Hybrid Financial Management and Social Investment Specialist

at CEA

• Job title: Financial Management and Social Investment Specialist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Barueri, Brazil

About the role

• Financial Management Specialist overseeing the administrative and financial management at C&A. Ensuring adherence and effective collaboration with corporate areas while achieving financial goals.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the focal point for the Institute's administrative and financial management, ensuring technical rigor, compliance, and smooth coordination with C&A corporate areas (accounting, treasury, legal, and tax).
• Ensure budgetary control and high-quality financial execution, applying analytical insight and the ability to anticipate risks, variances, and opportunities.
• Execute the Institute's operational administrative and financial routines, including payment processing, contract monitoring, administrative controls, and interaction with suppliers and internal teams, ensuring compliance, organization, timely delivery, and process continuity.
• Consolidate, analyze, and communicate the Institute's financial indicators, translating technical data into strategic narratives that strengthen the Institute's positioning as a relevant social investor for C&A.
• Lead the preparation and reporting of indicators, indices, and rankings in which C&A participates (e.g., ISP of ISE, GRI indicators, among others), ensuring consistency, reliability, and alignment with ESG agendas.
• Play a leading role in the development and initial implementation of resource-leveraging projects, such as:
• Co-investments and strategic partnerships;
• Fundraising through calls for proposals and funds;
• Cause-marketing initiatives in partnership with different C&A areas.
• In 2026, the primary challenge will be to design, test, and learn—structuring models, processes, and partnerships that prepare the Institute for scaling and diversification of funding sources in subsequent years.
• Balance operational excellence with a long-term strategic vision, linking financial sustainability to the Institute's mission and social impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, International Relations, or related fields.
• Proven experience in financial, budgetary, and administrative management, preferably in third-sector organizations, foundations, corporate institutes, or corporate environments with a strong ESG interface.
• Experience liaising with corporate areas, understanding their workflows, timelines, and priorities.
• Experience with sustainability indicators, reporting, and frameworks (e.g., GRI, ISE, ESG indicators, or similar).
• Desirable (but not essential): prior experience in:
• Fundraising, grant applications, or partnership management;
• Structuring co-investment projects or cross-sector partnerships;
• Cause marketing or corporate impact projects.
• Indicators, reports, and sustainability frameworks (e.g., GRI, ISE, ESG indicators, or similar).

Benefits

• Medical and Dental Insurance (employee and dependents)
• Dr. C&A - Telemedicine and Teletherapy
• Annual bonus
• Parking or commuter voucher (Work location: Alphaville – Barueri/SP)
• Birthday Off — a paid day off during your birthday month
• Flexible working hours
• On-site cafeteria
• Flexible Meal Benefit (Food Allowance and/or Meal Voucher)
• Gympass
• Semi-annual vacation
• Amigo Program (psychological, legal, and social support)
• Pharmacy partnership with payroll discounts
• Discounts on purchases at C&A stores and e-commerce.