About Fòs Feminista

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces. And we strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity, and to access resources to strengthen their work.

Position Summary

The Accountant holds the responsibility for overseeing all processes and transactions related to the efficient execution of the payables function. The individual will ensure compliance with organization’s procurement policy and provides guidance to colleagues related to steps for purchases. The Accountant should have the ability to meet weekly transactional deadlines while managing conflicting priorities.

The Accountant will have a demonstrated commitment to and alignment with Fòs Feminista’s principles and values of social justice, equity, and non-discrimination, which are essential to our work advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice for women, girls, and gender-diverse people—particularly in the Global South.

Supervisory Relationship

The Accountant reports to the Associate Director, Grants and Accounting.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute accounts payable function from purchase orders to payment vouchers, wires and check disbursement including review of coding for accuracy and communication of coding changes.
• Ensure full understanding of procurement policy and help guide staff in any related questions.
• Apply policies and procedures to ensure appropriate internal controls are maintained related to procurement and accounts payables processing.
• Assist in the analysis of items noted in project level financials.
• Set up training sessions and update seminars throughout the year for staff to ensure appropriate knowledge to complete payment requests with all required steps and documentation.
• Month end responsibilities include reconciliation of A/P module to balance sheet account, open accounts payable analysis, assigned balance sheet reconciliations and comprehensive prepaid and accrual analysis.
• Manage the yearly 1099 process and ensure timely completion.
• Provide wire remittance notifications within 48 hours for Partner Organization payments and any other required vendor payments.
• Maintain a constant state of audit readiness including year-end audit preparation and completion of any audit and tax requests related to responsibilities.
• Provide exceptional customer service.
• Contribute to team effort by completing other requests as needed.

Minimum Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, broad knowledge of a relevant professional field.
• At least five (5) years related work experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Navision.
• Experience working with NGOs
• Demonstrated ability to execute detailed project plans based on conceptual, strategic goals.
• Possesses ability to meet and exceed quantitative performance metrics.
• Demonstrated experience anticipating roadblocks and assessing implications of specific deliverables.
• Professional working proficiency in Spanish (both written and spoken) is required and at least one of Fòs Feminista’s other core language (English, Portuguese, or French) highly preferred.
• Commitment to anti-racism, including a process of self-reflection and transformation around implicit bias.
• Solid understanding of and commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights through an intersectional feminist lens.

Safeguarding Commitments

Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that all employees respect and protect the health, rights, and wellbeing of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations with whom we work. We require all employees to share this commitment.

The successful candidate must:

Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding.
Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista’s International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Location: The location of this position is remote, and preference will be given to applicants based in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

Compensation: Fòs Feminista offers generous compensation consistent with competitive salaries and a benefits package that includes private health insurance, life insurance, retirement benefits, paid sick and vacation leave, holidays, and flexible working arrangements. The proposed salary for the LAC region is USD $28,644.30/annual. While salary is calculated in USD, payment may be made in local currency.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice and dismantling inequities from an intersectional feminist lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression or identify, health status, history of conflict with the law, migrant status, national origin, parental or pregnancy status, partnership status, political belief, poverty, race, religion, sexual identity of orientation, sex, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected category under federal, state, and local laws.

At Fòs Feminista we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a workforce that is diverse and inclusive of people who are from marginalized or excluded groups.

While we strongly encourage all current and new employees to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, there is no vaccine requirement for employment with Fòs Feminista. However, it is currently our policy that employees must show proof of full vaccination to engage in any work-related travel or to attend any work-related in-person gatherings. As appropriate, reasonable accommodations can be made, including, for example, arrangements for employees to participate remotely in any relevant gatherings.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Apply at: https://fosfeminista.bamboohr.com/careers/145