Director of Finance and Support Services

**TITLE**:Director of Finance and Support Services**TEAM/PROGRAMME**:Egypt Senior Management Team**LOCATION**:Cairo**GRADE**: 1**CONTRACT LENGTH**:One year (Renewable)**CHILD SAFEGUARDING**:
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people _either _frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

**ROLE PURPOSE**:As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) in Egypt the Director of Finance & Support Services shares in the overall responsibility for the direction and coordination of the Country Office (CO). The Director of Finance & Support Services in his/her capacity will be accountable to the Country Director for overseeing the support functions - finance, IT, and administration services, and CO lead on legal issues/advice and litigation, and co-accountable with other senior leaders for risk management -in both development and emergency programming contexts.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

**SCOPE OF ROLE:
**Reports to**:Country Director

**Staff reporting to this post**:

- Finance Manager - Operations and Treasury
- Senior Finance Officer - Budgeting and Reporting
- IT Manager
- Administration Senior Officer

**Role Dimensions**: The Save the Children International (SCI) Egypt Country Office (CO) has an annual budget of around USD 12-15 million, working across the country on Child Protection, Education, Health and Livelihoods. The CO has over 250 staff and has offices in 7 governorates in the Upper and Lower Egypt and Greater Cairo through four field offices (and six hubs) in addition to the main office in Cairo.

**KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY**:
**As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, contribute to**:

- A member of the senior management team of the Egypt Country Office.
- Support the development of an organizational culture that reflects SCI values and our full spectrum mandate values, promotes high performance and encourages a team culture of learning.
- Supports teams to deliver outstanding results for children and excellent customer service for our internal customers, members and donors.
- Help design and implement a coherent organizational structure that is consistent with agency practices and appropriate to program needs.
- Help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with: host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs.
- Ensure Egypt Country Office complies with all Save the Children’s Quality Framework Essential Standards and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Ensure that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles during emergencies, working closely with the Regional Office.

**Planning and Budgeting**
- Assist the Country Director (CD) in the management /administration of the Country Office resources and its sub-office(s) including (a) the formulation of country work program and resource allocation, (b) providing effective support and guidance to the Senior Management Team and other key program staff during planning and allocation exercises; (c) monitoring implementation of donor agreements and resource utilization. Highlight variances, provide analyses and recommend resolution or reallocation of resources.
- Work along with the SMT in developing plans to meet funding and programming needs. This includes diversification of funding resources.
- Identify and effectively manage all key risks, especially financial, related to delivering the Country Office program. Develop mitigation plans at proposal stage.
- Ensure correct level of budget authority exists within Country Office and Field Offices.
- Manage financial aspects of budget development for new proposals.
- Ensure appropriate and adequate emergency finance procedures are detailed in the Country Office Emergency Preparedness Plan in order to enable rapid scale up.
- Ensure budget holders understand their responsibilities (e.g., through training).
- Ensure Field Offices receive adequate support to operate efficient accounting systems, including timely receipt of monthly budget variance analysis by budget holders, timely answers to queries and scheduling tasks and deadlines.

**Financial Accounting, Reporting, and Control**
- Manage the Country Office financial systems and provide the SMT and all budget holders a monthly update on the budget variance analysis.
- Ensure with the SMT that systems are in place for the control of all assets, funds, equipment, property, and facilities; submit timely financial reports to centre, Regional Office and donors as required.
- Ensure that effective systems ar