Finance Officer – Caritas Australia Timor Leste

 

Finance Officer – Caritas Australia Timor Leste

 

• Make a difference in a leading international NGO
• Full-time, permanent role based in Dili, Timor-Leste.

 

We are seeking a motivated colleague who can support he Finance Manager to oversee and manage CA financial resources so that revenue and budget goals can be met and compliance requirements can be maintained in our Caritas Australia Timor-Leste (CATL) Office.

 

Let’s talk about you

You will thrive as the Finance Officer if you have:

 

1. A Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or other relevant tertiary qualifications or at least 3 years’ proven experience in accounting management in a development or humanitarian context
2. Proven experience in financial reporting, strong analytical skills and proficiency in accounting packages such as MYOB.
3. Good oral and written communication skills in English
4. Excellent management skills, interpersonal skills and ability to work within a team.
5. Willingness to travel to the districts and remote locations within Timor-Leste including Oecusse
6.  Strong commitment to the Mission of Caritas Australia.

 

Let’s talk about your next role

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Timely processing of payment: Process data entry for income, payments, and payroll into MYOB; process payment including cash, cheques and prepare deposit/withdraw slips. Manage petty cash and assist to cash count.
• Assist in processing monthly payroll and checking in advance acquittal report (checks properly that all acquittal come with the necessary receipts and supporting document attached).
• Process bank and cash reconciliation in MYOB
• Validate supplier invoices from relevance, accuracy and procurement policy compliance.
• Assist checked acquittal report from Partners and update partner database in excel.
• Preparation journals, ensuring detailed working papers are prepared.
• In coordination with logistic, ensure that request for purchases have corresponding quotes.
• Follow-up outstanding travel or training advances and ensure that they liquidated on time.
• Assist Finance Manager for budgeting process
• Address staff inquires related to the budget and expenses

 

About Caritas Australia

Caritas Australia is the Catholic agency for international humanitarian relief and development in Australia. Through relationships with the Church, partners and communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Australia, Caritas Australia helps to end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity.

Our programs promote the good of every person regardless of their religious, political or cultural beliefs. We envisage a world in which children, women and men most vulnerable to extreme poverty and injustice are agents of their own change and architects of their own development.

 

Sound like you?

That’s a good sign! In return for your energy and ideas, we offer genuine flexible work/life balance.

 

We always support a safe, healthy, engaging and productive working environment for all employees and workers, whether that be in your home, an office or a combination of both.

 

Learn more about Caritas Australia, our work and how we’re making a difference at: https://www.caritas.org.au/

 

We welcome people with different skills, and life experiences and encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply.

 

Your application needs to include:

1. A cover letter outlining why you want to work for Caritas, how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the Finance Officer role.
2. Your CV / resume

The application must be addressed to Fernando Pires, Country Representative and delivered by hand to Caritas Australia – Timor Leste, Rua Umberto Da Cruz Akadiru-Hun – Dili, or via email to Ligia.Amaral@caritas.org.au

Requests for the full Position Description can be directed to Ligia, Human Resources Manager - Ligia.Amaral@caritas.org.au made in person at the Caritas Australia office at Rua Umberto Da Cruz Akadiru-Hun Dili Timor Leste.

The closing date for applications is by 5pm on Sunday, 13 February 2022

 

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews

Our commitment to safeguarding

At Caritas Australia, we recognise the personal dignity and rights of all people, especially children and vulnerable adults towards whom we have a special responsibility. If you are offered this position, you will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including police checks and reference checks. If the position requires a Working with Children Check or foreign police check, it is your responsibility to obtain one before starting work. You will also be required to sign our Code of Conduct which includes a section on Professional Behaviour Standards for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults as well as to abide by our safeguarding policies.

Our commitment to diversity

At Caritas Australia, we support an inclusive and diverse workforce. In particular we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for all advertised positions.

 

Caritas Australia acknowledges the Gadigal people as custodians of the land where our Head Office is located and the traditional owners of the land on which our offices are based. Caritas Australia pays its respects to the elders past and present of all nations and clans of First Peoples in Australia