Financial Project Controller (f/m/d) - Remote, Vienna

We improve health systems, enable education for all, and amplify the voices of people with disabilities in the workplace and beyond. In short: we break down unjust barriers to unlock the potential in all of us! You are an essential part of the International Finance Team based in Vienna and work with colleagues globally. Your primarily focus is to ensure high quality financial planning and monitoring. And further automatize our financial processes and systems. A crucial role to ensure Light for the World remains in a healthy financial position and takes appropriate steering measures.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning and Reporting:

• Develop comprehensive project budgets, incorporating inputs from multiple stakeholders and accounting for potential risks and contingencies.
• Develop Monthly, Quarterly, Biannually, and Yearly Financial Reports.
• Analyze financial information to assess project performance and budget utilization.

Grant Management:

• Coordinate, compile, draft, and edit high-quality financial reporting.
• Ensuring adherence to donor regulations and requirements throughout the project lifecycle, including financial management, procurement, and reporting.
• Maintaining regular communication with donor, partners, program team and other stakeholders to provide updates on project progress and address concerns.

Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing:

• Providing training and technical assistance to project staff and partners to strengthen their skills in grant management, financial reporting, and compliance.
• Stay informed of emerging trends, best practices, and regulatory changes in grant funding and financial management and ensure the relevant stakeholders are informed as well.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in grant management processes and financial controls.

Your Profile

• Proficient in working with financial figures, with a basic understanding of accounting procedures.
• Advanced Excel skills and a keen interest in working with data integration and linking different systems are highly preferred skills for this role.
• Proven ability to maintain effective working relationships in diverse, multicultural environments.
• Eagerness to enhance processes and databases, with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Excellent English. French skills are preferable. Hands-on approach, proactive personality and strong motivation.

We offer

• You join a highly motivated team, appreciating your experience and eager to jointly shape Light for the Worlds monitoring and steering mechanisms.
• We are offering an outstanding opportunity to bring about change through an international development organization with strong expertise and a growing profile.
• We are committed to giving our colleagues space to explore new directions, test new ideas and to excel as individuals through and with their team.
• We emphasize a good work-life-balance, have flexible working hours and Home-Office opportunity.
• We are a professional team that strives towards continuous development.
• We believe in participatory leadership and expect you to contribute your expertise and ideas.
• We believe that learning from mistakes is an important way of developing and put emphasis on our culture of learning.