Area of Assignment: Manado
This seasoned paraprofessional assists in completing broad accounting support tasks such as bank reconciliations, reimbursements, periodic close out activities, disbursements, financial statement preparation, accounts payable, global roll ups, and international partner billings. The incumbent may perform accounting support work for GMC or remote offices including reconciling and recording periodic entries, and calculating and processing support & gifts. Based on the actual work group assigned, the incumbent in this position may perform some or all of the essential functions listed, as well as other related duties. This seasoned accounting support position may provide coaching and technical advice to other assistant and offices.
Responsibilities
- Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
- Provides skilled support to accounting team, organizing and scanning backups, entering transactions, reconciling accounts, completing journal entries, and maintaining documentation. May occasionally provide general administrative support to assigned team.
- Researches and resolves issues such as past due credit card balances, outstanding payments, and accounts payables discrepancies. Responds directly to internal clients such as employees and leadership regarding finance and accounting issues.
- Performs skilled bookkeeping duties such as calculating monthly office support, preparing various forms and folders for approval, and forwarding documents such as Capital Requisition Forms and Capital Asset Transaction Forms for inclusion in the Fixed Asset system. Helps ensure that significant contracts are properly executed for building leases and in other obligations.
- As the subject matter expert, administers and provides training content for expense management system.
- Performs disbursement and/or reconciliation of petty cash, accounts payable, employee credit cars, reimbursements, and similar issues, ensuring that proper documentation is received and is in compliance with policy.
- Provides skilled accounting services to various finance and accounting teams performing duties such as overseeing foreign exchange brokering, entering and tracking vouchers, overseeing wire transfers, maintaining daily cash spreadsheet, Exchange Rate Report spreadsheet, and expense report processing.
- Supports project accounting and financial decisions making related to projects, ensuring consistency with budgeted expenditures and allocations throughout the project life cycle. She or he reviews forecast-to-complete and other project progress projections for management reporting and consults with project leadership regarding regular project cost reports such as variance and cash flow.
- Provides coaching and technical advice to other staff.
Culture
- Accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion's core "Cultural Behaviors" in all internal and external communication and relationships.
Education
- 3 year-diploma or Bachelor's degree, in line with accounting
Experience
- Five years relevant experience working in this or a related field.
*Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above
Travel Requirements
- No travel required for this role. However, the manager may ask the employee to travel for certain activities as needed.
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What We Do
Compassion International is a Christian child development ministry aimed at releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty in Jesus’ name.
We are church-based: Compassion believes the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world.
We believe the strategic placement of local churches makes them best suited to address the holistic needs of the children in their communities. And only they can effectively deliver the Jesus-based teaching and whole-life care that children in poverty deserve. Compassion partners with 8,000+ churches in 25 countries around the world to deliver our holistic child development program.
We are child-focused: Compassion’s ministry is focused on the individual child and his/her development. We offer this assistance irrespective of caste, creed, class or religion. At Compassion, we believe entire communities will feel the positive impact of our presence because what happens in the life of a child ripples throughout his or her environment.
We are Christ-centered: Jesus is the core of our ministry and his life and teachings shape our programs. They reflect the spiritual commitments of our staff. And they guide how we love people, respect communities and cooperate with nations.
We are committed to integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest professional and biblical principles in all aspects of our ministry and maintain the highest industry standards for our allocation of funds.
Compassion and Compassion International are registered trademarks of the United States government