As the Grant Accountant, you will be accountable for financial support of grants and contracts. Utilising a high degree of commercial acumen, problem solving, financial modelling and stakeholder management you will enable the robust financial design and management of field projects.

Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, tackling global issues and supporting our mission to empower Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the development and maintenance of budget and donor guidelines to support the acquisitions process.
- Ability to conduct financial modelling and data analysis for commercial contracts and opportunities.
- Identify financial risks during proposal development and recommend mitigations or elevate issues as appropriate.
- Support field offices and country impact managers with project financial management advice including foreign currency, cash flow and budget management.
- Leverage tools and reports available internally and within the WVI partnership to improve internal financial controls and processes
- Lead the development and delivery of training programmes for the purposes of building financial capacity and knowledge with field offices.
- Responsible for the preparation of financial acquittals in line with donor requirements and submitted for review and sign-off in a timely manner.
- Build rapport and become a trusted advisor to business stakeholders
- Influence decision makers to be principle focused and consider overall impact to the mission of WVA.

Who we’re looking for

- Minimum 5 years of experience ideally within an international or multilateral organisation
- Experience managing institutional donor contracts and compliance
- Experience building and interpreting financial models in a commercial setting
- Industry knowledge of international NGO’s,



commercial contracting and/or carbon markets
- Microsoft Office 365 including Power BI
- Tertiary qualifications in Business, Finance or other relevant discipline
- Chartered Accountant or Certified Public Accountant

WorkingforWorld Vision means you aremaking the worldbetter

It’snot every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world.WorkingforWorld Vision means lookingforward to turning up at work because you knowyou’reabout to dosomethingmeaningful.It means working with35,000 staff and3.3 million supporters in 100 countries whowillstop at nothing tohelp children live better lives.Joina teamthat is bold and courageous,andwherejob satisfaction goes beyondfinancial reward.

The SelectionProcess

For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an setting that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check.

We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.

Who we are

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work. For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us

📌 Grant Accountant (Melbourne)
🏢 World Vision
📍 Melbourne