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Position title: Project Finance Officer, WWF-Laos

Reports to: Plastics Project Manager, WWF-Laos

Location: Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR

The Finance Officer provides support to the Project in all financial requirements of the project to ensure transparency, accuracy and compliance with WWF Laos and WWF network financial systems, policies, and procedures as well as local legal requirements.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate data entry in Oracle and GMS, including project coding and financial uploads following steps and timelines as guided by the regional finance team as well as line manager.
• Assist in the development, monitoring, review and update of project finance and accounting activity work plans.
• Provide technical guidance, capacity building, coaching to project staff, project partners, and Government counterparts on all aspects of finance to ensure compliance with finance policies and procedures, and legal requirements of WWF, GEF and FFEM.
• Support the project team to ensure and manage third party contracts following the organisations and legal requirements, procedures on contracts.
• Support the management of contracts and keep line manager informed of the closing date and follow up with extensions.
• Reconcile trial balances and ledgers; identify and correct discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for project teams and management.
• Ensure staffs submit time sheets and maintain the monitoring sheets of the project up to date (e.g. prepayments, outgoing contracts).
• Record daily transactions, prepare the interco AR-AP invoice and billings and prepare calls for funds.
• Prepare bank transfer and ensure timely processing of payments in line with WWF-Laos policies.
• Support the project team members on annual budget preparation including project staff cost allocation.
• Creating task code in the Grant Management System (GMS).
• Support Project Finance Manager (PFM) in conducting due diligence/ Bridger insight (Compliance gap analysis).
• Assist PFM with internal control spot checks and expenditure cross-checks.
• Lead the project financial audit.
• Monitor outstanding advances and follow up for clearance.
• Ensure proper filling of all original finance related documents at field office and regularly upload them into the SharePoint.
• All others in fulfilling the departmental functions especially in peak reporting seasons and tight deadlines.
• Assisting with ad hoc tasks as assigned by line manager/supervisor

Requirements Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting, Business Management, Business Administration, or in relevant fields.
• 3 years of working experience in finance and accounting administration, particularly in budgeting, with international NGOs is desirable.
• Proficiency in accounting software (Oracle) preferred.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Thorough understanding of local finance and accounting systems, laws, and regulations.
• Basic knowledge of international finance and accounting standards.
• Advanced or excellent proficiency in MS Excel functions.
• Good understanding of finance and accounting practices in INGOs in Laos
• Demonstrate good command in English both written and verbal communication.

Working Relationships:

Internal  

• WWF-Laos/Asia Pacific: Work closely with finance and accounting team of WWF-Laos and Project Managers. Interact with finance and accounting teams of country and regional. Engage with and support project staff.
• WWF Network: Work with and provide support to WWF International auditors for related issues when required.

External   

• Interact regularly with government and co-executing partners, banks, tax agents, external auditors, consultants, suppliers.

WWF’s Values and Behaviors:

• Adhere to WWF’s values: Courage, Respect, Collaboration and Integrity.
• Demonstrates WWF core value in action of working:
  • We demonstrate courage through our actions, we work for change where it’s needed, and we inspire people and institutions to tackle the greatest threats to nature and the future of the planet, which is our home.
  • We live the principles we call on others to meet. We act with integrity, accountability, and transparency, and we rely on facts and science to guide us and to ensure that we learn and evolve.
  • We honor the voices and knowledge of people and communities that we serve, and we work to secure their rights to a sustainable future.
  • We deliver impact at the scale of the challenges we face through the power
    of collective action and innovation.

Contract Duration: WWF-Laos can offer you 1-year initial with possible extension with industry leading benefit and salary package and ample opportunity for professional development. For more information on our work in Laos, please visit: http://www.wwf.org.la.

How to Apply:

Please complete the application form by clicking this link: https://forms.office.com/e/V9kMKxHQLT Ensure you answer all questions in the system until you click on the submit button.

Submit your CV and Cover letter in English in PDF format to e-mail: jobs.laos@wwf.org.la and mention the position you apply.

Suggest to name the file of your CV and Cover letter with example below.

(example: Project Finance Officer, WWF-Laos_CV_Khamkeo Santiphab, Project Finance Officer, WWF-Laos_Cover letter Khamkeo Santiphab

 Deadline for applications: 16 January 2026. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

WWF does not charge or accept a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. WWF is committed to a fair, respectful, and inclusive work environment where every individual has equal opportunity to apply. Please indicate if you require accommodation for the application or interview process to jobs.laos@wwf.org.la