• Location: Australia-wide
• Term: Permanent On-going
• Job Type: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
• Remuneration: SCHADS Level 5: $109,000 – $114,000 + 11% Super + 17.5% Annual Leave Loading
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are particularly encouraged to apply
• Reporting to: Financial Controller

Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is the leading environmental law practice in the Australia Pacific Region delivering legal solutions for peoples, nature and our climate. We have a big vision which is a world where nature thrives. We’ve got big ambition about the role we can play in delivering that vision and we’ve got an incredible team across the country working to achieve it.

We are dedicated to protecting our climate, communities and shared environment by providing access to justice, running ground-breaking litigation and leading law reform advocacy. Over our 30-year combined history we’ve developed a formidable track record of empowering communities and delivering effective protection of the environment through legal services.

As the region’s legal experts in our field, we aim to be a brave, unified, and focused team, committed to inclusion and excellence in all that we do. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace supporting a highly skilled, engaged, and effective team, where everyone can feel that they belong.

The opportunity

Responsible for the financial tracking and reporting of all grant funding to EDO. This role will coordinate and ensure the regular mapping, allocation and alignment of grant funding across EDO expenditure and service delivery. This role will work with the Philanthropy and other non-finance teams across the organisation on budgeting of existing and new grants, producing internal reporting as required.

This role will work closely with the Legal Process Lead to plan for and meet reporting deadlines, and to streamline and improve internal processes as required.

Candidate Profile

You are a CPA or CA qualified candidate with three or more years (a minimum of 5 years desirable) experience in financial reporting on grant funding as a standalone role or primary responsibility of a role or similar. You are looking for an opportunity to use your skillset and experience to support the work of the largest public interest environmental law centre in the region. You want to work at the intersect of climate justice, human rights, the rights of First Nations and the environment and want an opportunity to make an impact for peoples and nature.

Key selection criteria

Essential:

• Relevant educational qualifications at Bachelor’s degree level
• CPA or CA qualification
• 3+ years’ experience (5+ desirable) in financial reporting on grant funding, as a standalone role or primary responsibility of a role, or similar
• Experience applying Australian Accounting standards in contract assessment and revenue recognition (AASB15 and AASB1058), including audit preparation
• Impeccable attention to detail without sacrificing efficiency
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to a range of different audiences
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders, internally and externally
• Proven ability to work autonomously without supervision
• Ability to effectively and efficiently manage multiple workplans and priorities simultaneously
• High level Excel skills and proficiency in other Microsoft Office applications
• A team player with strong work ethic
• Proactive in approach to tasks and responsibilities to be carried out
• Proven experience using Sage Intacct or other accounting software packages
• Ability to manage and meet overlapping deadlines
• Experience working with and administering grants across geographically distributed teams and different focus areas
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills

Desirable:

• 5+ years’ experience in financial reporting on grant funding, as a standalone role or primary responsibility of a role, or similar
• Not for profit experience
• Experience in working with External Auditors

Personal qualities and cultural competency

• A champion of the EDO values
• Strong initiative and self-motivation
• Commitment to the protection of human rights and the environment
• A strong sense of ethics and understanding of professional obligations
• Demonstrated awareness of and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of First Nations and peoples from diverse cultures, backgrounds and orientations in both the delivery of our work and our internal culture
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative and team-based environment

Our Culture and Benefits

• We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected, and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or life stage
• The chance to be part of the largest environmental legal practice in the Australia-Pacific
• A very flexible and family-friendly workplace
• Option to work from home and the office
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, regardless of gender or carer status
• 15 days personal/carer’s leave
• 3 days paid cultural leave
• Extra leave over the Christmas period
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Ongoing professional development opportunities
• EDO proudly has a JEDI (Justice, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion) Committee and a Mental Health Ambassador Committee, and has developed a First Nations Program with the aid of indigenous-led consultancies
• Affinity groups for the following: Global Majority*, LGBTQIA+ & Disability Affinity Group

* Global Majority is a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called, to think of themselves as belonging to the majority on planet earth. It refers to people who are Black, African, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as “ethnic minorities”.

Our Values

• Commitment – We are committed to; a united organisation, to each other, to collaboration, to justice, to our communities and to creating a world where nature thrives.
• Diversity – We are respectful of and welcome diversity of staff, volunteers, offices, environmental regions, communities, stakeholders.
  
• Integrity – We work effectively, efficiently, strategically, professionally, and ethically; “justice is in our nature”.
• Vision – We lead change and environmental empowerment using innovation, creativity, and courage.

How to Apply

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If you have queries in regard to this advert, please feel free to contact [email protected] using the subject line: Grant Finance Lead - Flexible Location, Australia Wide enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Applications must include a CV and a letter that clearly addresses each of the selection criteria.

Please note: Your application may be considered for future roles at the EDO within the next 12 months without additional advertising.

Please notify us in your application if you would not like to be considered for similar roles beyond this recruitment.

If you have any accessibility needs for the recruitment or interviewing process, please let us know in your application or by emailing [email protected].

Other Information

All offers of employment may be subject to satisfactory background checks including a National Police Check, disclosure of previous or current disciplinary action, referee checks, proof of eligibility to work in Australia and qualification checks.