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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION

The Director, Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis – Global Centre leads a
team that is responsible for the financial aspects of financial planning,
reporting and analysis for the WVI Global Centre. This is a critical role that
supports the Senior Director, Corporate Accounting, Financial Planning,
Reporting and Analysis and works closely with the Chief Financial Officer to
ensure the budgeting processes, reporting and analysis for the Global Centre
is timely, accurate and supports strategic conversations regarding resource
allocation in line with Our Promise.

To achieve this, the position is responsible for

-->Leading the team.
-->Overseeing timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis to the Chief Financial Officer, the Executive Leadership Team, senior leaders and managers in the Global Centre.
-->Building strategic reporting and analysis capability that facilitates strategic resource allocation decisions of the Global Centre allowing leaders to invest in activities to deliver of Our Promise.
-->Driving a customer focused culture, ensuring staff develop a deep understanding of the business units of the Global Centre from the perspective of Executive Leadership and Partnership Leaders, and cost centre managers.
-->Leading and oversee projects to continuously improve reporting and analytics by utilizing new technology capability and working with the Director, Data, Systems and Services to drive new capabilities.
-->Working closely with peers to understand the end-to-end Support Office/Global Centre/Field Office financial eco-system and ensuring budgeting, financial reporting and analysis is consistent and aligned.
-->Working closely with peers to ensure financial systems and processes are seamless from a customer perspective.
-->Advising on issues related to partnership budgeting, reporting, compliance, internal controls, liquidity, and systems.
-->Initiating and participating in global and departmental initiatives.
-->Being a thought leader on broader Partnership financial management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Partner with the business to leverage accurate, timely and insightful
reporting and analysis and achieve business outcomes.

Design and continuously improve a reporting framework for the Global Centre to
ensure reports are streamlined, timely, clear, provide actionable insights,
inform decision making and meet customer needs.

The involves

-->Thinking forward and pre-empting and identifying key decision and reporting needs of stakeholders in future years possibly before they even ask, driven primarily from the vision articulated in Our Promise and from deep knowledge of stakeholders.
-->Identifying appropriate sources of data that need to be captured and design solutions for capturing data in systems, utilizing systems thinking skills, technology developments, internal controls and quality control.
-->Be the business owner for the Finance systems projects designed and implemented as a result of needing to capture the new data, engaging stakeholders and driving the Finance Data, Systems and Services team and IT to deliver an appropriate technological solution.
-->Design and oversee the implementation of new reporting and analysis that can be created as a result of the new data available.
-->Review the existing reports and analysis to identify their appropriateness of need for update and rebuild as a result of the new data and technology available.
-->Seek feedback from customers and iterate reporting and analysis to be fit for purpose.
-->Oversee the production of regular reports and analysis to stakeholders monthly, quarterly, annually, key meetings to ensure decision makers are empowered with accurate and timely information to support their activities, including cost centre reporting.
-->Be a trusted advisor to the Senior Director, Corporate Accounting, Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis and Chief Financial Officer, ensuring they have appropriate information and insights for decision making.
-->Manage a team of trusted Finance Business Partners to work closely with Executive Leaders, Partnership Leaders and cost centre managers on business cases and other financial analysis to support their decisions.
-->Ensure integration and alignment with the activities of peers to build a seamless customer experience.

Lead the Global Centre annual cycle from planning through to year end.

Collaborate with peers to ensure alignment and integration of processes and
activity of the annual financial cycle from planning to year-end close, in
particular

-->Lead the Global Centre annual and multi-year planning and budgeting process, by
-->Designing the process for the upcoming fiscal year, ensuring alignment with all aspects of the global planning process;
-->Leading the preparation of financial information for the Chief Financial Officer as they facilitate high-level resource negotiations and planning parameters with the Executive Leadership Team at the start of the process;
-->Overseeing the production of tools, templates and communications to execute the process;
-->Leading the execution of the process across all Global Centre departments, supported by a team of Finance Business Partners and analysts;
-->Being an escalation point for issues identified by Finance Business Partners during the process and negotiating resource allocation with Executive Leaders, Partnership Leaders and cost centre managers to ensure compliance with approved budget paramete