The Senior Budget Officer supports GPSEA’s Budget and Planning Pillar by supporting the coordination and consolidation of the annual budgeting process, maintaining planning tools and templates, preparing budget-to-actual analysis and reports, and supporting forecast and rephasing cycles across departments, projects, and country offices.
The role provides timely analysis, helps strengthen budget discipline and data quality, and supports informed resource allocation and decision-making under the guidance of the Finance and Administration Director.
This is a 1-year fixed-term position based in Bangkok, Thailand. Candidates who have the legal right to work and live in Thailand are encouraged to apply.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supporting the annual budget cycle, periodic forecasting, and rephasing processes across assigned departments, projects, and country offices.
- Maintaining budget planning tools, templates, schedules, assumptions, and coding references to ensure consistent and reliable planning information.
- Producing first-level budget analysis and helping management and budget holders understand financial trends, spending performance, and planning implications.
- Coordinate budget submissions, review them for completeness, consistency, and accuracy, and consolidate them into working budget files and management packs.
- Prepare monthly budget versus actual reports, follow up significant variances with budget holders, and update forecast and rephasing trackers based on agreed actions.
- Support monthly budget review meetings, maintain action trackers, and improve planning tools and templates to strengthen budget ownership and ease of use.
- Support budget holders on the use of templates, phasing, forecasting, and routine planning requirements, escalating complex issues to the Finance and Administration Director.
- Work closely with the Senior Regional Finance Manager and Finance colleagues on budgeting, analysis, and reporting priorities.
- Support the Regional Finance Coordinator in coordinating with budget holders, programme, campaign, project, People, Operations, and Grants colleagues to collect planning data and support timely decision-making, and capacity building.
- Support compliance with applicable donor or grant budgeting requirements within the budget planning process, as assigned.
- Provide budget information and orderly supporting files for audit or review processes when requested through management.
- Ensure budget calendars, submissions, monthly reports, forecast updates, and rephasing exercises are completed within agreed timelines.
Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in environmental advocacy, social justice, communications, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including leadership or project management roles.
- Demonstrated ability to align local campaigns with broader regional and global strategies.
- Understanding of Thailand’s social, political, and cultural landscape, with expertise in climate and fossil gas issues.
