Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago

Elkhart, United States Church World Service Full time

About CWS:

Imagine waking up every morning with the chance to change someone's life. Imagine knowing your efforts will benefit both your career and our neighbors around the world. At CWS, our team knows they are making a difference every day. Whether you're in our U.S.-based offices supporting refugees, asylees or unaccompanied children ... implementing hygiene initiatives in Cambodia or rebuilding projects in Central America ... or even connecting remotely from your home on fundraising campaigns, grant reports, or critical communications - you have the opportunity to work towards a world where everyone has food, a voice and a safe place to call home.

Purpose:

The Finance Business Partner will provide oversight, guidance and support to the US and global financial staff. Key to the role will be helping drive process standardization, oversight around key controls and process continuity across operational finance, helping ensure grant reporting is timely, accurate, and in compliance. The role will be a critical liaison between both financial leadership and non-financial programmatic leadership.

The role will also understand the nuances and complexities across regions and global offices and work closely with local finance and program leads to guide and support key financial processes and help provide the financial perspectives and analysis to drive effective decisions.

The Finance Business Partner will be pivotal in helping drive and support ongoing performance management. Critical to the role is understanding best practices as well as the tools and applications to efficiently and effectively support business stakeholder needs today and in the future. The Finance Business Partner will stimulate behaviors across CWS to achieve strategic financial objectives.

Responsibilities:

Financial Monitoring and Coordination

  • Develop an in-depth understanding of regional programs needs and complexities, particularly funding requirements, and restrictions.
  • Assist in the development and deployment methodologies for reconciling and analyzing local, program, regional, and country financial information.
  • Support timely development and dissemination of internal financial reports and analysis working in conjunction with local, regional, country, and HQ financial staff.

Financial Management and Operations

  • Work proactively and collaboratively with financial staff to actively manage and deliver financial operations in line with organizational policies, processes, and standards.
  • Understand and support financial, reporting, audit, compliance, budgeting, and forecasting guidelines and process.
  • Serve as the key contact for CWS regional, country, and local financial staff and provide support as needed.
  • Work closely with the HQ donor reporting, audit, and compliance staff to support CWS office needs related to award and grant timelines, report, and compliance needs.
  • Work closely with HQ budget, forecasting, and planning staff to enable budget data to translate to funder and organizational reporting formats efficiently and effectively.
  • Assist with the development of financial templates as needed using Excel and other appropriate software.
  • Provide support to CWS financial staff in local and regional offices to meet organizational, funder, reporting, compliance, regulatory, and other needs.
  • Analyze and interpret data to help regional offices allocate resources efficiently, and conduct trend analysis to identify risks and opportunities.

Financial Technology

  • Assist in documenting system and process requirements.
  • Work with financial technology staff to serve as a liaison between stakeholders across Finance, Operations, IT, and external vendors.
  • Support ERP-end users in the adoption and ongoing delivery of the ERP and related systems.
  • Provide support for ongoing ERP configuration management.
  • Draft and deliver training materials to aid in the adoption of new technologies, processes, and/or operating models.

Performance Management

  • Understand global business operations and help bring leading practices across the global enterprise.
  • Support and help stand-up new office locations.
  • Set up the constructs for learning and knowledge sharing across the global finance organization.
  • Presenting findings and recommendations to regional and HQ leadership through reports, presentations, and meetings.


Qualifications:

Education:

  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience is required.

Experience:

  • Ten or more years of experience in accounting or finance, preferably in an NGO, foundation, or USG with heavy concentration on budgeting, accounting, financial management, grant submissions and post-aware monitoring and reporting.
  • Solid background and understanding of accounting/financial management principles.
  • Excellent critical thinking and project management skills.
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to understand and interpret financial reports, analyze financial data for monitoring adherence to CWS and funder-specified guidelines.
  • Flexibility, patience, and the ability to work productively in a team environment and independently.
  • Excellent computer skills, preferably Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook in particular).
  • Intermediate to advanced skills with Business Intelligence Systems, Data Analytics, or Financial Planning and Analysis Systems and their implementations.
  • Demonstrated experience in standard accounting software.
  • Attentiveness to detail and accuracy in budgeting, accounting, reporting, and writing.
  • Ability to act with sensitivity and discretion while working with highly confidential information.
  • Experience in managing people across global locations.


Benefits :
CWS offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- 403 (b) Retirement Plan
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off (18 Paid Days Off; 24 Days Off after 2 Years)
- 14 Official Holidays
- 12 Sick Days Off (Accrued monthly)
- Life Insurance and AD&D
- Long Term and Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Benefits

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