Head of Business- and National Project Finance

Do you want to lead a strong team of Business, Finance and National Project Controllers and work widely across the organization on key financial analysis, business and financial controlling, reporting, budgetting, and forecasting as well as supporting the National project portfolios and the National program department? Do you love developing and presenting financial oversights and providing financial support, quality assurance and challenging financial performance throughout the organization and specifically on a large and diverse national project portfolio? And do you want to support an organization, that works for the best cause in the world? You might be our new Head of Business- and National Project Finance.

Red Barnet is currently looking for a Head of Business- and National Project Finance (BNPF), to continue the important journey of leading the business- and national project finance team. You will lead building the right conditions and frame for high standards in all financial aspects and in line with accounting and donor compliance in our national programme department and the rest of Red Barnet. The position is newly created and reports to the CFO.

WHO WE ARE

Our Business Support and Development department has over the past two years implemented several new systems, amongst others a new ERP system. We begin to see the end of the tunnel and we are on a great path re-inventing our ways of working and strengthening the collaboration and connection throughout the organization and especially towards the national programme department. BNPF is building on this landscape to ensure a continued focus on timely and quality reporting through efficient processes, teamwork and engagement. The key mandate of the BNPF team is to drive and manage the Budget process, consolidate, analyse, control and challenge periodic and annual reports, statutory reports, forecasting modelling and to provide support regarding restricted and unrestricted funds. As quality advisors, and financial experts BNPF supports the national programme department in all financial aspects throughout the project cycle.

The team consists of 7 people, which includes finance, business and project controllers, of various nationalities, background and portfolios and therefore diverse leadership skills are a requirement.

YOU WILL BE

• ​Leading, motivating and developing the employees in the section and ensure that the section develops in line with the organization's needs and with sustained high professionalism within the section. 
• Working closely with the national programme management team, to support strong financial management of the national program portfolio.
• Developing strategies for the section's area, in collaboration with the CFO and team   Optimizing and digitalizing processes to be fit for the future.
• Ensuring financial donor compliance for the full life cycle of all national projects implemented by RB in Denmark.
• Development, Innovation, prioritization, and optimization of products and processes in BNPF.
• Being informed about and on top of incoming fraud cases and providing support from the financial aspects if necessary.
• Focal point for corporate and donor related audits

According to our engagement survey, you will become part of a team and department, where there is freedom to express opinion, strong peer relationship and good autonomy and flexibility. The department is very dynamic, and the energy is high. We get a lot of things done and we laugh a lot.

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL COMPETENCIES

• You have years of experience in leadership and developing people in medium sized and multi-bilingual teams
• You have solid strategic, tactical and operational experience in all key management tasks (Master’s in accounting/economics/finance or similar)
• You have several years of financial and/or accounting project management experience, preferably combined with field experience in an international organization.
• You have at least 5 years’ experience with running projects in a cross-organizational context.

Additionally, you:

• Have strong communicative skills, also in the close dialogue with colleagues and peers, and a healthy approach to collaboration and internal customers.
• Are accommodating and outreaching, enterprising, and thrives on working independently, as well as working in cross-cutting teams.
• Have ability to maintain an overview, create structure in everyday life and ensure results, even in pressured periods and when performing suddenly arising tasks.
• Have an ability in planning ahead and forecasting the needs for financial support and analysis from the business.
• Speak and write fluent English.
• Have knowledge of SharePoint, Excel, Microsoft office and PowerBI.

TERMS & RECRUITMENT PROCES

You will be employed according to the terms of an individual manager contract (Agreement between Save the Children Denmark and the AC organizations and HK). Working hours are 37 hours per week without overtime payment. You will start as soon as possible preferably 1 August at the latest. Interviews are held on an ongoing basis so please send your application as soon as possible.

For further information and if you have questions about the position, please contact CFO, Bo Jørgensen Bleeg at [email protected] or phone +45 2750 5105.