Summary

Save the Children's U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities. Save the Children does whatever it takes to be there for children in. Always at the ready, we are among the first to respond and the last to leave, staying as long as it takes to help children and families recover from their losses, restore their lives and build resilience for years to come.

Save the Children is seeking an Associate, Finance Management to provide financial support for Save the Children's U.S. Programs. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring financial and operational processes are running timely and efficiently. You will report to the Senior Director, Finance US Programs and will execute general accounting tasks, support the management of funding sources, and assist with financial monitoring for partner subawards.

What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

General Accounting (55%)

• Partner with Advisors, Finance and Operations and Managing Director to identify and process reclasses
• Review and process gift-in-kind inventory and expense general ledgers.
• Follow all financial policies and processes
• Collaborate with USP finance team to create efficiencies in the accounting process.
• Support processing of invoices and vendor documentation as needed
• Partner with GIK & Warehousing National team to provide up-to-date coding for partner distributions and to update needed financial trackers
• Other duties as assigned

Sub-award Processing Support (20%)

• Assist Advisors, Finance and Operations to review and enter sub-award expenses and process payments to partners
• Assist Advisors, Finance and Operations with financial monitoring of partner sites

Systems Support (25%)

• Partner with Advisors, Finance and Operations and Managing Director to identify and process system data updates for Subaward partners and Donor Awards
• Create partnership analysis codes for distribution and subaward partners
• Collaborate with AP, USP Procurement, IT, and others to link needed charge codes in various systems such as SpendBridge, Tenrox, Agresso, etc.
• Support continuous improvement projects related to Education, Hunger and Resilience
• Approach all processes with achieving simplicity and using innovative approaches

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, plus at least 2 years of relevant experience
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, especially Microsoft Excel
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 3-Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $45,050 - $50,350 base salary.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available ). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children - every day and in times of crisis - transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit-at every opportunity-to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form-in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.