The Executive Director, Finance and Digital Transformation (EDFDT) is a pivotal executive leadership role, created to ensure MAG has the financial strength, systems capability and strategic foresight required to remain resilient, compliant and impactful in a rapidly changing and increasingly constrained operating environment.
As MAG navigates profound geopolitical uncertainty, donor realignment and growing humanitarian demand, this role brings together strategic financial leadership, risk and governance oversight, and the delivery of a multi-year digital transformation agenda. The EDFDT will ensure that MAG has robust financial insight, effective risk management and modern, fit-for-purpose systems that enable informed decision-making, organisational agility and long-term sustainability.
A core focus of the role is to lead and embed meaningful digital and systems transformation in line with MAG’s 2024 – 2028 Strategic Framework, strengthening data, processes and technology to improve efficiency, accountability and impact at scale. Working as a trusted partner to the CEO, Executive Team and Board, the EDFDT will play a central role in shaping how MAG adapts, transforms and positions itself for the future, ensuring strong stewardship of resources while enabling innovation and change across the organisation.
Key Strategic Responsibilities
Executive Leadership and Strategic Stewardship
- Serve as a member of MAG’s Executive Team, contributing to organisational strategy, leadership coherence and collective accountability in a period of significant transition and transformation.
- Act as a strategic adviser to the CEO and Board, providing clear insight on financial sustainability, organisational risk, systems capability and investment priorities.
- Champion a culture of stewardship, transparency, innovation and continuous improvement, aligned with MAG’s values and humanitarian mandate.
- Provide executive leadership across complex, cross-cutting portfolios, ensuring clarity of direction, strong collaboration and delivery through empowered senior leaders.
Strategic Financial Leadership, Insight and Sustainability
- Lead MAG’s strategic financial management, ensuring robust planning, forecasting and analysis that supports confident decision-making in a volatile funding environment.
- Strengthen financial insight and scenario planning to enable the organisation to anticipate risk, respond rapidly to change and align resources to strategic priorities.
- Ensure effective financial governance, compliance, audit and reporting, maintaining the confidence of the Board, regulators, donors and partners.
- Oversee financial stewardship across the organisation, ensuring strong operational finance, business partnering and value for money across programmes and corporate functions.
Risk, Governance and Compliance
- Provide executive oversight of MAG’s enterprise risk management framework, ensuring risks are identified, understood and actively managed across the organisation.
- Ensure strong governance arrangements, effective Board and committee support, and full compliance with statutory, regulatory and ethical requirements across all jurisdictions.
- Act as executive lead for legal, insurance and corporate compliance functions, ensuring proportionate, effective and well-managed external support where required.
- Strengthen organisational resilience by integrating risk, finance, governance and planning into a coherent strategic framework.
Strategy, Planning and Organisational Change
- Lead, with the CEO and Board, the processes that underpin MAG’s strategic framework, organisational planning and performance monitoring.
- Ensure planning, budgeting and investment decisions are aligned, integrated and focused on delivery of strategic outcomes.
- Provide executive oversight of high-value, high-impact strategic projects and change initiatives that cut across departments and functions.
- Build organisational capacity for disciplined execution, prioritisation and change management.
Digital Technology and Transformation
- Set and lead MAG’s strategic direction on digital technology and systems transformation, ensuring digital investment directly supports organisational priorities and operational needs.
- Oversee the delivery of a multi-year digital transformation programme, strengthening systems, data, automation and use of emerging technologies (including AI) to improve efficiency, insight and effectiveness.
- Ensure digital and IT services are resilient, secure, user-centred and responsive, supporting staff and programmes operating in complex environments.
- Embed a culture of digital maturity and innovation, ensuring technology is seen as a strategic enabler rather than a standalone function.
Key stakeholders/collaborators:
As the Executive Director Finance and Digital Transformation, you will be expected to forge strong relationships with other members of the Executive Team to ensure cohesive and effective leadership of the organisation. Close collaboration is expected across all areas of the Executive Team: Executive Director of Programmes, Executive Director External Affairs, Executive Director of People & Culture, Executive Director MAG US.
You will build a strong relationship with the CEO and Board of Trustees, building a strong relationship with the Chair of the Board, as well as Chairs of Committees, including the Audit, Finance, & Risk Committee and Governance Nominations Committee.
Regional Directors will also be key stakeholders, and you will lead your team to ensure strong engagement and buy in of programmes in work on organisational strategy and planning, financial sustainability, and changing approaches to systems and digitisation.