Join a global conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and wild places. As Assistant Finance Manager, you will help ensure financial integrity, provide strategic financial insights, and support program teams delivering impactful conservation work.
Job Description
WCS Thailand is seeking an experienced Assistant Finance Manager to support financial oversight, reporting, and analysis for its conservation programs. This role will help ensure strong financial management while supporting strategic program delivery across the country.
Position: Assistant Finance Manager
Reports to: Finance and Administration Manager
Position Managed: Senior Accountant and Senior Finance and Accounting Officer
Location: WCS Thailand Program, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Country Program/Sector: Global Conservation Program – Greater Mekong
Position Type: Full-time
Scope/Capacity: Country
Coordinates with: Country Directors, Country Program Managers, Global Finance office, Country Program staff, Regional/HQ offices and staffs
Organization Background:
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a US non-profit, tax-exempt, private organization established in 1895 and based in New York, that saves wildlife and wild places by understanding critical issues, crafting science-based solutions, and taking conservation actions that benefit nature and humanity. With more than a century of experience, long-term commitments in dozens of landscapes, presence in more than 60 nations, and experience helping to establish over 150 protected areas across the globe, WCS has amassed the biological knowledge, cultural understanding and partnerships to ensure that vibrant, wild places and wildlife thrive alongside local communities.
WCS Thailand Program has been established since 1997, we are working closely with the Thai government and in cooperated with several academic institutes as well as local and international private organizations to achieve its mission to strengthen the science-based conservation principle, in order to preserve the intact wildlife and wild place in Thailand.
Job Purpose:
The Assistant Finance Manager provides technical oversight and analytical leadership for the financial and accounting operations of the Thailand program. Reporting directly to the Finance Manager, s/he is responsible for ensuring the integrity of financial data by supervising senior accounting staff and performing high-level reviews of cost allocations, reconciliations, and monthly closing processes.
The Assistant Finance Manager will also provide critical financial analysis, including the presentation of Budget vs. Actual (BvA) reports to landscape program teams and the estimation of spending for foreign currency grants to support strategic decision-making. S/he serves as a key liaison between the country program and Regional/HQ offices, ensuring all financial activities and donor reporting align with global WCS standards and compliance requirements.
Major Responsibilities:
1. Accounting Management & Operations
- Asist the Finance Manager in ensuring the smooth execution of day-to-day accounting and financial activities for the Thailand program.
- Ensure all financial transactions are accurately updated, documented, and recorded.
- Oversight: Review and check all cost allocation methodologies prepared by the Senior Accountant.
- Oversight: Review monthly closing and year-end period reports prepared by the Senior Accountant.
- Review monthly salary and benefits calculations for all local contracts.
- Lead the monthly and fiscal year-end reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
- Lead branch cash request preparation for review and submission.
2. Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Analyze and present monthly BvA reports to program teams in each landscape.
- Review monthly internal financial reports (Budget vs. Actual).
- Prepare and submit accounting reports on all country project expenditures to WCS New York according to established procedures and deadlines.
- Prepare donor financial reports and quarterly lease agreement reports.
3. Audit, Compliance & Policy
- Support the team and lead the preparation for internal and/or external audits.
- Assist the Finance Manager in maintaining and improving finance policies and procedures.
- Communicate with regional and HQ personnel on assigned finance and accounting matters.
4. Leadership & Capacity Building
- Supervise the Senior Accountant and the Senior Finance and Accounting Officer.
- Lead and provide technical training to the finance team as required.
- Coordinate and request information from colleagues across the organization to facilitate finance functions.
Minimum Requirements and Job Skills:
Education
Bachelor’s Degree required in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or other relevant fields.
Experience and Qualifications:
- 4-6 years of relevant experience. years of progressive work experience in finance and accounting, including experience in a senior or supervisory capacity. Experience working in inter-governmental, international organisation and/or private sector, desirable but not a mandatory requirement.
- Solid knowledge of finance and accounting; Advanced MS Excel skills and experience with major financial software (SAP or equivalent).
- Excellent planning, analytical, and critical thinking skills with a problem-solving attitude.
- Excellent English language skills (written and oral) with the ability to communicate complex financial data to various stakeholders.
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to mentor staff and work effectively under pressure.
- High personal integrity, multi-tasking abilities, and a flexible approach to work.
- Professional organization skills with a problem-solving attitude
- Interested in conservation works with international conservation NGO.
How to apply:
Interested candidates, who meet the above qualifications, should apply by sending an motivation letter and CV through wcsthailand@wcs.org by 22:00 UTC+7 April 16, 2026
Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
WCS is an equal opportunity employer, and the organization complies with all employment and labor laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination in hiring and ensures that candidates from all backgrounds are fairly and consistently considered during the recruitment process. We are dedicated to hiring and engaging a diverse workforce. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment and look for future team members who share that same value. The organization provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified candidates. The organization does not discriminate for employment based on gender, race/ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, caste, genetic information or any other covered status or characteristic protected by laws and regulations/and similar categories.
It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment based upon a person’s membership in one of these protected categories in areas such as recruitment, selection, job assignment, supervision, training, promotions, job grading, transfers, termination, compensation, benefits, educational opportunities, WCS sponsored recreational activities and facilities.
The organization complies with the spirit and intent of relevant local laws and WCS’s employment policies.