Finance Associate

**ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM PROFILE** **POSITION DETAILS** The Finance Associate will support the Finance Lead in tasks such as expense management, tracking, and reporting, as well as Accounts Payable and Receivable and general expense policies and protocols. The Finance Associate will join our growing Argentina team and require a high degree of entrepreneurialism, a strong can-do mentality, a highly proactive, hands-on approach, strong attention to detail and excellent financial and operational skills. Specific responsibilities for the role are outlined below: **Accounts Payable** - Handle end-to-end accounts payable processes, including reviewing, coding, and entering vendor invoices into the accounting system - Verify the accuracy and completeness of invoices, purchase orders, and payment requests - Ensure proper authorization and documentation compliance for invoice processing - Match invoices with purchase orders and delivery receipts to ensure accuracy and resolve any discrepancies - Reconcile vendor statements, including tax witholdings, and resolve outstanding issues - Prepare and process weekly/monthly payment runs, ensuring all payments are accurate and timely - Collaborate closely with teams to identify and resolve invoicing or payment discrepancies - Maintain organized files and documentation related to accounts payable activities - Assist in month-end and year-end closing activities, including accruals and account reconciliation - Support the Finance Lead and Operations team members in various ad-hoc tasks and projects **Expense Tracking and Oversight** - Maintain and share to the team the coding and dimensions of accounting system, including updating and requesting new codes for departments, funders, and entities - Oversee and ensure all entries into intacct system are correct and complete on a consistent basis - Identify, monitor, and allocate automatic deductions, such as rechargeable and debit card expenses and payroll - Review the GL on a consistent, recurring basis to ensure proper and coding, and appropriateness, of expenses - Support the Finance Lead in monthly closing process - Maintain tracking of salary allocations across the Argentina office **Reporting, Controls, and Compliance** - Support financial record keeping best practices, using the organizational software, Intacct - Work with global and country operations teams to discern and implement new processes, procedures or tools that would improve the accuracy and efficiency of our accounting systems - Work with the Finance Lead and Operations team to ensure accountability compliance and reporting, oversee budget reviews and reports, manage offices payments, transactions. Conduct conversations with local external accountant. Support accountability reports for on the ground projects and secure expense report validation - Calculate quarterly allocations of indirect costs across organizational business units **Day-to-Day Accounting processes support** - Oversee business-as-usual internal accounting operations including data entry, cash flow management, and expense tracking **Audit and tax support** - Ensure Argentina team's accounting system and records meet audit and tax requirements for Argentina and for the global NGO - Prepare necessary documents and records required for yearly audit and yearly tax report - Respond to audit requests from both Argentina and global auditors This full-time role will be based in our office in Buenos Aires and will report directly to the Finance Lead. **REQUIREMENTS** - Minimum 2+ years of relevant work experience in accounting - Minimum bachelor's in accounting, Finance, Business Administration or Economic Sciences - Professional fluency in Spanish and English (both written and oral) - Strong Excel analytics skills and experience building financial statements for non-profit organizations (e.g., budget forecasting, finance operations, reporting) - Multi-disciplinary problem-solving skills including demonstrated conceptual and analytical problem-solving skills (e.g., distilling insights from research and discussions) - Customer-orientation with experience supporting teams with complex implementation projects with various stakeholders preferred - Highly detail oriented and organized - A desire to work in a mission-driven organization focused on delivering impact - An entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to thrive in "build the plane as you fly it" environments: comfortable managing the ambiguity and risks inherent to innovation; adapting to the situation at hand; staying positive and creative in the face of setbacks and driving rapid progress