Senior management accountant - pacific

There’s something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

A place to make a difference: In this full-time max term (3 years) role, you’ll work as a part of our Pacific Regional team, ideally based in Fiji or one of our Pacific country offices (PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu or Tonga) to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Senior Management Accountant plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children.

Whether providing timely and accurate financial and management reporting for the Pacific country offices or overseeing processing, reviewing and reporting of income and expenditure, you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children in the Pacific and around the world. You will make a difference by:

• Lead all day-to-day management accounting operations for the Pacific Country Offices (COs), including accurate processing of financial transactions, perform month end close procedures, prepare, and analyse accurate monthly financial and management reports, including income statement and balance sheet.
• Prepare business performance reports for the Country Directors and Regional Leadership Team on a monthly basis, including progress against approved KPIs, insightful analysis and commentary on performance.
• Prepare reports and contribute to Pacific Regional team financial reporting; monthly and ad hoc commentary as required.
• Support budget and forecast processes for the COs.
• Work closely with Program Managers, Field Office leads and CO Senior Management Team with the development and ongoing tracking of budgets for proposals and tenders for new programs and create and drive ongoing reporting to aid measurement against Donor funding.
• Support CO Leadership and Program Managers with ongoing support of information quality and alignment to the Award Management System (AMS).

A place to feel valued: Your deep expertise in driving continuous improvement in finance processes and building capacity of our Country Office staff members to use financial systems is invaluable. This role requires:

• Excellent knowledge of cost accounting and reporting, including grant reporting
• Excellent knowledge of budgeting and forecasting
• Experience in financial risk analysis
• Experience in business performance analysis and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships across the organisation.

A place to belong: We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We’ve established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Committee).
• Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits. Does this sound like the place for you? We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below. As part of our strategic localisation initiatives, we strongly encourage Pacific nationals to apply for this role. Applications close 4pm Fiji time, Sunday 25th October 2026.

Position Description – Senior Management Accountant - Pacific

For more information about this position, please contact Deepak Singh on deepak.singh@savethechildren.org.au or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page. We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs. Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation. If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact people.culture@savethechildren.org.au for further support.