Financial Control Manager (CO facing)

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Job Title: Financial Control Manager (CO facing)

Team: Financial Control Team

Reports To: Senior Manager Financial Control

Contract Length: Permanent

Grade: M2

Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location.

Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.

Language Requirements: English, French, Arabic or Spanish desirable

International Travel Requirements: up to 10%

People Management Responsibility: Number of people managed in total: 3

Manager of a team: Yes

Team Manager (manager of multiple teams): No

Team And Job Purpose

To ensure SCI's financial control framework operates effectively by identifying and addressing control and compliance issues through quality reviews and analysis, while engaging with country, global, and member teams to develop action plans to minimize financial risks. Drive standardization and automation of fnancial control processes, embed best practices and support professional development across finance teams. Lead on global donor audits; ensuring accurate reporting, minimising disallowances and developing action plan to address audit findings.

Role purpose

To provide leadership and expertise in performance of quality reviews and analysis of CO balance sheet control accounts and KPIs, ensuring timely identification, resolution and escalation of financial control issues through collaborative action planning with country, global, and member teams. It also involves supporting financial control and compliance processes, preparing KPI reports and risk commentary, and strengthening the skills of teams through training and development, thereby contributing to the charity's aim of achieving financial integrity and compliance.

Principal Accountabilities

* Lead team of Financial Control Officers & Advisor.
* Perform quality reviews and analysis of high-risk country financial returns and KPIs to identify and escalate financial risks. Ensuring accounts are being match on a timely basis and reallocations minimised.
* Work with country, global and members teams to develop an action plan to address/minimise financial risks weaknesses.
* Support the QRR financial control and compliance process; prepare KPI reporting and risk commentary for discussion with Finance SMT and IP SMT.
* Manage updates to CO Finance Manual on QF and other financial control and compliance guidance materials.
* Support with training and strengthening skills of country and global teams in financial control and compliance.

Essential

Experience and Skills

* Experience of leading a team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
* Excellent analytical abilities to identify financial control weaknesses and develop appropriate action plans.
* Meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy and reliability in financial reporting.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively engage with country, global, and member teams, and to manage relationships with auditors.
* Ability to develop pragmatic solutions to complex financial issues and compliance challenges and of driving standardisation and automation.
* Experience in developing and documenting financial policies, procedures, and training materials to support organisational financial competence and compliance.
* Aptitude in providing training and guidance to finance teams to embed best practice financial controls.
* Ability to adapt and take on new challenges in a dynamic organisational environment.
* Self-motivated with good time management skills and ability to prioritise workload, anticipate requirements, work to tight deadlines and communicate decisions on a regular basis.
* Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and in other financial software.

Desirable

* Experience in operating within the charity or non-profit sector, with an understanding of charity accounting and financial regulations.
* Experience of working in a large global multi currency organisation.

Key Relationships

Internal (excluding direct team and manager)

* Finance Operations, IT, FP&A. Advocacy Offices, Treasury, Country Offices, IP Finance

External

* Auditors

Essential

Education and Qualifications

* Accounting qualification or equivalent or relevant experience

Competencies

Cluster: Leading

Competency: Leading and inspiring others

Level: Accomplished

Behavioural Indicator: Takes a flexible and positive leadership style adapting to a given situation or to the needs of the team.

Cluster: Leading

Competency: Delivering results

Level: Accomplished

Behavioural Indicator: Holds others accountable for achieving results and challenges underperformance.

Cluster: Thinking

Competency: Problem solving and decision making

Level: Accomplished

Behavioural Indicator: Makes informed strategic decisions based on full evaluation of the opportunities and risks of each idea and solution.

Cluster: Thinking

Competency: Applying technical and professional expertise

Level: Accomplished

Behavioural Indicator: Shares knowledge and best practice on technical solutions so that others can make best use of that expertise.

Cluster: Engaging

Competency: Communicating with impact

Level: Accomplished

Behavioural Indicator: Conveys complex issues with clarity, brevity, and confidence.

Cluster: Engaging

Competency: Working effectively with others

Level: Accomplished

Behavioural Indicator: Breaks down silo working and challenges behaviours that are not collaborative.

* Job Identification 14695
* Job Category Finance
* Posting Date 11/19/2025, 02:39 PM
* Apply Before 12/03/2025, 11:59 PM
* Job Schedule Full time
* Locations CENTRE - London Worldwide