We Effect is now recruiting a financial controller. This position is part of the Global Finance & compliance team. The employment is a permanent position with a six months’ probation period. Start date as soon as possible. 

We Effect is a development organisation founded by the Swedish cooperative movement in 1958 to support the development of democratic organisations and societies. In our international development cooperation programmes, we are applying a human rights-based approach supporting people living in poverty to secure their rights.

We Effect works in around 19 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa through our offices in partnership with local CSO’s, farmer organisations, cooperative federations and other democratic organisations. 

Learn more about us at: weeffect.se, weeffect.org and latin.weeffect.org.

Main responsibilities 

Grant financial management process: Support and quality assurance to country offices in grant applications and budgets. Support and quality assurance of financial reporting to donors, grant utilisation follow up, audit follow up of grants.

Annual audit process: Quality assurance of letters of engagement, support and quality assurance of audits for the reporting of country offices. Review of procurement documentation and decision when a new auditor is selected. Follow up of audit findings at country offices.

Compliance monitoring country offices and internal compliance spot-checks: Responsible for compliance monitoring of country offices and compliance spot-checks according to yearly decided plan. Follow up on findings from monitoring. 

Anti-corruption and incident management: Support to country offices in handling of incidents. Participate in incident follow ups. Conduct anti-corruption trainings in country offices and for partner organisations.

Risk management: Follow up of risk management at country offices.

Organisational forecast and budget: Support and quality assurance of country office forecast and budgets.

Procurement: support and quality assurance of Terms of reference (upon request), quality assurance of contracts.

Required qualifications

Education: A bachelor’s degree or equivalent diploma. 
Experience: 4-6 years of relevant experience.
Essential skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Strong organisational skill with the capability to oversee and manage various tasks, projects, and activities simultaneously.
• Strong time-management ability and to keep track of deadlines both internally and externally.
• High level of integrity and commitment to ethical financial practices.
• Collaborate effectively with team members across different locations. 
• Experience working in non-profit organisation and/or international environments. 
• Proficiency in financial/administrative software (cloud-based) and Microsoft 365.
• Ability to work with large data sets and maintain accuracy under tight deadlines.
• Implement process improvements and automation.
• Effective communication in English.

Merits

• Knowledge and experience of working in Xledger.
• Oral and written communication skills in Spanish or other languages where we have country offices.

What we can offer you

We will give you the opportunity to make a real difference – within our organisation and in our joint work for a sustainable planet free from poverty. We challenge the status quo and encourage innovation. Our values Transparency, Respect and Togetherness, guide us in our work and as colleagues forming our organisational culture.

We are an intercultural organisation where diversity and inclusion are our corner stones. We welcome you as you are, and value a wide range of perspectives, experiences and networks and we strive for a workplace where you can bring your whole self to work. It is our belief that an inclusive workplace without discrimination of any kind leads to more efficient relations and results with healthy, engaged, and growing co-workers. 

You will be based in Sweden, but your work is done together with colleagues in many different countries. Your manager is based in Zambia. We strive to have the best work environment and even if your main workplace for this position will be Stockholm, we offer flexible opportunities to mix working from office and home or elsewhere, which we believe will improve work-life balance in many ways. We apply goal-oriented working hours and offer 31 days of paid annual leave. 

Application

Apply by uploading your CV and cover letter to Impactpool no later than December 19, 2025. Your application documents should be in English.

Please note that the position requires that the candidate have permission to live and work in Sweden.

For more information

Hiring Manager: Mwaka Phiri, Head of Financial Controlling, mwaka.phiri@weeffect.org

Ewa Holmstedter, Deputy Secretary General and Global Manager Finance & Compliance, ewa.holmstedter@weeffect.org

Linnea Karlsson, Union representative, linnea.karlsson@weeffect.org

If you have any technical difficulties uploading the application, please contact Impactpool, service@impactpool.org.

Misconduct

We Effect wants to be alerted on suspected discrimination, corruption or other serious misconduct during the recruitment process. To make us aware, do not hesitate to use our Whistleblowing System.