Accountant

MSI Asia Pacific

MSI Asia Pacific (MSIAP) is part of the MSI Reproductive Choices global partnership.

As our name suggests, we are unapologetically pro-choice. We believe that everyone should have the freedom to determine their own future, on their terms.

Our teams work across 36 countries and six continents, supporting over 93,000 women and girls to access reproductive healthcare - including abortion and contraception - every day.

With the help of our partners and donors around the world, we open doors, advocate for change, and strengthen public and private sector provision. We go further than anyone to make reproductive choice possible, and ensure quality reproductive healthcare is available for the long-term.

By supporting women and girls to make the choices that are right for them, we can make a generation impact - increasing gender equality, breaking cycles of poverty and contributing to several sustainable development goals.

MSIAP is committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and give equal consideration to all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age. We are committed to promoting equality and to safeguarding the welfare of all team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups.

MSIAP welcomes applications from people with relevant lived experience, including people originating from the countries in which MSI works.

The Role:

We are on the lookout for a full-time Accountant to join us at MSI Asia Pacific. Location: MSI Asia Pacific, Fitzroy, Victoria Reports to: Finance Manager Position: Full-Time, Permanent Hours: 76 hours per fortnight Salary: 76,000 to 83,000 per annum + superannuation + salary packaging options

The Accountant is responsible for maintaining accurate and auditable financial records and meeting all MSIAP monthly financial reporting and reconciliation requirements. The role will be responsible for managing the Accounts Payable function. The role will report to the Finance Manager and will work closely with all MSIAP regional support office departments when coordinating month-end processes.

The Function:

The Corporate Services Department which consists of the Corporate Services Director, Finance Manager, and Accountant, plays a critical role in delivering MSI’s mission of ‘children by choice, not chance’ by supporting the MSIAP support office and MSI country programs to expand access to family planning and safe abortion services. The department is responsible for ensuring the broader organisation including Projects, External Relations and Fundraising departments are given the financial, people and culture, procurement and IT support they require. The Corporate Services department are required to maintain strong internal controls, ensure statutory and compliance requirements are met and financial risk is monitored and mitigated. The department retains oversight of all procurement and due diligence requirements and manages the MSIAP treasury function. The department plays a critical role in project development and management through the coordination of the project budgeting process, building financial capacity of country programs to effectively implement the project, conducting project financial monitoring and meeting all donor financial reporting requirements. The department coordinates the annual business planning and forecasting processes and is responsible for financial reporting against business plan targets to MSIAP management and the board. The department is required to work closely with finance staff in the Africa and Asia regional teams, Global Support Office as well as country program finance staff to ensure that all project financial and compliance requirements are adequately met. The department works closely with the fundraising department to ensure the fundraising return on investment is sufficient for the financial sustainability of MSIAP.

Key Responsibilities

• Month-end close: Ensure all monthly journals capturing income and expenditure are recorded by working day 7 of the following month

• Month-end reconciliations: Ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled, and any reconciling items are addressed in the following month

• Monthly financial reporting: Prepare the monthly support office financial reports and cost centre financial reports for the Senior Accountant and Senior Management team

• Invoicing: Prepare invoices based on project contracts as guided by the Projects team and the Finance Manager

• Receipting: Prepare receipts for institutional donors

• Asset Management: Maintain MSIAP’s fixed asset register

• Audit: Assist in the preparation for the annual audit and address audit queries throughout the audit

• Tax: Preparation of monthly Instalment Activity statements and quarterly Business Activity Statements

• Accounts Payable: Full function end-to-end Accounts Payable using Concur, SUN Systems and CBA. Create and maintain Vendor and Employee records. Process Employee Expense Claims

• Supplier due diligence: Ensure supplier due diligence checks are completed in line with the global due diligence policy and conduct periodical vetting check assessments of all MSI country programs that are funded by MSIAP

• Work Cover: Prepare the annual Work cover declaration and renewal

• Administration: Capture action points from team meetings and maintain the corporate services team calendar

• About you

• Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent

• ICAA or CPA member or studying to become a member (desirable)

• Experience

• Experience in an accounting role that has played a key role in the month-end reporting process

• Experience managing Accounts Payable

• Experience working for an Australian INGO (desirable)

• Experience in contributing to an annual audit process (desirable)

• Skills

• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines

• Strong planning and coordinating skills.

• Ability to manage and prioritise a fluctuating workload.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to organise and present information in a compelling and succinct manner.

• Excellent IT skills, including Advanced Word, Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, SUN systems (desirable).

• MSI’s Core Values

• Mission driven: We go to work every day to enable more women to have children by choice, not chance.

• Customer focused: We meet the needs and exceed the expectations of all our customers: service users, donors, host governments and fellow team members.

• Results orientated: We achieve high quality, measurable outcomes, rather than focusing on inputs or processes.

• Pioneering: Through learning, innovation, and risk taking, we remain at the forefront of family planning, safe abortion and reproductive healthcare globally.

• Sustainable: We build effective programmes and change behaviours which will have lasting impact for individuals, their communities and their countries.

• People-centred: Our continued success depends on the creativity, commitment and courage of MSI team members worldwide.

• MSIAP is a child-safe organisation and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation abuse and harassment. All successful applicants will be required to abide by our Child Safeguarding Code of Conduct and our Global Code of Conduct in addition to undergoing a police and working with children check prior to commencement.

• If you think you could excel in this position, but you don’t tick all the boxes below, please get in touch.