Senior Specialist, Business Analysis; Cost Optimization Initiative

Description

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for aSenior Specialist Business Analysis Cost Optimization Initiativeto join our global team.

Team and Role Purpose

Save the Children is launching the Cost Optimisation Initiative to improve organizational sustainability strengthen value for money and maximize resources available for children and programme delivery. The aim is to build a simpler smarter and more efficient Save the Children that delivers greater impact for children through better use of every resource entrusted to us.

Role purpose

The Senior Business Analyst (BA) will serve as a key delivery resource within the organization-wide Cost Management Initiative supporting the identification design and implementation of sustainable cost reduction and operational efficiency opportunities across Global Teams and Country Offices.

The role will lead sophisticated business analysis operational diagnostics process redesign requirements engineering and transformation design activities across multiple global functions including Finance Supply Chain HR Awards Operations Shared Services and Enterprise Systems.

The Senior BA will play a critical role in shaping future-state operating models identifying strategic efficiency opportunities facilitating executive-level decision-making and translating business priorities into implementable transformation initiatives. The role requires deep expertise in enterprise transformation organizational redesign finance operations process optimization and stakeholder influence within highly matrixed organizations.

• Job Title: Senior Specialist Business Analysis Cost Optimization Initiative
• Reports To: Senior Project Lead Cost Optimization
• Work Pattern: On-site/Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
• Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in please visit:
  
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• Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract (18 months)
• Right to Work: The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based for the duration of employment.
• Language Requirements:English
• International Travel: up to 10%
• Remit: Global

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead Enterprise Business Analysis and Operational Diagnostics: Drive end-to-end business analysis across the Cost Optimisation initiative conducting enterprise-wide operational diagnostics to identify structural inefficiencies duplication non-value-adding activities and optimisation opportunities across support functions and Country Offices.
• Design Future-State Processes and Operating Models: Lead current and future-state process mapping using BPMN and industry-standard methodologies designing future-state business processes aligned to lean operational principles and developing high-quality transformation artefacts including process maps service catalogues operating model documentation RACI frameworks and governance models.
• Lead Strategic Requirements Engineering and Solution Design: Lead the elicitation analysis validation and management of complex business and functional requirements translating strategic objectives into actionable solution requirements implementation roadmaps and high-quality documentation including user stories business rules use cases data requirements and traceability matrices.
• Drive Cost Analytics and Operational Efficiency Assessment: Lead analytical assessments of staffing structures PSC allocations operational expenditures and service delivery costs across global operations developing robust LOE models benchmarking analyses and efficiency baselines to support strategic decision-making and opportunity sizing.
• Establish Benefits Realisation and Performance Tracking Frameworks: Partner with Finance Enterprise Analytics HR and Operations teams to validate savings assumptions develop business cases and investment justifications and establish frameworks for tracking efficiency realisation operational performance improvements and transformation outcomes.
• Facilitate Stakeholder Engagement and Alignment: Facilitate complex cross-functional workshops design sessions and working groups driving alignment and consensus across stakeholders with differing operational priorities and presenting analytical findings and transformation recommendations credibly to senior leadership audiences.
• Support Digital Enablement and Automation Opportunities: Collaborate with technology analytics and ERP teams to assess and prioritise automation and digital enablement opportunities ensuring proposed solutions are scalable integrated and aligned to enterprise architecture standards and transformation objectives.
• Contribute to Programme Governance and Delivery Coordination: Support the Project Lead in coordinating interconnected transformation work streams and managing delivery dependencies maintaining rigorous governance disciplines including RAID logs decision registers action trackers and…