Regional Finance Strengthening Specialist

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

Plan International seeks for a Regional Finance Strengthening Specialist to:

• Contribute to the success of Finance Management strengthening work including supporting the development of a robust finance management culture. This will include developing support material for finance managers, providing virtual and on-site support to finance managers and supporting finance managers to access and successfully participate in Plan’s finance management training. 
• Support  implementation of finance program excellence in Region and Support Finance manager to work in the SAP conversion, including the finance management module, to ensure Plan’s approach to finance management is fully informed, transparent and effective

Key End Results

the key responsibilities for this position.

• Support continuous Finance Management improvement as part of the CO preparedness and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical support to Country Offices, and the Regional Hub, including to implement the new online finance management disciplines and approaches and to provide high quality guidelines, tools and upskilling as prioritised by Country Offices.
• Enhance finance management capacity of different teams across the organisation and an understanding of good finance management at senior levels in GH, Regional Hubs and Country offices.
• Support Finance operational excellence program implementation

Drive continuous learning  

• Promote and facilitate an active finance management network across the region.
• Develop, promote and embed finance learning processes and practices across Country Offices.
• Contribute to drafting learning papers that capture lessons from Plan International’s work in order to inform better finance management to improve programme outcomes.

Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

The Individual

Skills and Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of financial management in a project context.
• Significant experience and a strong understanding of training processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate finance management and financial project management, and organisational learning.
• Appreciation of the realities of NGO finance management and how to achieve effective finance management, financial control, monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Able to develop appropriate guidelines, tools and templates for improved finance management and implement them at scale in challenging environments.
• Able to develop global guidance that is simple and practical for Country colleagues to understand and use.
• Strong collaboration skills, able to build cooperation and negotiate compromises.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proven experience of using online technology for communication and learning.
• Fluent in English and Spanish (plus French for the Region of Americas).
• Promotes innovation and learning.

• Takes responsibility for achieving significant results.
• Able to build rapport with wide range of groups.
• Demonstrably committed to Plan’s goals and values.
• Committed to child safeguarding.

Desirable

• Experience in or supporting project financial management in multiple countries.
• Proficient with Excel with knowledge of Power BI.
• Experience of using or training Microsoft Dynamics D365 would be an advantage.

Location: Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic

Reports to: Regional Finance & Operations Director

Fixed Term Contract: 1 year

Closing Date: 6th October, 2025

Click for full profile:  JD for Regional Finance Strengthening Specialists_25MY2025.pdf

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.