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VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

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Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities in Asia to meet their essential health, humanitarian and development needs. Founded by U.S. doctors in 1998, the organization has grown to serve more than one million people each year. Community Partners International focuses on helping communities affected by conflict, violence, and displacement, in remote and hard-to-reach contexts, and marginalized by poverty and exclusion.

CPI has offices in Bangkok and Mae Sot, Thailand. The position will be based in Bangkok with frequent travel to Mae Sot or other countries as necessary.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist Finance Director in managing and overseeing the accounting, internal control, project financial management of the organization and strategic analysis of the organization’s financial health

• Assist Finance Director to maintain full integrity in operation and ensure compliance with the procedures, policies, laws and regulations of the country of operation, etc.

• Ensure standardization of the best and acceptable practices, and implementation of the policies

• Responsible for the professional development plan for the finance staff members and the allocation of finance functions in Thailand

• Supervise and provide guidance to the Finance, Procurement and logistics units in Thailand

• Regularly oversee, analyze and report CPI financial health, the core management budget and cost

• Responsible to ensure the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of regional accounting and reports

• Responsible to ensure compliance with the accounting and reporting standards of Thailand

• Responsible to oversee the operation in Thailand and international payments through Thai and US offices

• Ensure the necessary support are provided to partners and other country offices

• Responsible to oversee the procurement and logistics function of the Thailand office

• Provide capacity-building training to Finance and non-finance staff

Regular Responsibilities

Financial

• Regularly coordinate with staff from a different unit and or field offices to ensure standardization and adaptation of best practices in financial management and suggest a modification to existing in-country policies and procedures for betterment in internal control, risk management and compliance

• Work closely with the regional Finance Managers to regularly produce middle-level management and overview of in-country projects’ financial performance reports for SMT

• Responsible to maintain, update and analyze CPI’s strategic core budget vs cost and regularly report to FD

• Regularly monitor, follow up and verify the organization’s online and credit card expenses

• Review international payment; Wire, credit card, online payment, etc. processed by Thai and US offices

• Assist Finance Director in overseeing the contribution received from different sources and reconciliation of the revenue

• Assist in preparing Annual Operation Budget, providing support to project budgeting and overseeing the financial health of CPI

• Develop tracking and reporting process and tools for internal-external financial reports, Standard Operating Procedures and ensure the reports meet the needs

• Responsible to ensure timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the accounting system as well as compliance with the requirements of CPI, donors and country of operation

• Facilitate internal/external audits and donors as necessary

Procurement and Logistics

• Ensure the procurement and logistics functions are carried out in accordance with the standard of CPI and in incompliance with the donor requirements

• Ensure the procurement and logistics supports are performed with high integrity, transparency, competitiveness and ethical standards

• Review and update the supply chain policies as needed

Partners

• Conduct occasional monitoring visits to partners and facilitate the development of financial and supply chain management capacity development plans for partners

• Work closely with partners to ensure necessary technical support and oversight of the grants implemented by partners

Representation, Capacity Building and others

• Represent CPI in external communication such as donors, partners, suppliers, audits, etc. as assigned by the supervisor

• Work closely with HR on the staff development plan and implementing the plan for the finance and supply-chain staff

• Oversee financial training and provide expert opinion in project Financial management to CPI and partner staff to improve their skills in understanding the accounting, reporting and internal control

• Perform other related duties as requested by the supervisor

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Professional master’s degree qualification in Accounting, Finance (CPA, ACCA), or similar degree

• At least 7 years of experience working in INGO setting overseeing the grants, accounting and financials with minimum 5 years at the managerial level in finance and supply-chain

• Strong computer skills especially in Excel, PowerPoint and Sun accounting system

• Very good in written and verbal skills in English and Thai

• Skills in managing changes, providing capacity building training, team building, ensuring quality and achieving results

• Ability to work under pressure and effectively in a complex work environment, setting competing priorities and willingness to travel

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including cultural sensitivity, assertiveness and negotiating skills

• Ability to carry out the responsibilities independently with minimal technical support

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

All interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:

Community Partners International

Email: recruitment.th@cpintl.org

• The closing date for application is 17:00 p.m., (Sunday, 24 July 2022)

• Please clearly mention the Position and Location you are applying for in the email Subject Line.

• CPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability.

• Candidates are required to declare in advance should there be any relative or family member currently employed in CPI. Failure to do so can lead to termination of the employment contract even after successful selection.

• CPI is committed to safeguard violation against human rights including Child Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) according to CPI’s safeguarding policy. To comply with the Safeguarding Policy is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA and Child Safeguarding, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause. Any breach or violation against the Safeguarding Policy may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of the employment.

• Because of the large volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Contract and position is contingent upon successful award of the project and final approval by the donor.