Finance & Administration, Senior Associate

The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities. To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.

Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals. Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.

As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health. This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.

At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods. The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance. This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.

**Why**

To protect nature and improve lives it’s becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways. For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.

**How**

Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.

**The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization. With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability and any other protected group.**

**Position summary**:
The Finance Administration, Senior Associate is a key member of the Regions and Support units (Finance Administration and IT) teams which includes Global Internal Compliance, Human Resources, Finance, IT, and Accounting. The Finance Administration, Senior Associate handles the day-to-day business administration and human resources support for the Peru team. You will perform HR, Global Internal Compliance, Finance, IT and Accounting activities for Peru; coordinate country facilities and perform/submit all national registration requirements; and provide support and coordination with the Country Lead and regional functional counterparts to ensure the excellence in our financial, administrative, HR and other back-office functions in Peru.

**Responsibilities**:

- Finance Accounting:_
- Handle payroll (in coordination with the outsourcing company if is necessary);
- Process payments, review PRF and TER, ensure all documentation is according to the local laws.
- Perform bookkeeping (as necessary) and preparation of monthly Office Accounting Report in coordination with the Regional Accounting lead ensuring timely monthly close information is provided to Regional Lead, local staff training on timecards expenses, handle locally issued corporate cards, facilitate local banking relationship, audit coordination, compliance with accounting PPs, coordinate with field offices/other RMs as needed, and preparation/submission of all local filings (tax and others);
- Provide financial management support (budgeting, financial reporting) as requested for locally run programmatic activities.
- Administration:_
- Handle national facilities including office budget, office space, home-based offices, vendors, lease, purchasing, country information, coordinate national safety security planning, and serve as IT point-of-contact in country in coordination with the Country Lead and Regional lead(s).
- Facilitate/deliver training to local staff on key topics.
- Coordinate logistics for country visits by other Rainforest Alliance staff.
- Organize periodic team-building activities for the country office, and support logistics for events and workshops.
- Other tasks as assigned.

***_Global Internal Compliance:_
- Work closely with the Regional GIC lead and in coordination with the legal team as needed to ensure branch/subsidiaries meets all compliance requirements and ensure procurement and national contracts meets all Rainforest Alliance and donor requirements.

***_Human Resources:_
- Provide HR support in employment relations issues; provide guidance to management on local employment law, to include terminations, disciplinary and grievance, and other statutory employment requirements; lead all aspects of performance managem