The Finance Coordinator
supports GPSEA’s Finance and Administration function by strengthening the quality assurance and integrity of budgeting, planning, and financial reporting processes.
The role supports the review of the Budget and Planning process, performs data validation and financial checks to ensure accuracy and consistency, and supports the preparation of internal and external financial reports.
The role helps improve data integrity, reporting quality, and cross-functional coordination across departments, projects, and country offices, and contributes to reliable financial information for management decision-making, compliance, and accountability.
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:
- Support quality assurance of budgeting, forecasting, rephasing, and financial reporting processes to improve the reliability and consistency of financial information.
- Support the review of planning and reporting outputs to ensure completeness, logical consistency, and alignment with approved assumptions and coding structures.
- Contribute to strengthening data integrity, reporting discipline, and standard financial controls across departments, projects, and country offices.
- Review budget working files, forecast updates, rephasing schedules, and budget versus actual reports before submission to management.
- Validate financial data across templates, schedules, reports, and supporting files to ensure arithmetic accuracy, coding consistency, completeness, and integrity.
- Perform cross-checks between planning files, accounting records, and reporting outputs to identify discrepancies, unusual movements, or missing information.
- Support the preparation and consolidation of internal financial reports, management reports, donor reports, and other external financial reporting requirements as assigned.
- Maintain reporting files, validation checklists, and supporting documentation in an organised and version-controlled manner.
- Follow up identified issues with relevant finance colleagues and escalate material discrepancies or risks to the Finance and Administration Director.
- Work closely with the Senior Budget Officer, Senior Regional Finance Manager, and other finance colleagues to ensure consistent and high-quality budgeting and reporting outputs and preparation.
- Coordinate with programme, campaign, project, People, Operations, Grants, and country office teams, as needed, to validate data and obtain accurate supporting information for reporting purposes.
- Support management by providing reliable financial information and analysis for internal decision-making and review processes.
- Support country finance teams in the absence of key positions as required.
- Support the preparation of financial information and supporting schedules for donor reporting, audit requests, and other external review processes, as assigned.
- Help ensure that externally reported financial data is supported by complete and validated internal records.
- Ensure review, validation, and reporting tasks are completed within agreed timelines to support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cycles.
- Maintain up-to-date reporting schedules, validation trackers, and supporting files for timely follow-up and submission.
- Ensure financial reports and supporting schedules are accurate, consistent, properly coded, and supported by reliable source data.
- Apply careful review and validation to reduce reporting errors, improve data integrity, and strengthen audit readiness.
- Promote clear, practical, and well-structured reporting outputs that support both internal management needs and external compliance requirements.
Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or related field
- At least 5-7 years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, or management reporting.
- Experience in reviewing financial data, validating reports, and ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
- Experience working in an international NGO, multi-country environment, or similarly complex organisation is highly desirable.
- Good practical experience in financial reporting, budget monitoring, reconciliations, and data analysis.
- Strong spreadsheet skills and experience working with financial templates, trackers, and reporting files.
- Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with both finance and non-finance colleagues.
- Training in financial reporting, budgeting, accounting, donor compliance, or finance systems/ERP tools is an advantage.
