Internals Only: Senior Finance Planning & Reporting Specialist

The Senior Finance Planning & Reporting Specialist coordinates and drives the delivery of financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and financial performance analysis processes across the Alliance. 

The role coordinates the consolidation and analysis of financial performance information, producing reliable and timely management reporting and translating financial data into structured insights to support operational and strategic decision-making. 

In doing so, the role strengthens planning discipline, reporting consistency, financial visibility, and performance monitoring across the organisation, supporting effective resource allocation, financial oversight, and risk awareness. 

• Coordinate and drive the delivery of the Alliance-wide financial planning cycle, including annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-term projections, ensuring alignment of timelines, assumptions, methodologies, and reporting outputs across countries, regions, and global functions. 
• Coordinate the consolidation, analysis, and presentation of financial performance across countries, regions, and global functions, producing clear and timely management reporting with actionable insights to support organizational decision-making. 
• Maintain and strengthen Alliance-wide financial planning and reporting frameworks, standards, definitions, reporting structures, and timelines to ensure consistency and comparability across the organisation. 
• Translate financial data into structured analysis, identifying trends, risks, and variances, and supporting the linkage between financial performance and operational delivery. 
• Prepare and present financial insights, narratives, and performance analysis to support senior management discussions, operational reviews, and governance processes.  
• Coordinate and oversee the preparation and production of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reporting outputs, ensuring financial information is accurate, consistent, decision-oriented, and aligned with organisational priorities.  
• Coordinate and drive variance analysis across actuals, budgets, and forecasts, ensuring key drivers are understood and consistently reflected across reporting outputs.  
• Drive forecasting discipline and continuous improvement across the Alliance, working closely with Finance Business Partners and Finance Operations to strengthen the quality, consistency, and reliability of financial projections and assumptions.  
• Support and coordinate scenario planning, financial modelling, and forward-looking analysis to assess financial implications, operational risks, and planning assumptions.  
• Monitor alignment between financial planning, donor funding flows, and operational delivery, highlighting funding gaps, liquidity considerations, and financial risks for review. 
• Coordinate and drive improvements in financial reporting processes, tools, dashboards (eg PowerBI), and data structures, including optimisation of ERP (eg Unit 4) outputs and enhancement of management reporting capabilities across the Alliance.  
• Ensure consistency and integrity of financial data definitions, structures, and reporting logic across systems and outputs, maintaining a single source of truth for financial information.  
• Coordinate and validate financial planning and reporting inputs across Finance Operations, Finance Business Partners, and Finance Systems functions, ensuring consistency, integrity, and alignment across organizational reporting outputs.  

• Coordinate and contribute to the establishment and ongoing development of an Alliance-wide FP&A function, including planning processes, reporting standards, dashboards, and management reporting approaches. 
• Coordinate and support the continuous improvement of financial dashboards, management information tools, and reporting structures, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and reporting needs. 
• Prepare and present financial analysis, management information, and supporting materials for senior management discussions, governance processes, and organizational planning activities under the direction of the Head of Finance.

• Location : We work with global teams with team members being based in different locations. War Child is currently operates in: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine (soon to be registered), and Yemen. We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Preference is given to applicants who reside and have valid working permits. War Child does not offer relocation.
• Type of Contract : Local contract with salary and secondary labour conditions based on the in-country salary scale, local T&C's will apply.
• Internals only may apply.

• Meaningful Impact : Contribute directly to improving the lives of children and families affected by conflict through quality education and long-term, sustainable change.
• Professional Growth: Join a dynamic organisation that values learning, innovation, and professional development, with opportunities for capacity building and growth through the role and War Child’s global network.
• Global Reach : Play a key role in scaling a ground-breaking programme across multiple conflict-affected contexts worldwide.
• Collaborative & Inclusive Culture : Work alongside passionate, mission-driven colleagues in a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace that prioritises safety, fairness and equal opportunity for all.