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Summary

The Senior Advisor, Financial Analysis and Business Partnering (FABP) provides financial and analytical support to the agency's strategic and operational planning processes by assisting the Managing Director with the annual budget process and supporting leadership on resource allocation decisions. Reporting to the Managing Director, you will set goals in collaboration with business units and the global movement to foster excellence in financial management reporting across the organization. As a strategic business partner, you will lead in providing support to the business and functional teams and will be accountable for all divisional revenue and expense planning. In addition, you will work closely with business leaders to provide consultative and advisory recommendations to managers on data analysis and performance reporting.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Business Partnering & Division-Functional Support & Analysis (40%)

• Work collaboratively with management of divisions throughout the agency to foster an understanding of financial performance and provide the financial and analytical support to their decision-making.
• Co-create grant forecasts and/or work closely with Divisions on public/private revenue modeling and creation of appropriate performance metrics.
• Analyze and provide feedback on Budget Vs Actual Expense Reports for Home Office Divisions. Conduct monthly analysis of revenue actuals against budget and prior year actuals.
• Provide monthly financial information to business partners across the agency, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
• Manage the redesign of financial reporting in coordination with the business teams and Office of the president (OOP) to provide the Senior Leadership Team with timely information to support decision-making. Oversee capex budget process and PMO project budgets.
• Serve as a lead liaison within business and functional teams providing support in navigating expense and budget transactions.
• Meet regularly with budget owners to review any questions, variances, changes to their budget, discuss options for managing their expense based on historical data, current performance, etc.

Annual Budget Process & Budget Revisions (30%)

• Coordinate with business teams on divisional revenue and expense planning. Co-create grant budget and financial modeling for international and domestic awards and private revenue streams to provide robust forecast of available financial resources.
• Support business teams through original budget and budget revision process, including review and analysis of Save the Children International grant data submissions.
• Provide strategic directives, guidance and capacity building to support annual planning cycle, in coordination with business teams; ensure operational excellence in revenue planning, budgeting, and reporting.
• Review and validate final revenue and expense budgets and support upload into Agresso for divisional and functional teams.

Project Management (10%)

• Support federated organizational model including global projects and external benchmarking.

Management & Capacity Building (20%)

• Empower team members to provide leadership to the agency in the financial realm.
• Provide business insights, drawing on experience and learning across the agency.
• Train Home Office division budget point persons on budget and planning matters, ensures that meeting objectives and providing proper service to stakeholders.
• Evaluate current practices to determine if efficiencies are realized and recommend solutions to streamline processes and reduce redundancy.
• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission, ensuring that the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging – supporting Save the Children values.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Proficient skills in the management of databases and financial management systems
• Demonstrated success in budgeting and financial analysis
• Proven problem solving, analytical, and organizational skills
• Ability to influence without authority and gain trust and respect of key stakeholders, at all levels of the organization
• Proven ability to manage through ambiguous situations, and balance multiple priorities
• Proven success in managing effectively through change, encouraging innovative approaches
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally with a focus on client service delivery
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Non-governmental organization/Not-for-profit finance experience
• Experience with Unit 4 Agresso Financial system
• Demonstrated success as a manager of staff, focused on a high performing team culture
• Working knowledge of Power Query, Power BI, Tableau, MS SSRS, or other data management/presentation tools

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.