The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting time for Plan International as we implement our global strategy for 2021-2024. Our global strategy defines who we are, why we exist, the change we want to see in the world and how we will contribute to making change happen. It underpins everything we do, guiding all our work in all parts of the federation.

To achieve greater change in children’s lives we are dramatically transforming how we operate, and we need bold, forward-thinking and innovative Finance Staff to help steer our operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to transform the lives of 100 million girls globally.

In this exciting part time finance role, you will work as part of Plan International’s Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Hub, under the management of the Regional Finance Director, to provide key regional finance support to both the Asia Pacific Region and the Asia Pacific Hub staff.

Some, but not all, of the accountabilities that you will be responsible for include:

Financial Planning, Accounting, Reporting, PII Annual Audit Support:

• Annually, monitor and remind Country Offices (COs) for timely and complete submission of annual budgeting package
• Annually review up to 5 CO annual budget packages for completeness, accuracy, adherence to the global instructions and budget allocations; and bring points of concerns to discuss with Regional Finance Director and team members
• Monitor and remind COs for timely and complete month-end, and year-end submissions as per PII timelines and requirements
• On a monthly basis, review 5 COs’ month-end items, provide review notes, discuss potential issues/risks with these COs for timely resolutions/corrections/adjustments. Bring concerns to Regional Finance Directors and other team members for inputs, guidance, and support.
• Act as APAC finance focal point for annual PII external audit by working with RFD, GH finance, CO finance, and PII external auditors to ensure timely and correct submissions of required audit items and samples from selected Cos

Capacity Building Support:

• Facilitate, support, and monitor each CO’s progress of PII’s finance online training modules in PLAN Academy
• Identify capacity building needs of COs, propose and facilitate resources required to meet these needs either individually for each CO or collectively for all/many COs.

Others:

• May be required to implement special project or work on special/specific assignment as directed by and agreed with Regional Finance Director

Do you have what it takes?

You should Five-years experience in financial planning and accounting management – preferably in development or not-for- profit sector

You should have a strong proven experience in system management, trouble shooting, and capacity building in computerised Financial Management / Accounting software / systems

You should be fluent in English communication

You should have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Computer Science or equivalent relevant work experiences.

You should have strong organizational and problem-solving skills, and have the ability to work to deadlines

You should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to communicates clearly and effectively, with strong influencing skills.

You should have the ability to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment

You should be Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications, e.g., word processing, spreadsheet, database, web-based system

You should have an In-depth knowledge of financial systems, financial management and reporting

Location: Flexible (within an Asia Pacific country office)

Type of Role: One year Part time role (50 percent)

Reports to: Regional Finance Director

Remuneration: In line with host country office

Closing Date: 31 Oct 2023

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.