Accounting and Audit Manager - Asylum Access

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Mexico, Remote

Asylum Access works alongside forcibly displaced people as they seek safety, dignity, and the opportunity to shape their own futures.

Through legal empowerment, policy advocacy, and collaboration to improve global systems, we support refugees as they assert their rights—to live in safety, move freely, work legally, and access education. Our work aims to contribute to sustainable, rights-based solutions that respect autonomy and honor refugees’ ability to make decisions about their own lives.

Our work is rooted in partnership. Asylum Access is a global team and a family of locally-led civil society organizations across Asia and Latin America. Our national organizations are primarily staffed and led by people from the communities where we work, and our relationships with clients and partners are grounded in mutual trust, respect, and accountability. Globally, we collaborate with institutions and allies to help strengthen systems and policies so they better uphold the rights of refugees. Through our work on rights and governance, we work to support lasting systemic change that helps shift power toward refugees and their communities.

We envision a world where every forcibly displaced person has their dignity and rights respected, their voices lead change, and they have the safety, support, and opportunity to rebuild their lives.

The Accounting and Audit Manager leads the org-wide Accounting Department to achieve its mission in maintaining the integrity of accounting data and production of high-quality financial reports. The Accounting and Audit Manager is responsible for the day-to-day accounting for the headquarters’ financial transactions; developing, implementing and ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and maintaining and continuously improving the system of financial controls; including general accounting, investment accounting, subgranting, grantmaking, tax-exempt compliances, banking, payroll, and benefits. This staff member will work directly with headquarters (HQ), and closely with Asylum Access Mexico (AAMX), Asylum Access Thailand (AAT) and Asylum Access Malaysia (AAM) staff.

• Lead the general accounting function for HQ, ensuring accurate and timely financial records and reporting.

• Supervise accounting activities across Malaysia, Thailand, and Mexico, ensuring consistency and compliance with organizational standards.

• Develop and prepare accounting and financial reports to support internal monitoring and decision-making.

• Lead the annual external audit process, coordinating requirements, documentation, and communication with external auditors.

• Lead tax compliance across the organization, ensuring timely and accurate fulfillment of applicable tax obligations.

• Plan and conduct internal audits to strengthen financial controls, identify risks, and support compliance across the organization.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. CPA certification or equivalent

• Bilingual in Spanish and English

• Excel proficiency a must

Experience

• 5 years related accounting experience in private corporation/public charity settings

• Experience using a computerized accounting system, specifically Microsoft Dynamics and solid knowledge of MS Office applications

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong time management and organizational skills. Able to prioritize work effectively and adapt to multiple demands

• Ability to communicate effectively and concisely both verbally and in writing

Competencies

• Strong initiative and ability to take ownership of projects, management multiple deadlines, and work effectively with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy

• Cultural competence and intelligence, ability to work in a diverse, multicultural workforce

  Comfortable working individually and in concert with positions across the various functions and levels of the organization and with external partners, recognizing and valuing the need to adapt and respect other cultures and languages

• Approaches work with openness and humility, adapting thoughtfully to changing contexts while remaining grounded in shared values.

• Prior experience working with refugee-led organizations or involvement in community-led initiatives is an asset

These values guide how we show up, stand alongside communities, and shape a more just world together - informing the way we work, make decisions, and build partnerships:

Respect & Empathy: We treat every person with dignity, listen deeply, and center the experiences of forcibly displaced communities in all we do.

Integrity: We act with honesty, transparency, and consistency - standing by our commitments and holding ourselves accountable to the communities we serve.

Lived & Community-Rooted Leadership: We believe meaningful change is led by those closest to the issues. We support leadership by people with lived and community-rooted experience of displacement and injustice, recognizing their knowledge, insight, and vision as essential to transforming systems.

Curiosity & Courage: We ask bold questions, embrace learning and adaptability, and push for change- even when it’s difficult or uncertain.

Collaboration & Partnership: We build relationships rooted in trust and shared purpose, knowing long-term progress comes from working together.

Justice: Justice drives us to address both the immediate challenges faced by forcibly displaced people and the deeper, long-standing problems that keep injustice in place. Together with forcibly displaced communities, we work to heal harm, restore dignity, and create lasting change.

The following are the goals of the organization for 2026-2030:

• Goal 1: Refugees have access to rights and protection

• Goal 2: Refugees are leading in decisions and solutions that affect their lives

• Goal 3: Aligning how we work with what we stand for by investing in people and leadership, nurturing a culture of care and learning, staying grounded and responsive, building values and aligned systems, sustaining and diversifying our resources.

Multi-cultural team, flexibility working remotely, healthcare stipend, wellness days, end of year break

Start date: as soon as possible