Finance Associate (6-month fixed term contract)
Closing Date: 25th August 2025
Location: Geneva, Switzerland (Hybrid Working)

Gold Standard is currently seeking a Finance Associate to join our growing team. This role reports to the Senior Finance Manager and is primarily responsible for supporting the bookkeeping and accounting functions at Gold Standard. The position is available on a full-time basis and entails a fixed-term consultancy contract of 6 months.

We are looking for someone detail-oriented, reliable, and motivated to help strengthen our financial operations during a critical period of growth and transition.

We will also consider cross border applicants from France who can commit to working in the office 3 to 5 days a week.
We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the correct right to work documents will be considered.

*Please note we reserve the right to close this role early*

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:

• Daily Bank Record Keeping: Record incoming and outgoing payments on a daily basis in the accounting software.
• Customer Invoices: Assist in preparing and verifying invoices issued to clients, ensuring accuracy and compliance with Swiss VAT requirements.
• Bill Verification and Entry: Verify the accuracy of bills, ensuring they are approved and supported by the necessary documents. Enter verified bills into the accounting software.
• Payments Preparation: Prepare and process payments to suppliers, ensuring correct banking details and timely execution.
• Expense Report Processing: Review employee expense claims for accuracy and compliance with internal policies and support timely reimbursements.
• Bookkeeping and VAT Compliance: Maintain accurate bookkeeping records and support correct application of Swiss VAT.
• Monthly Reconciliation: Support reconciliation of bank, receivable, and payable accounts to ensure data integrity.
• Year-End Closing and Audit Support: Assist in compiling documentation and schedules required for the year-end closing and audit process.
• ERP Transition: Contribute to the team’s efforts to implement and test a new accounting system.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• CFC in accounting or finance or a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration
• 1-2 years of experience in a similar position in a fast moving office environment
• Knowledge of Swiss accounting and VAT rules is desirable
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and to deadlines
• Enthusiasm for making efficiency improvements to existing processes
• Solid skills in the use of MS Office programs and general aptitude for the use of IT systems
• Fluency in written and spoken English and French
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for the environment or sustainable development a plus

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 favour 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.