working knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic.
• Experienced in a multi-currency multi sector finance environment.

Closing date: 25 April 2022