As the Grant Accountant, you will be responsible for the financial support of grants and contracts from institutional and private donors. Proficient in project budgeting, utilising a high degree of commercial acumen, problem solving, financial modelling and with excellent stakeholder management skills you will enable the robust financial design and management of field projects.
Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, tackling global issues and supporting our mission to empower Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable.
Your responsibilities:
- Coordinate financial planning process to enable successful business development and implementation.
- Management of donor compliance and financial reporting
- Responsible for the preparation of financial acquittals in line with donor requirements and submitted for review and sign-off in a timely manner.
- Support field offices and country impact managers with project financial management advice including foreign currency, cash flow and budget management.
- Improve efficiency of financial processes underpinned by the principle of good stewardship.
- Identify and report risks during project delivery and recommend appropriate risk mitigations.
- Build rapport and become a trusted advisor to business stakeholders.
- Liase with colleagues in the wider finance department to address project roadblocks and develop sustainable process improvements.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for someone with Experience in financial analysis, business reporting, financial planning, budgeting and forecasting.
You will have:
- 3-5 years of experience ideally within an international or multilateral organisation
- Experience managing institutional donor contracts and compliance.
- Experience building and interpreting financial models in a commercial setting.
- Industry knowledge of international NGO’s, commercial contracting and/or carbon markets
- Ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Microsoft Office 365 including Excel and Power BI
- Accountant with appropriate qualification (Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting, CPA or similar) would be highly desirable.
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better
It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The selection process
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.
This will be a rolling recruitment process, with shortlisting and interviews being completed as applications are received. Don’t delay. Apply now.
Who we are
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, flexible working arrangements, free on-site parking and an onsite café for our employees.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation that is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and communities by tackling the causes of poverty. We are dedicated to increasing opportunities for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in line with our Reconciliation Action Plan
