Staff Accountant at Nature Conservancy

Staff Accountant at Nature Conservancy – Nature Conservancy Kenya Job Details

About Nature Conservancy

• We work with local communities, governments and organizations to conserve Africa’s important places. Africa is special. Its wild lands and waters are home to incredible numbers and diversity of species living close to people. For most rural Africans, connection to place takes on unique meaning, more so than anywhere else on Earth because their daily existence depends on the productivity of their natural resources. Challenges in Africa Some 60 percent of Africa’s lands and waters – community property, in a sense – are managed by the people who live on them. These people are undoubtedly the most vulnerable on Earth. A continuing threat is their lack of control over the communal lands and waters they depend on for survival. And as the people struggle, so too does the wildlife that relies on the same resources. An absence of strong institutions and governance further compounds these challenges. Therefore, our work in Africa is focused on perfecting and exporting the best examples of community-led conservation across the continent’s vast shared lands and waters. These examples are ones that provide tangible benefits to people. Conservation has to pay to be successful.

What We Can Achieve Together

• The Staff Accountant plays a critical role in our newly implemented Journal Entry Shared Services Team which is a key component of the Accounting Center of Excellence (“ACE”). The establishment of the Shared Services is to support the advancement of TNCs goals: sharpening our focus, strengthening our culture, and driving operational excellence. This role will have the opportunity to support organization wide operational excellence through optimization of people, processes, systems, and compliance via performing and delivering core finance services/workstreams in accounting. ACE sits within the central Finance Business Unit (BU), which will allow for more standardized processes, creation of more efficiencies and synergy across the core finance services/workstreams.

• Specifically, the Staff Accountant will execute results in the new Shared Services Team of ACE, by providing specialized accounting services at the business unit level. The role will partner with ACE leadership and liaise with BU finance staff to provide guidance and financial support and process journal entries for business units.

• This is a full-time, fully remote position that is open to all locations where TNC is able to hire staff, but with specific preference to local nationals in the Asia-Pacific Region (Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands. Indonesia-based applicants will be processed through our local partner), Africa (Angola, Gabon, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia), and Europe (Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom).

• The Staff Accountant provides specialized services in processing journal entries, accounting or similar financial activities for a department or business unit. They are an expert in their area of specialization. They administer and maintain finance/accounting activities in accordance with TNC policies and procedures and best practices in financial management. The Staff Accountant provides assistance to staff in their specialty area.

Responsibilities & Scope

• Reviews and registers journal entries, interprets results of transactions and communicates necessary actions needed to comply with accounting standards and business procedures.
• Ensures TNC policies and procedures, financial standards and legal requirements are met.
• Reinforces consistency in the organization’s policies and procedures and provides support related to relevant field.

We’re Looking For You

Are you looking for work you can believe in? At TNC we strive to embody a philosophy of Work that You Can Believe in where you can feel like you are making a difference every day. We’re looking for someone with strong experience in working with a diverse, multi-disciplinary team.

The ideal candidate should have exceptional communication and collaboration skills and experience in management of controls and reports of a business unit. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing mission of conservation by directing and shaping the work of our team!

The ideal candidate will have all or some of the qualifications. If you don’t have all of them, please apply anyway and tell us about your skills and experience:

Skills

• Multi-lingual skills and/or multi-cultural experience appreciated.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong organization skills.
• Non-profit accounting experience.
• Service orientation and ability to effectively communicate using a variety of media (e.g. email, Zoom, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, phone).

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field and 3 years’ related experience or equivalent combination.
• Experience with basic accounting principles.
• Experience with GAAP and fund accounting principles, practices, and regulations.
• Experience using automated accounting systems.