Finance Business Partner - International Programs job at Save the Children International

Vacancy title:
Finance Business Partner - International Programs

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Accounting & Finance ]

Jobs at:

Save the Children International

Deadline of this Job:
25 April 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, April 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
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.

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.
• Provide In-country and surge support in country and regional offices as required.
• Undertake additional duties, supporting other senior Finance staff as and when required.

Skills and Behaviours (SCI Values in Practice)
• Accountability:holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
• Ambition:
• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Collaboration:
• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, budget holders, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
• Creativity:
• develops and encourages new and innovative solutionswilling to take disciplined risks
• Integrity:
• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Qualifications
• ACA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent, or relevant experience
• 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.
• Desirable
• Experience in working at a CO or Regional Level Finance leadership role at SCI or any
• Basic working knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic.
• Experienced in a multi-currency multi sector finance environment.

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply follow this link https://stcuk.taleo.net/careersection/application.jss?type=1&lang=en&portal=101430233&reqNo=76411 

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Job Info
Job Category: Accounting/ Finance jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 25 April 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 08-04-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 08-04-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 08-04-2066
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