Specialist - Junior Finance Business Partner - Innovation & Projects in London

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Specialist - Junior Finance Business Partner– Innovation & Projects to join our Financial - Planning & Performance global team.

Team and Role Purpose

Team purpose

The Finance Business Partnering team is responsible for providing quality strategic insight and effective finance partnering to key stakeholders across the Save the Children International Global Teams to drive quality financial and business outcomes.

Role purpose

The role holder will support in providing finance business partnering and high quality management information to Liftlab and other Innovation Incubators in order to enable the organisation to deliver high quality outcomes for children. It will also provide support to effective finance business partnering across relevant Global Teams.

Principal Accountabilities

• Business Partnering support to Liftlab and other Innovation Incubators (60%), other Global teams (40%)
• Support the development of annual budgets and reforecasts by working closely with assigned budget holders, including ensuring adequate cost coverage across funding sources (unrestricted & donor funding)
• Provide meaningful financial analysis to support strategic and operational decision‑making.
• Review budget vs actual reports (BVAs) for errors & omissions; support budget holders to monitor the BVAs and provide analysis on variances against funding sources. Resolve queries from budget holders regarding financial transactions.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of ledger postings, including recharges, reallocation journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Process and submit invoices for services provided to external vendors.
• Assist the Senior Finance Business Partner with financial management for Advocacy Offices.
• Review costs received from members and coordinate with focal persons to ensure accurate charging to the correct codes and relevant accounting periods.
• Review the costs received through bypass process and reallocate them to the appropriate codes.
• Liaise with HR to obtain annual leave data and post monthly leave accruals.
• Support audits, provide cover for senior finance staff, and undertake additional finance duties as required.

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Relevant finance work experience in a Chartered Accounting, Commercial or NGO environment.
• 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 in a high-pressure organisation.
• Well-developed analytical skills and business partnering skills (including budgeting and forecasting).
• Good IT literacy including expertise in spreadsheet modelling.
• 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.
• Ability to be proactive and logical in problem-solving scenarios.
• Thorough – high attention to detail, takes pride in delivering accurate, timely and high-quality work.
• A good understanding of financial systems and procedures.
• Conscientious and client focused.
• Experience of balance sheet reconciliation and analysis.
• Experience of donor reporting.

Desirable

• Experienced in a multi-currency Finance environment.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Part-qualified, AAT-ACA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent, or relevant experience.

Working at Save the Children International

Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found at SCI Careers. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our Recruitment Process

• Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter.
• Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team.
• Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview.
• If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks.

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-Harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.