Role Purpose:

The role of the Financial Analysis and Business Partnering team is to provide quality strategic insight and effective finance partnering to key stakeholders to drive quality financial and business outcomes.

The role holder will be responsible for supporting the TD/IT Finance team with the production of monthly management accounts, budgets and forecasts, and delivery of data led insight and analysis to drive effective decision making. SCI IT currently provides a portfolio of 15+ shared services and operations globally across SCA, delivering services to all Save the Children Members, through multiple commercial arrangements. This will continue to increase both in scope, complexity and coverage going forward, and already represents a significant element of SCI ITs delivery, income and cost. Working closely with the SCI Global IT function and globally with Member Finance and IT functions, this role will provide commercial finance leadership within the team in this area, taking ownership and responsibility for resource day rate analysis, works orders costing/pricing, annual renewals, member charging and income management along with the associated commercial analysis, advice and management.

The will be expected to work proactively and independently within the team to ensure the integrity of this area of inter-company spend is managed and controlled, and that the overall commercial viability of the shared services is maintained.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Relevant finance and business partnering experience in an INGO environment.
• Prior experience of commercial finance analysis ideally including costing/pricing and profitability analysis
• Prior close working with a large-scale technology function and able to demonstrate awareness of an IT function and key roles
• Well-developed analytical and business partnering skills. Ability to be proactive and logical in problem-solving scenarios.
• Proven experience in budgeting and forecasting.
• Prior experience working with institutional donor awards.
• Excellent IT literacy including expertise in spread sheet modelling.
• Excellent stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills.
• 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.
• Thorough – high attention to detail and takes pride in delivering accurate, high quality work.
• 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.
• 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

• Knowledge of financial processes and Agresso systems
• Experienced in a multi-currency multi sector finance environment.

Closing: 8 December, 2022

Working in an agile/multi-disciplinary team environment, the Innovation Lead- Sponsorship will be a great collaborator, building strong relationships and cutting through boundaries, in a fast-moving and dynamic environment. The role will work closely with the Head of Evidence and Learning, Managing Director of Sponsorship and the Director of the Global Centre of Excellence for Innovation. Leveraging agile principles, you'll enable your team to flex and adapt - learning rapidly and responding to change, while keeping our supporters at the heart of everything you do. You will be the catalyst for innovation in our 20 country offices using a human centred design approach, providing on demand innovation advisory and monitoring support to Country Offices. You will lead a team of 8 innovation champions in Country Offices to scale innovation within the Sponsorship Program, and support the implementation of Knowledge management strategy for innovation with particular focus on capturing, curating and disseminating knowledge on innovations.

You will use your excellent relationship building skills to provide a critical link between Save the Children’s global and country level innovation work and external innovation sector, leveraging learnings of best practice. This role will lead the development of an innovation strategy, and strengthen both Sponsorship Program Quality Impact and Evidence and Learning technical offers to capture evidence on what works to end inequality and discrimination and tackle some of the biggest problems of today.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Passion and experience in social innovation and entrepreneurship
• Experience in innovation methodologies including human centred design, user experience, co-design, and lean/agile methods
• Proven experience and understanding of policy, advocacy, research, evaluation, business, and finance
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate, build, influence and maintain strong working relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives including programmatic, policy and advocacy technical experts that may have low capacity in business and finance acumen.
• Track record of storytelling, visualisation & prototyping of ideas successfully & efficiently
• Experience taking at least one innovation to scale
• Demonstrated ability to think critically/strategically, analyse complex information and offer creative, practical and effective solutions
• Ability to give professional support and direction to others
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and an ability to produce and disseminate products to a variety of audiences
• An individual who embraces change & welcomes challenge with an open, participative & transparent style
• Highly skilled at facilitation –working with groups to uncover their creativity & problem-solving ability
• High level of fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Willing and able to travel to COs to support field teams and lead particular pieces of work
• Proven ability to build strong collaborative networks and influence, externally and internally
• Strong remote-working abilities.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in Innovation or NPD in agency, consultancy, commercial and/or charity sector
• MBA or higher degree in relevant field
• Languages: French, Spanish, Arabic

Closing: 11 December, 2022