Job Title:                Finance Officer, South East Asia and the Pacific Department

Location:                Cotabato City or Manila, Philippines

Reporting to:          Finance Manager, South East Asia and the Pacific Department

Duration:               Fixed term contract until 31st December 2025 (Subject to funding)

Salary:                   PHP509,184 per annum plus pension (PHP42,432/month pro-rated)

Conciliation Resources

Conciliation Resources is an independent international organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence, resolve conflicts and promote peaceful societies. We believe that building sustainable peace takes time. We provide practical support to help people affected by violent conflict achieve lasting peace. We draw on our shared experiences to improve peacebuilding policies and practice worldwide. We have worked in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific regions since 1994 and currently work in the Republic of Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.

Our work seeks to contribute to building more peaceful societies through enhance analysis and comparative knowledge and through supporting and implementing targeted and adaptive peacebuilding programmes. We seek to build knowledge through context and conflict analysis; contribute to change through long-term accompanying partnerships; and enhance context-specific peacebuilding practice through comparative learning. 

Within the Pacific region Conciliation Resources supports community led peacebuilding initiatives, working with numerous civil society partners, including in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Bougainville, PNG. The programme also supports processes of political dialogue, mediation support and comparative learning. Conflict challenges the programme is currently working on include: dealing with past legacies of conflict; the intersection between governance and peace; masculinity, youth and violence; and climate change and conflict. 

Job Purpose

We are headquartered in London, with a branch office in Melbourne (Conciliation Resources Australia). The SEAP Department also has team personnel and offices spaces in the Philippines and Fiji. 

The Finance Officer will have responsibility for a range of finance functions and services. The role is responsible for providing technical finance assistance to the organisation including the programme teams to ultimately support the delivery of the work of Conciliation Resources. 

The Finance Officer works closely with others in the Finance Team and other staff across Conciliation Resources as well as our organisational partners. This is a key role in both delivering and assist in developing our financial controls framework, processes and procedures and being able to respond and solve problems. 

Please note that all candidates who apply for this position must have the right to work in the Philippines as the role is based in Cotabato City, Philippines.

Added benefits of working at Conciliation Resources Australia: 

  • We provide 25 days of annual leave each year. 
  • Days off between 25th December - 1st January with no loss of annual leave.
  • Flexible working at home arrangements.
  • A generous top-up to the Government Parental Leave payments and the opportunity for parents returning to work to request flexible working arrangements. 
  • Employee Assistance Program, a free and confidential counselling service. 
  • Additional sick leave benefits during longer period of sickness.
  • 5 paid days of study leave per year.
  • Up to 10 days of paid Compassionate leave.
  • Option of paid Sabbatical leave for full time and part time permanent employees after 4 continuous years of service.
  • Health Insurance
  • 9% Superannuation

Person Specification

Essential Knowledge and Experience

  • Graduate study or local equivalent by experience in accounting, business, finance or similar.
  • Proficient knowledge and experience of Infor SUN or equivalent accounting system.
  • Proficient knowledge of MS Office (excel) and database software. 
  • Experience of using financial accounting software to maintain ledgers, prepare bank reconciliations, exporting data for subsequent interpretation and other financial systems to place orders or retrieve information to support budget holders and keeping organisation financial records up to date.
  • Experience of undertaking a range of financial administrative duties including data input and retrieval. 
  • Excellent numeracy and accuracy skills with a high level of attention to detail. 
  • Able to work quickly and accurately to tight deadlines. 

Desirable Knowledge and Experience

  • Knowledge of AASB accounting standards for charity accounting.
  • Knowledge of BIR regulations including payroll and tax.
  • Experience of handling financial reporting to institutional donors such as the DFAT and EU.
  • Experience of handling an organisation’s payroll processes.
  • Experience of processing financial transactions for expenditure in multi-currencies.
  • Experience of working with staff who are not office based on financial issues.

How to apply

Please do not send your CV or resume at this stage.

Please submit the Applicant Form and Applicant Statement to aurecruitment@c-r.org by 5pm AEST, 18 October 2024. 

Please see the Job Description for more details on the post. 

If you have specific questions regarding the role, please contact aurecruitment@c-r.org. 

We thank you for your interest in the role and our organisation, however only those applications shortlisted will be contacted.