Experience and Skills

Essential

1. Extensive track record of financial leadership within large-scale organisational transformation, cost optimisation, or operational efficiency programmes in complex global organisations, with direct responsibility for financial analysis, modelling, and benefits realisation.
2. Significant experience working within complex INGOs, federated organisations, multinational matrix environments, or similarly complex stakeholder structures, including proven ability to navigate competing priorities across multiple geographies and functions.
3. A proven ability to design and apply sophisticated financial models, cost-driver analyses, scenario planning, and sensitivity analyses to quantify efficiency opportunities and validate transformation assumptions at enterprise scale.
4. A proven ability to apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills collaboratively, including taking on hands-on analysis activities to support broader transformation workstreams and delivering high-quality outputs under tight timelines and with limited supervision.
5. Extensive experience developing and maintaining financial benefits realisation frameworks, savings validation methodologies, and cost baseline models, with a track record of independently assuring and reporting efficiency delivery against approved targets.
6. A proven ability to engage, influence, and build alignment among senior finance, operations, HR, and programme stakeholders across multiple geographies, translating complex financial analysis into clear and actionable insights for non-financial audiences.
7. Strong knowledge and practical experience of cost management, operational cost structures, support function efficiency, staffing and level-of-effort optimisation, and financial implications of service delivery redesign.
8. Exceptional communication, presentation, and financial storytelling capability, with demonstrated experience producing executive-level dashboards, governance reports, and financial summaries for senior leadership forums.
9. Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent) with progressive experience in finance, financial planning & analysis, business partnering, or transformation finance - global or multi-country experience essential.
10. Experience supporting ERP transformation initiatives or enterprise-wide financial systems implementations.

Desirable

• Experience supporting or embedding financial governance within transformation programmes exceeding USD 50M in operational scope.
• Experience working across both headquarters or global teams and decentralised Country Office operations, with an understanding of the operational realities of field-based humanitarian or development contexts.
• Practical knowledge of Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, continuous improvement, or operational excellence methodologies as applied to financial or operational redesign.
• Exposure to enterprise analytics platforms, AI-enabled financial modelling, or intelligent automation initiatives in a transformation context.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related discipline.

Desirable

• Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent).

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

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter