Accountant
WorldFish, East Timor

Position: Accountant

Location: Dili, Timor-Leste

Application Deadline: 04 August 2022 or until filled

Language(s) required: English (proficient/fluent writing and oral skills)

About WorldFish

WorldFish is an international, non-profit research and innovation organization reducing hunger, malnutrition and poverty across Africa, Asia and the Pacific. For over 45 years, our work on sustainable aquaculture and fisheries has improved the lives of millions of women, men and youth.

Fish and other aquatic foods grown in and harvested from oceans, lakes, rivers and ponds provide income for more than 800 million people and provide 3.3 billion with 20% of their animal protein intake. Our focus on sustainability makes sure that the way we produce and use these foods today means a plentiful future of generations to come.

Our evidence-based solutions range in scale from households to global policies and spans across six interlinked themes: nutrition, gender, climate, sustainability, economy and COVID-19.

We champion aquatic foods for healthy people and planet and believe that a sustainable blue planet of well-nourished children, women and men is within our reach.

WorldFish is part of CGIAR, the world's largest agricultural research and innovation network. For more information, please visit https://www.worldfishcenter.org.

About the Position

The Accountant will support the Country Coordinator, Research Lead and project leaders in the Dili Office in the day to day financial and logistic operations of the country program and in delivering accurate and timely financial reporting to WorldFish headquarters and relevant donors. This role includes collaborating with other members of the Timor-Leste and WorldFish headquarter Financial Services (FS) team to ensure proper accounting of transactions and compliance with WorldFish and donor requirements.

The Accountant will be supportive and offer training and sound advice the relevant partners, contractors and consultants. They will also work with implementing partners, donor/funding organizations and government officials, to ensure high-quality and transparent delivery of financial activity and reporting.

Requirements

This job might be for you if you have the below skills and qualifications:

• Work with senior finance staff at WorldFish headquarter to develop new audit-compliant payment, finance and account keeping systems for the Timor-Leste office.
• Ensure financial records are submitted on time using online systems or to donors in compliance with WorldFish/ donor’s Financial Rules and Regulations.
• Ensure that project expenses are accounted for accurately in the system, and reported to the donor completely, according to agreed timelines and procedures.
• Assist in project management, project administration and logistics from project initiation to project closure including, but not limited to, maintaining proper project accounting files and master data, maintaining asset registers, responding to external and internal queries.
• Handle proper accounting and administration of the General Ledger through posting of accounting journals on daily basis and timely closing of monthly accounts in OCS.
• Ensure timely administration of payroll, banking and disbursement services to all personnel whose payroll is administered by Timor-Leste country office.
• Report to the Country Coordinator, Research Leader or Project Leaders the remaining funding available for projects on quarterly basis or on an ad-hoc basis as requested.
• Support all relevant units in the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Ensure timely reconciliation of bank accounts, project subsidiary ledgers and records to control accounts and with relevant parties, where applicable.
• Support the management of cash transactions on OCS on a monthly basis.
• Maintain and monitor cash flow to ensure adequate fund balance in the bank to run the office including timely fund request to HQ, follow-up, verify and analyse collaborators’, partners’ and consultants’ expense liquidations, and disbursements to collaborators, partners, consultants and service providers.
• Ensure financial reporting and liquidation in accordance with guidelines and policy of donors, CGIAR and WorldFish.

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• A full member of an international professional accountancy body, e.g. ACCA, CIMA or similar; or
• Hold a degree in accountancy with at least 3 years post-graduate experience in a similar role.
• Minimum 3 years’ of relevant work experience of which at least 2 years is in the international non-profit organization.

Job Rewards and Benefits