Overview
Provides strategic leadership to ensure the financial strength, operational reliability, and regulatory compliance of Save the Children in Myanmar. The role exists to safeguard organizational resources, uphold robust internal controls, and drive excellence across finance, information technology, and support services functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing high quality financial and accounting to ensure accurate and timely recording of accounting transactions, adherence to financial controls, and compliance with financial standards.
- Being accountable for ensuring and monitoring delivery against financial plans through financial analytical review and forecasting accuracy.
- Developing the financial management capacity of finance staff and budget holders.
- Ensuring compliance with legal and grant regulations and financial management policies and procedures.
- Developing and monitoring implementation of the organization’s policies and process for financial control and risk management.
- Building effective working relationships with finance staff and decision makers in partner organizations and other INGOs.
- Providing surge capacity for emergency response.
- Assisting with financial recruitment across Myanmar.
- Contributing to the development of strategic and operational plans.
- Actively participating in spreading best practice among save the children senior finance professionals in the region.
- Engaging with finance team from centre and regional to support new process/new systems.
- Provide strategic development and operational implementation of all aspects of IT for the country offices.
- Ensure IT policies and procedures are in place in line with global IT policies.
- Ensure right level of IT resources, support and development is in place.
- Develop a culture which sees IT as a key strategic enabling function.
- Ensure that IT governance processes are maintained, and IT projects are managed in line with a common process and delivered as planned and to budget timeliness.
- Provide strategic oversight of Administration and Office Management functions.
- Oversee office facilities, leases, office services, and premises management.
- Ensure strong asset and inventory management systems are in place.
- Lead effective administrative and travel support services.
- Develop, mentor, and manage admin teams.
- Ensure smooth organisation of meetings, workshops, and events.
- Drive continuous improvement in administrative systems.
- Managing the finance team; defining expectations, providing leadership and technical support, and evaluating direct reports regularly.
- Being responsible for the recruitment, training, and promotion of staff as appropriate and ensuring availability of appropriate professional development opportunities for finance staff.
- Managing the performance of all staff in the finance through performance management system and providing ongoing coaching.
- Contribute to overall leadership and direction of the Country Office.
- Promote a culture of accountability, high performance, learning, innovation.
- Ensure alignment with SCI global operating standards and compliance expectations.
- Provide strategic advice to the Country Director and SMT.
- Ensure the managerial environment and operational systems fully support the implementation of the Child Safeguarding Policy and safeguarding framework including PSEA across finance work.
- Promote practical approaches to strengthen staff and partner awareness, compliance, and commitment to child safeguarding within finance teams.
- Take all necessary and appropriate steps to prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption within their areas of responsibility, report and respond to all incidents and concerns and comply with the Counter-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedure.
- Ensure all financial activities, processes and transactions comply with SCIs Fraud, Bribery and Corruption and Safeguarding Policies.
Required Experience
- Significant leadership experience (typically 10+ years) in financial management and support services within international NGOs, UN agencies, or large, complex organisations.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multi donor portfolios, including compliance with major institutional donor requirements.
- Strong expertise in internal controls, risk management, audit readiness, and financial compliance, including in high risk or humanitarian environments.
- Proven track record managing diverse teams across finance, administration, and/or office management functions.
- Strong strategic planning, analytical, and forecasting skills.
- Experience operating within complex regulatory environments, including engagement with authorities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to Save the Children values.
- Experience working in fragile or conflict affected contexts or remote management settings.
- Knowledge of Save the Children systems, donor compliance frameworks, and global policies.
- Understanding of local Myanmar regulatory requirements related to INGOs, financial operations, or office administration.
- Experience leading change management, digital transformation, or strengthening organisational systems and processes.
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a related field.
- Senior level professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CA or equivalent.
