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ABOUT ASHOKA

Ashoka is the world’s leading association of social entrepreneurs — men and women with system-changing solutions that address the world’s most urgent social challenges. We have been selecting and supporting Ashoka Fellows for the past 40 years, providing strategic long-term support to more than 3,800 of them in 84 countries.

FINANCE MANAGER ROMANIA- Maternity Leave Replacement

For our office in Bucharest, Romania, we are looking for a new team member to manage our finances of our legal entity in Romania. The ideal candidate has a financial background, strong analytical skills, hands-on mentality, love for details & data, who is a real team player and has a passion for social entrepreneurship. Our new team member should be the go-to person for all topics related to finance including, but not limited to:

Controlling

• Developing, coordinating and assessing the annual budget planning process in cooperation with relevant stakeholders
• Gathering data/input from budget holders, elaborating the yearly country and program budgets, ensuring yearly budgets are approved
• Forecasting
• Reporting to the global organization on monthly basis
• Comparing budget to actual figures and respective analysis
• Preparing and providing monthly financial reports to the Country Director
• Supporting reporting to funders from a financial/cost perspective

Accounting and Invoicing

• Issuing and managing invoices and following up on payments, including salesforce updates
• Managing bank accounts, preparing all wires and ensuring wire approvals by Country Director
• Managing relationships with the external local accounting firm
• Coordinating the yearly financial statement closing with the external local accounting firm
• Checking quality and correctness of bookkeeping and actuals as provided by external local accounting firms (with budget owners)
• Being aware of local charitable regulations that impact accounting systems

Tax & Other

• Supporting in finding solutions for tax related issues in specific country settings
• Improving financial processes and systems continuously
• Being the point of contact for Finance in Romania for the global organization
• Knowledge of, interest in, working in the framework of various charitable/tax-exempt statuses, circumstances and regulations
• Monitoring and optimizing cash-flow

About the position:

• Working language is English, Romanian is a plus.
• Position is based in Bucharest, Romania. Some traveling in Europe possible.
• 2 days a week (16 hours)
• Being part of the fantastic local Team in Romania, being part of the European Operations Team and Ashoka worldwide.

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Applications are accepted until 20^th of November 2024.

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