Finance Manager (maternity cover – 10mths)

Closing Date: 3rd August 2025

Location: Geneva, Switzerland (Hybrid)

Gold Standard Foundation are recruiting a Finance Manager to cover maternity leave for 10 months, starting in September. Reporting into the Senior Finance Manger you will oversee daily bookkeeping activities, managing payroll processes and ensuring accurate financial reporting.

This is a pivotal role in the organization which involves optimising financial systems, training staff on financial policies and interacting with external authorities to support Gold Standard’s financial health and growth

WHO WE ARE

Gold Standard is a not-for-profit organization that helps companies understand the role they should play in creating a net-zero, sustainable nature future and provides tangible ways for them to contribute. This includes investments in their value chains, carbon credits, and other mechanisms for high-integrity climate action that delivers real impact for people and nature.

The Gold Standard Foundation was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also delivered sustainable development benefits. Today, our standard, ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, allows climate and development initiatives within carbon markets, corporate supply chains, and sustainable finance to manage, measure and maximise their impacts toward the Net Zero ambition of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Overseeing daily bookkeeping activities and processing outgoing/incoming payments and journal entries accordingly.
• Ensuring accuracy of financial accounts and a smooth monthly closing cycle.
• Responsible for regional and/or country specific financial reporting (in anticipation of future regional offices).
• Maintaining and optimising the organisation’s Chart of Accounts.
• Responsibility for invoicing support in Xero.
• Preparing quarterly VAT returns for Geneva tax authorities by reconciling VAT GL accounts.
• Preparing quarterly reconciliation for the project marketplace transactions and related transactions to project owners.
• In charge of year-end closing and preparations for the annual audit.
• Regular training of all staff and direct reports on finance-related policies.
• Interacting with tax authorities, insurance companies and federal foundation supervisory authority

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in business, Finance or Accounting
• Holders of Swiss Federal Diploma in Specialist in Finance and Accounting will be given priority
• At least 7+ years of experience in a similar position in a fast-moving office environment.
• Experience with Swiss GAAP a plus.
• Desire to probe further into data.
• Proven record of efficiency improvements to existing processes.
• Outstanding and demonstrated stakeholder management skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships cross- functionally.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and enthusiasm for the environment.
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal – along with fluency in written and spoken English, French is a plus.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER:

• All Employees are entitled to 30 days of holiday, pro-rated for part-time Employees.
• A mission-driven organisation working at the leading edge of climate and sustainability.
• Rewarding work in a dynamic non-profit environment.
• A collaborative workplace within a multicultural team.
• An ambitious, agile and flexible environment.
• We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the correct right to work documents will be considered.

OUR VALUES

Pioneering - We focus on those that have the most promise to contribute to our vision and mission, bringing them to market with the requisite planning and resources.

Rigorous - We build on our reputation for quality and rigor with more robust measurement of outcomes, stronger safeguards and greater impact across the Sustainable Development Goals. Our objective is to make rigor simpler and more achievable at scale.

Collaborative - We work with key partners who share our goals and complement our strengths. Our partnership strategy aims to move beyond working opportunistically as a delivery partner in favor of collaborating in long-term strategic synergy.

Transparent - We were established to bring confidence, trust, and accountability to carbon markets. We will continue to take strides to improve transparency in our own processes, in the broader market and in non-market mechanisms

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Gold Standard provides equal opportunity for all job applicants and employees and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination. We are dedicated to an inclusive culture, and we strive to create a workplace where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together.