Internals Only: Senior Finance Business Partner (Shared Services)

About the role

The Senior Finance Business Partner provides strategic and practical financial support to the organisation by working closely with country teams, global functions, and partners to inform planning, decision-making, and performance management. The role translates financial information into meaningful insights, enabling stakeholders at different levels of the organisation to understand financial implications and make informed choices aligned with organisational priorities. The role is responsible for providing forward-looking financial guidance, including budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis, and for ensuring that financial considerations are embedded in operational, tactical, and strategic discussions In doing so, the role acts as a key interface between Finance and the wider organisation, ensuring that financial insight is applied consistently across assigned portfolios, and that financial discipline is maintained without limiting operational effectiveness or assuming direct responsibility for non-financial functions. What you will do: The role sits in the Finance and Operations function and engages with budget holders and relevant stakeholders to support financial management in practice, while maintaining alignment with organisational policies and funding requirements, and providing financial oversight and guidance on key operational areas, including procurement, logistics, and broader supply chain activities, with a focus on planning, internal controls, financial risks, systems effectiveness, value for money, and adherence to organisational policies, procedures, and donor requirements. Act as the primary finance partner to assigned countries, global functions, and partners, working closely with budget holders and stakeholders to support planning, decision-making, and performance management. Provide financial guidance and support across operational, tactical, and strategic levels, ensuring financial considerations are appropriately reflected in day-to-day activities as well as longer-term planning. Support the development and review of budgets and forecasts, working with stakeholders to ensure assumptions are robust, aligned with operational plans, and consistent with organisational priorities. Contribute to the annual planning cycle , ensuring that financial inputs from assigned portfolios are aligned with operational realities , strategic priorities, and funding context, and that key assumptions, risks, and variances are clearly understood and articulated. Support monthly and quarterly close processes, year-end activities, and internal and external audits, ensuring that financial inputs from assigned port folios are complete, accurate , and well-supported. Contribute to the preparation of financial statements and underlying schedules and disclosures by providing analysis, reconciliations, and clear explanations of financial performance and position. Engage with leadership and senior management at global and country levels, and relevant stakeholders , to support planning, resource allocation, and operational delivery decisions, including procurement and logistics considerations, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities , approved budgets, and donor requirements. Monitor financial performance across assigned portfolios, using management reports and analysis to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and supporting stakeholders in understanding and responding to these. Maintain oversight of the financial integrity of assigned portfolios, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and reliability of financial information used for management and decision-making. Maintain a clear understanding of the financial position of assigned portfolios, including key balance sheet elements , ensuring financial implications are understood and reflected in planning and decision-making. Translate financial information into practical insights, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions and take appropriate action to manage financial performance. Support decision-making processes by providing clear financial input and recommendations, ensuring implications, trade-offs, and risks are well understood and appropriately considered . Provide forward-looking financial input, including scenario analysis and financial modelling, to support planning, funding decisions, and operational adjustments. Provide financial oversight and guidance on operational areas, including procurement, logistics , and broader supply chain activities, focusing on planning, internal controls, financial risks, system effectiveness, value for money, and compliance with organisational policies, procedures, and donor requirements. Ensure that financial governance expectations are clearly communicated and consistently upheld across assigned portfolios, reinforcing accountability for compliance with organisational standards and donor requirements. Engage with operational functions, including logistics and procurement, to rein force the application

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