Advisor, Financial Analysis and Business Partnering; P3

Position: Advisor, Financial Analysis and Business Partnering (P3)

Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

Summary

The Advisor, Financial Analysis and Business Partnering provides financial and analytical support to the Agency's strategic and operational planning processes by supporting the annual budget processes and leadership on resource allocation decisions within a portfolio of Private Fundraising Teams. Reporting to the Senior Advisor, you will collaborate with business units and the global movement to foster excellence in financial management reporting across the organization.

As a strategic business partner, you will provide vital support to private fundraising teams and will be accountable for operational excellence in divisional revenue and expense planning, working closely with business leaders to provide consultative and advisory recommendations to managers on data analysis and performance reporting.

Key Competencies

• Requires in-depth knowledge and experience of planning, budgeting, accounting, and business partnership development.
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services across the Private Fundraising portfolio.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions.
• Works independently, receives minimal guidance.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate the organization in the market.
• Acts as a resource for other team members; may lead projects with limited risks and resource requirements.

What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties) Business Partnering, Private Fundraising Team Support, & Analysis (50%)

• Liaise with Private Fundraising teams, providing support and guidance navigating budget and expense transactions internally and externally with Save the Children International and other Save the Children members, ensuring budget holders have resources needed to comply with financial policies and procedures.
• Prepare and present insightful Private New Raise results, monthly, monitoring and communicating trends and risks in forecasted and actual results.
• Analyze and provide accurate and meaningful feedback on Budget vs Actual (BvA) performance for revenue and expense reporting.
• Facilitate regular discussions and touch points with budget owners to review variances of actuals to budget, changes to budget/plans, and support in addressing questions or concerns regarding performance to budget by providing meaningful and accurate financial analysis to assist in decision-making at the portfolio level.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting Private Fundraising new raise and revenue to multi-year strategic goals and priorities.
• Responsible for development and timely and accurate regular production of Agency-wide financial analysis and reporting related to month- and year-end and ad-hoc as needed.
• Provide proactive support to budget holders and senior management in helping to define best practices or structures for financial measurement based on existing financial systems.
• Define and socialize best practices among teams, share efficiencies by leveraging operational and financial knowledge to improve existing processes and support Teams in goal achievement.
• Support in evolvement of financial reporting across the Agency to provide the Senior Leadership Team with timely information to support decision-making.

Annual Budget Process & Budget Revisions (40%)

• Facilitate Private Fundraising teams' development of the annual budget and bi-annual budget revisions by leading internal processes and ensuring timely deliverables and strategic alignment to Agency goals and priorities.
• Provide guidance and capacity building to support the annual planning cycle. Accountable for operational excellence in revenue planning, budgeting and reporting for portfolio of teams.
• Ensure integrity of budget tools and train staff, as needed on budget processes.
• Analyze and summarize revenue and expense inputs and ensure accurate translation into sources and uses, including lead translation of private new raise to revenue.
• Coordinate detailed review of business units' P&L.
• Review and validate final budgets and support upload into Agresso.
• Lead process for budget reflection of annual release of temporarily restricted assets (Sponsorship Carry forward).

Capacity Building (10%)

• Train relevant audiences on budget and planning matters, ensuring objective materialization with high degree of client service.
• Maintain complete and accurate internal process documentation, including submissions to Finance Manual update and creation or enhancement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Support Agency-wide standard management…