Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Specialist, Business Analysis – Cost Optimization Initiative to join our global team.
Team Purpose
Save the Children is launching the Cost Optimisation Initiative to improve organizational sustainability, strengthen value for money, and maximize resources available for children and programme delivery. The aim is to build a simpler, smarter, and more efficient Save the Children that delivers greater impact for children through better use of every resource entrusted to us.
Role purpose
The Senior Business Analyst (BA) will serve as a key delivery resource within the organization-wide Cost Management Initiative, supporting the identification, design, and implementation of sustainable cost reduction and operational efficiency opportunities across Global Teams and Country Offices.
The role will lead sophisticated business analysis, operational diagnostics, process redesign, requirements engineering, and transformation design activities across multiple global functions including Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Awards, Operations, Shared Services, and Enterprise Systems.
The Senior BA will play a critical role in shaping future-state operating models, identifying strategic efficiency opportunities, facilitating executive-level decision-making, and translating business priorities into implementable transformation initiatives. The role requires deep expertise in enterprise transformation, organizational redesign, finance operations, process optimization, and stakeholder influence within highly matrixed organizations.
Experience and Skills
Essential
Desirable
Education and Qualifications
Essential
Bachelor’s degree in information systems or related field
Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering
Process Excellence & Transformation
Desirable
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found at SCI Careers. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our Recruitment Process
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-Harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
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