Advisor, Financial Analysis & Business Partnering (P3)

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

 

The Role

As the Advisor, Financial Analysis and Business Partnering (FABP) you’ll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will provide financial and analytical support for the Agency's strategic and operational planning processes. This includes supporting the annual budget processes and guiding resource allocation decisions across the Agency. Reporting to the Managing Director, you will work collaboratively with business units and the global movement to support multiple teams and divisions and ensure operational excellence in revenue and expense planning. You will closely collaborate with division leaders to provide consultative and advisory recommendations on data analysis and performance reporting.

Location

Hybrid – Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

 

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Business Partnering, Support, and Analysis (30%)

• Collaborate with teams and divisions, providing guidance on budget and expense transactions, ensuring compliance with financial policies.
• Foster and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders to ensure seamless flow of information and enable timely, well-informed decision-making.
• Prepare and present insightful reporting on key results, monitor trends, and communicate risks in forecasted and actual results.
• Facilitate regular discussions with budget holders to review variances, address changes, and provide financial analysis for decision-making.
• Monitor and report financials that influence multi-year strategic goals and priorities.
• Proactively engage with stakeholders throughout the budgeting and monitoring process to ensure that inputs are both received and provided in a timely and accurate manner.
• Develop and produce regular financial analysis and reporting for month-end, year-end, and ad-hoc needs.
• Analyze and give feedback on Budget vs Actual (BvA) performance for revenue and expense reporting.
• Support budget holders and senior management in defining best practices for financial measurement.
• Promote best practices among teams, share efficiencies, and support goal achievement by leveraging operational and financial knowledge.
• Evolve financial reporting to provide the Senior Leadership Team with timely information for decision-making.

Annual Budget Process & Budget Revisions (40%)

• Collaborate with FABP team and extended finance during development of the annual budget and bi-annual revisions, ensuring timely deliverables and alignment with Agency goals.
• Provide guidance and support for the annual planning cycle.
• Ensure excellence in revenue planning, budgeting, and reporting for a portfolio of teams and divisions.
• Maintain integrity of budget tools and train staff as needed.
• Analyze and summarize revenue and expense inputs, ensuring accurate translation into sources and uses.
• Coordinate detailed reviews of business units' P&L.
• Review, validate, and support the upload of final budgets into Agresso.

Project Management (20%)

• Assist with financial analysis and business partnering projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, timely delivery, and adherence to budget constraints.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, monitor progress, and provide regular updates to stakeholders to facilitate informed decision-making.
• Support federated organizational model including global projects and external benchmarking.

Capacity Building (10%)

• Train relevant audiences on budget and planning, ensuring high-quality client service.
• Maintain accurate internal process documentation, including updates to the Finance Manual and creation/enhancement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Support standard management reporting processes and metrics by creating templates, job aids, and producing required reporting packages.

Required qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience, with at leas