Financial and HR Officer (m/f/d)

FOUR PAWS is the global animal welfare organization for animals under direct human influence, which reveals suffering, rescues animals in need and protects them. Find out more about our sustainable campaigns and projects on www.four-paws.org.

Would you like to contribute to something meaningful and work with us along our mission? This is your chance. We are looking for dedicated people to enrich our team.

The Digital Communications Coordinator will support the Head of Communication (HoC) and the communications team in the US with digital outreach activities. While managed by Head of Communications, this position will often work with the digital and fundraising teams, within the US and abroad, to create, refine and implement our national digital strategy in alignment with our goals.

Your contribution will be

Financial and Administrative Support: 

• Recording financial transactions and supporting accounting processes, in relation to the accountant and the international team
• Ensuring the monthly banking and reconciliations 
• Uploading and verifying the weekly payments
• Supporting the preparation of the accounting statements and account closures, financial statements and their consolidation, tax returns and reconciliations 
• Supporting the preparation of financial reports for the Director, the Board and the General Meeting
• Ensuring alignment with the French accounting regulation
• Supporting GDPR compliance
• Ensuring general administrative tasks and coordination with service providers

Human Resources Administration: 

• Ensuring payroll preparation and HR administrative tasks (contracts, leave tracking, declarations…), with the support of the payroll manager 
• Support colleagues with health and safety requirements
• Providing advice on issues related to the French labour law
• Maintaining personnel files and answering all HR-related requests 
• Ensuring the association's compliance with the French labour law

Your profile ideally illustrates

• Training or professional experience in Finance, ideally for non-profits  
• Relevant professional experience in administrative and operational management 
• Knowledge of HR and French Labour Law 
• Proficient in French in speaking, reading and writing, and an advanced level of English  
• Excellent written and oral expression, impeccable spelling 
• Strong organisational skills, rigour and multi-skilling  
• A people‑centred and supportive approach to HR practices 
• Good interpersonal skills 
• Proficient with MS-365 cloud-based package: Word/PowerPoint/Excel 
• Passion for animal welfare and FOUR PAWS’ vision and mission

Our offer includes

• The opportunity to truly contribute to global animal welfare 
• An animal-friendly workplace with a dynamic and pleasant working environment 
• Partial remote working 
• Creative freedom and scheduled time for individual learning goals 
• Initiatives to promote good health at work 
• Gross salary of 41,810 EUR per year (part-time base, 28h/week, consisting of 12 payments) 

We reveal, rescue and protect unique animals from many different species through systems change and by creating species-appropriate environments at our sanctuaries!

We celebrate our colleagues' differences and strive to create an inclusive environment because we believe that only by working together, we can advance animal welfare worldwide. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we strongly encourage candidates from all diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals with diverse lived experiences, racial identities, national origins, religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and disability statuses to apply. We welcome everyone who wants to support our mission. Please contact recruiting.france@four-paws.org if you require assistance applying to this position.

All interested individuals are invited to submit their applications for the position. Please note that in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, having a valid work permit for the respective country or being eligible to obtain one is a requirement for this position prior to commencing employment.

Join our passionate team to make a difference for animals. Apply with your CV in French today via: