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Join World Vision as SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
00 AT A GLANCE
ROLE: Senior Financial Analyst
LEVEL: Senior (5-8+ years minimum experience). IC role (no direct reports).
JOB DESIGN: 40% decision support & business insight. 40% planning, budgets, forecasts, and resource allocation. 20% financial management and performance reporting.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: A Bachelor's degree or 8 years of equivalent experience. Additionally, 5-8+ years of work experience with planning, budgeting, analysis, forecasting and modeling, with an understanding of accounting; 5-8 years. Advanced technology skills including use of Excel and PowerPoint, and with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: MBA. Experience with data visualization and reporting tools, including the Microsoft BI stack.
LOCATION: Prefer Seattle (Federal Way, WA) base. Remote possible w/preference for Pacific NW base for ease of travel to the HQ office as needed post-pandemic.
BENEFITS: Yes. Click here to learn more.
COMPANY SIZE: 900+ (World Vision USA) / 34,000+ worldwide (World Vision International partnership)
01 THE JOB At World Vision USA we invite people to positively impact the lives of the world's most vulnerable children through charitable giving. Our recipe includes love of all people, thriftiness, and targeting the root causes of poverty to bring about human transformation and fullness of life. With us every 60 seconds a family gets water, a hungry child is fed, and a family gets the tools to overcome poverty.
As SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST your expertise will be brought to bear on work that is close to the heart of God (in the spirit of Matthew 25:34-40). If you have a passion to connect your talent to life-changing work with impact, look no further. Start the pursuit of a role that sits within the Finance, Planning and Analysis team and together with us take an active role in becoming trusted partners with all business functions. We need your data-driven point of view to participate in a wide variety of services. As the ideal candidate, you’ll have a strategic mindset, love numbers and analysis, and be passionate about utilizing technology to deliver quality data and business insights that contribute to excellent strategic and operational planning and decision-making across the organization. Ultimately picture your work helping more children, families, and their communities overcome poverty and injustice.
You’ll be joining our highly talented and diverse team of fellow believers that will support you personally and professionally every step of the way. Additionally, the high visibility and importance of this work will mean you’ll have regular interactions with multiple cross-functional leaders who will help to make you successful. Report to the Director of Corporate Planning Analysis and Reporting and serve within an 8-person team of financial analysts team that sits within our Strategic Solutions business unit which includes adjacent teams that focus on related functions like audit, risk management, legal, grant solutions, and accounting.
Additional responsibilities include:
You’ll be joining the organization that flipped the script on child sponsorship with the introduction of Chosen®, recognized by AdWeek, MediaPost, Upworthy, Christianity Today, and winner of two 2020 ANA REGGIE Awards. And fundamental to your life: you’re inspired by your faith in Jesus to love God and love your neighbors. Does this sound like you? Want to be a part of creating the future of this incredible organization? We’d love to hear from you.
02 WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE (1) You become a trusted partner that provides the business with data-driven insights in support of decision making and improved performance against organizational goals. ( 2) You provide analysis and financial modeling in support of driver-based budgeting and monthly forecasts. (3) You exercise strategic and critical thinking throughout all aspects of the work, including forming recommendations for change or improvements.
03 WHERE THIS JOB COULD TAKE YOUR CAREER World Vision USA is a part of the larger World Vision International partnership. Globally, we have 34,000+ staff working in 100 countries. Just over 900 of us call World Vision USA home. You'll have opportunities to advance within our robust and talented group of professionals as you continue to stretch and grow your career for the future.
04 ABOUT WORLD VISION USA When you work at World Vision, your passions and talents come together to meet the greatest needs in the world today. We go to ends of the earth and into the margins. Where few go and the road is less traveled. Because Jesus is alive in the hardest places to be a child. We are dangerously soft-hearted. But just the right kind of dangerous. That's because we're a global Christian humanitarian organization. We partner with children, families, and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. We empower people out of poverty. For real. For good. For over 70 years. Jesus' love at the center. Always. We're Christian and follow Jesus' example to show unconditional love to the poor and oppressed. Serving every child we can regardless of faith. Are you feeling called to explore joining us? We hope so.
05 YOU BRING A Bachelor's degree or 8 years of equivalent experience. Additionally, a successful candidate will have 5-8+ years of work experience with planning, budgeting, analysis, forecasting and modeling, with an understanding of accounting; 5-8 years. Advanced technology skills including use of Excel and PowerPoint, and with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems.
06 ADDITIONAL SKILLS WE'RE INTERESTED. You've earned an MBA. Any experience you have with data visualization and reporting tools, including the Microsoft BI stack.
07 LET YOUR WORK BE YOUR FAITH IN ACTION Every day, nearly 16,000 children under the age of 5 die from preventable causes. Our call to action is urgent. That’s why we’re looking for someone who is ready to place their expertise behind helping the world’s most vulnerable children.
08 SALARY RANGE & BENEFITS Your salary is important to you so it’s important to us. Please indicate the range you're targeting when asked during the application process. In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round out our total compensation package. Click here to learn more.
09 TO APPLY Press the appropriate button on this page.
10 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Glad you asked. We owe you that and strive to not leave you wondering. We review applications nearly every day assessing strength of fit for the role. Sometimes questions arise on our end so we message you to learn more. Short-listed candidates are contacted for an initial phone conversation with our recruiting staff. Moving deeper into our selection process you can expect to interview 1:1 with a hiring manager. Finalists normally participate in a panel interview where the opportunity to meet additional members of our staff lends itself to more of a 360-view of the role. Our most valuable resource is our talented staff. Our goal is to fill this vacancy with the right person in the shortest amount of time, so we have all hands-on deck to move this important work forward.
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