Regional Finance Director - MEESA at Plan International

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Regional Finance Director (RFD) will provide critical leadership to ensure that Plan International Inc.’s finances in the MEESA region adhere to external and internal financial standards and donor regulations. The RFD will ensure that Regional Management and the Global Hub (GH) finance function are alerted to financial risks and opportunities in MEESA, while also providing strategic analysis on the business environment. 
The RFD will play a key role in driving alignment to the finance strategy and priorities at a regional and country level and alignment to country and regional priorities in global level finance. This role will also be accountable for the professional management of finances and finance team capacity in the MEESA. 

Country Directors are accountable for the performance of their country teams.  COs each have a Country Finance Manager and team who have responsibility for meeting internal financial standards and donor regulations.  The regional role is to have technical oversight of the finance function in COs. The Regional Finance Director monitors the financial performance of all COs and supports the finance function to have the capability to achieve high financial standards. They work with the Directors of Sub-Regions and the Regional Hub Management Team to identify and address areas of concern. The Regional Hub works with the COs to strengthen their finance capacity. 

The Regional Finance Director will be part of the MEESA Regional Management Team and of the Regional Hub Management Team whose remits are broader than just finance. He/she will also be part of Finance Leadership Team and as such participate actively in the global function strategy development and continuous improvement.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Relevant financial and business analysis qualification.
• MBA or another relevant advanced degree preferable.
• 8-10 years’ experience in a similar senior role.
• Experience with NGO implementing projects, particularly grants funded ideally gained in project countries. 
• Experience in supporting a regional roll-out of an ERP platform would be an added benefit.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Strategic problem solving.
• Analytical skills.
• Communication skills, appropriate to the audience, particularly Communicate finance concepts and issues clearly to non-finance people.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.
• Strong team-building and motivational skills.
• Strong negotiating, facilitating and influencing skills.
• 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.
• The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis.
• Business case development.
• Modelling techniques and methods.

Knowledge and experience of using any/all of the following would be an added value: 

• SAP ERP systems
• Power BI
• Dynamics 365
• Experience of moving an organisation to a new ERP would be an added value.