Senior Advisor, Finance Management (P4)

Summary

Save the Children’s U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities. Save the Children does whatever it takes to help children and families recover in times of crisis and build resilience for years to come.

We are seeking a Senior Advisor, Finance Management to provide financial support for Save the Children’s U.S. Programs. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring financial and operational processes are running timely and efficiently. You will report to the Managing Director, Financial Management and will provide budget holder support, award management, and expense allocation guidance to the cost centers supported.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Financial Strategy and Planning (40%)

• Lead the development and implementation of the annual fiscal budget process for your region, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Partner with senior leadership to develop and analyze financial projections and forecasts for the division, identifying and addressing financial risks.
• Use financial data and historical spending to provide direction to portfolio managers in the preparation of financial projections, ensuring spending plans are aligned with organizational objectives and risk tolerance.
• Coordinate with Program Design team to ensure cost models and equivalencies are up to date.
• Conduct regular budget reviews to ensure proper and efficient use of resources and advise portfolio managers and budget holders on techniques for maximizing funds.
• Proactively identify funding gaps and provide strategic guidance to fundraising teams to ensure funding aligns with our strategy.

Award Management (35%)

• Lead budget development for complex grant proposals by partnering with program directors to translate program needs into sound financial plans.
• Provide strategic guidance and support to direct reports on all aspects of the award management lifecycle with support from the Award Management Advisor.
• Conduct regular review of award portfolios, including oversight of life-of-award meetings, to identify and mitigate potential risks and coordinate with award staff to develop spend plans that align with scope of work and donor conditions.
• Review donor spending reports for direct reports to ensure data accuracy and compliance with donor and audit requirements.
• Advise Sr. Director on needed updates to the USP subaward management manual to ensure accuracy and alignment with SCUS policy, federal and state regulations, and donor requirements while striving for efficiency in procedures.
• Manage team compliance with subaward manual including closeout, risk assessment, and financial monitoring.

Training & Development (10%):

• Lead the development of financial training materials and conduct regular trainings for USP finance and program staff on financial policies, procedures, and award compliance.
• Work with Managing Director and Senior Director to update USP financial policies and procedures and implement best practices across the USP Finance team.
• Manage the completion of needs assessments to identify staff training requirements, evaluate the effectiveness of training programs, and make improvements as needed.
• Develop and train both internal and external stakeholders on various financial topics including:
  • Budget holder guidance
  • USP financial policies and procedures
  • Donor compliance and reports
  • Federal regulations, i.e. 2 CFR 200, EDGAR, and others.
• Work with Sr. Director to update annual partner training and ensure training needs are being met for both internal and external stakeholders for cost centers in your portfolio.

Staff Management (15%)

• Provide strategic direction, coaching, and performance management for a team of finance advisors responsible for cost center and award management, ensuring adherence to divisional financial policies and procedures.
• Delegate tasks effectively, ensuring timely completion and high-quality work.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to finance staff, fostering a positive and results-oriented team environment.
• Work with finance leadership to develop team goals and financial priorities.
• Acts as a backstop for other Sr. Advisors and backfills for your team as needed to ensure coverage during vacancies
• Meet with direct reports to assign work priorities and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• 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
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with Microsoft Excel and demonstrated ability to apply creative ideas for data compilations.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple stakeholders by providing sound financial data and guidance
• Proven experience managing complex, multifunctional budgets
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing complex budgets with multiple funding sources including federal awards

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

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. 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, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

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.

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.

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.