MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Head Business Partner 

° In collaboration with the Director, FP&A, establish, lead, and develop a strong financial business partnering culture.

° Provide excellent customer-centric finance business partnering service to the WWF secretariat. Serve as a focal point for all financial and accounting work related to WWF International Secretariat operations, including all Executive Team members. Liaise with other finance staff/functions to ensure all portfolio needs are met.  

° Develop a deep knowledge of WWF International business areas, their needs, and priorities, ensuring that leaders understand the financial implications of decisions and available choices. 

° Provide thought partnership, analytics, and problem-solving support to Sr. 

° Leadership to help foster sound decision-making. 

° Provide financial capacity building to non-Finance Leaders across the Secretariat including Secretariat Budget Holders to build and develop financial literacy across leadership and management positions. 

° Accountable for advice and support to WWF International Secretariat Budget 

° Holders in the management of their budgets and forecasts.

° Supporting the construction of business cases through financial challenges and the identification of implications of options considered. Provide support for change projects, including financial return on investment analysis and tracking of financial benefits. 

° Serve as Subject Matter Expert for all Financial matters to internal and external clients surrounding their assigned portfolio. 

Planning 

° Supporting the financial analysis of the WWF International Secretariat to prepare for the business planning processes. 

° Lead the planning, forecasting, and monitoring processes for their business. 

° Building, maintaining, and influencing strong relationships with key stakeholders and budget holders, acting as the link with colleagues, and ensuring that variances, forecasts, and planning assumptions are reported and understood. 

° Identifying sustainable cost reallocation or savings targets and initiatives as part of the business planning cycle, along with understanding and articulating the impact of reforms and their ultimate effect on the business. 

Financial analysis and reporting 

° Oversees the analytics and quality of all financial reports going to the Board, and other senior governing bodies within WWF International.  

° Acting in an intelligent customer role to actively work with the business to understand cost drivers and performance priorities and interpret data to support business decisions.

° Provide and present relevant and accurate financial information related to their business area to various stakeholders. 

° Provide recommendations based on analysis of financial information 

° Grant Support.

° Provides financial and grant business partnering support for all types of funding, through the life cycle of a grant. 

° Liaises with the Head of Grant Management to ensure consistent processes, controls, and training across the Secretariat Business Partner team.

Other 

° Supports continuous improvement of processes about WWF International Finance deliverables. Supports the development and enhancement of Finance’s output, aiming to increase automation, improve efficiency, and strengthen controls. 

° Ensure a cost-effective environment that eliminates waste, and safeguards assets. 

° Maintain a focus on long-term sustainability, leveraging effective cost-recovery practices. 

Team leadership and unit development 

Leads in the recruitment of their team. 

° Manage and empower their team including developing, coaching, coordinating, and supervising roles. 

° Build and maintain relationships with other management and leadership positions across and beyond the division to enable and optimize the ways of working.

° Performs other duties as requested by Finance leadership.

PROFILE

Required Qualifications.  

° Hold a first degree or equivalent qualification and/or be an ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent qualified accountant and 8 years experience. 

° Demonstrated experience in analyzing large amounts of data and producing summaries that provide clear insights. 

° Financial Analysis skills and ideally from an FP&A background. 

° Experience in assisting with business cases and modeling is desirable.