Director of Strategic Finance at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Strategic Finance

Locations: Nigeria (Flexible)
Reports to: Chief Financial Officer
Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract available via employing entity

The Opportunity

• In Finance, our vision is ‘to be a globally trusted partner in the organisation’s delivery of life-changing programmes for girls and young women’.
• We aim to do this by ‘providing the robust financial systems, reports, tools and data, and the skilled people to enable successful project delivery. We equip our customers with the insights, capabilities, and expert advice that they need to change lives’.
• Plan International embarked on an ambitious and exciting strategic change initiative to make the organization more transparent, legitimate, and agile.
• Our Strategic Finance Directorate will be responsible for leading and delivering the financial strategy to ensure financial sustainability for Plan International Inc. (PII) and lead on critical thinking and insight generation to support decision-making and strategic planning.
• As Head of the Directorate, you will be responsible for building the function’s brand as a global partner through the provision of strategic leadership, insight generation, and effective resource allocation in budgeting and reporting processes for the finance function.
• You will oversee financial planning, financial performance analysis and management, and strategic and global financial modelling.
• The Directorate will have responsibility for management of the data and information sets and systems to create confidence across the function and wider organisation in what is being provided.
• The Director will form part of the Finance Leadership Team and will own the development of the five-year Finance Strategy alongside the CFO.
• You will also be accountable for providing day-to-day oversight and management of the Directorate, including reporting, people management, and quality assurance responsibilities.

The Requirements
Leadership behaviours:

• Provides Strategic Leadership within the function and to the wider organisation, acting as a partner in the delivery of outcomes.
• Is customer focussed and embeds those behaviours across the Strategic Finance Directorate.
• Develops, motivates, coaches and manages the Strategic Finance Directorate team and broader finance teams at global, regional and country level.
• Promotes high performance and continuous improvement by all staff.
• Promotes innovation and ongoing learning and development of all teams within the region.
• Resilient and outcome focussed, with an ability to build those qualities in the team.
• Communicates clearly and effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Gains, develops and retains credibility about their performance.
• Sees the bigger picture and helps teams and leaders to develop this perspective.

Skills specific to the post:

• Demonstrable experience of transforming Financial Strategy, Planning and Insight services.
• Strong financial analysis and modelling skills, with the ability to provide insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Knowledge and ability to create a variety of modelling techniques and methods to support planning and analysis.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information in a clear and concise manner to non-financial stakeholders.
• Managing and mitigating financial and operational risk, working across teams to mitigate and manage response.
• Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, database, internet).
• Possess the capabilities needed to deliver effective solutions to complex business challenges.
• Ability to translate strategy into delivery through plans, programmes, people and culture.
• Communication skills, tailored to the audiences with whom you will work – including external stakeholders, and global, regional, and local teams.
• Highly developed interpersonal, advocacy and communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders and bring the best out of teams.
• Possess the capabilities needed to deliver effective solutions to complex business challenges.
• Knowledge and experience of using any/all of the following would be an added value:
  • SAP ERP systems
  • Power BI
  • Dynamics 365

Salary
We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location and therefore it is not possible to include full details here.

Application Closing Date
22nd May, 2023.