Finance Manager – Humanitarian Surge Team at Save the Children

About us 

The Global Expertise and Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP) is Save the Children's global humanitarian surge, technical expertise and new business development deployment management function, operating on behalf of both members and SCI. It is dedicated to identifying, developing and deploying skilled and experienced talent from across the movement to meet the needs of our domestic and international programmes and humanitarian responses. Our vision is to help to improve the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of our humanitarian responses and programmes; directly contributing to Save the Children's capability to deliver the best outcomes for children and their families. 

Humanitarian Surge Team (HSTs) work alongside country, regional and member teams to support the scale up and management of international and domestic emergency responses, enabling positive change for children. The role of the surge staff varies depending on the needs of the response and could include:

• deploying in the first days or hours following a natural disaster or crisis to lead the first phase of a response to sudden onset emergency;
• supporting ongoing emergency response and recovery work through providing advice, guidance and expertise in a specific skill area;
• providing short term interim cover for country office staff; 
• supporting delivery of capacity building initiatives. 

QUALIFICATIONS  

• Educated to a degree level
• Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CFA etc) or equivalent professional experience

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Substantial experience of financial management in an international context, including on humanitarian responses
• Knowledge of the requirements and experience managing grants from the major emergency donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting
• Strong people manager, competent in coaching and mentoring others
• Good attention to detail and analytical skills - takes pride in delivering accurate, high quality work
• Excellent IT literacy including expertise in spread sheet modelling
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
• 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
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate fluently in English (both verbal and written), with experience in managing multicultural teams
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement around financial controls and proceduresExcellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate to colleagues from a range of departments about complex financial issues

Desirable

• Extensive experience, including first phase responses, with NGOs in an international emergency environment or in fragile states with increasing responsibilities
• Knowledge of the Agresso finance system
• Experienced in a multi-currency multi sector finance environment
• Experience with Save the Children financial processes, procedures and systems
• Understanding of award management policies, procedures and systems and Save the Children’s award management system (AMS)
• Fluency in French, Spanish or Arabic