Finance Associate at Ashoka in Jakarta, Java, Indonesia

About Ashoka:

Ashoka is on an audacious mission – to create a world where everyone is a changemaker, i.e. a world where everyone has the agency and skills to make a positive change in their families or communities. It is only in such a world where the solutions will outrun our social problems. With its global network of over http://3.500 leading social entrepreneurs (Ashoka Fellows), 10,000 youth ventures, 180+ changemaker schools, and 30+ changemaker campuses – as well as a community of 20,000+ innovators on Changemakers.com – Ashoka works with strategic partners to empower people with the skills to create solutions for the good of all in a world of constant change.

Please submit your application before January 3rd, 2026.

What You'll Do:

• 40% Globalizer Team

• Support the financial operations including the following responsibilities:

• Prepare partnership reports on a quarterly, semi-annual, and annual basis

• Support monthly finance review preparations and monthly budget vs. actual reviews

• Support budget planning, financial reporting, and other global finance requirements

• Conduct monthly reconciliations with local offices

• Manag vendor payments and reimbursements

• Follow up on GSS allocations and reclassifications

• Support cash requests and FTA processes

• Prepare job requisitions and MOUs

• 40% ASPIRe Team

• The tasks will be the same as those listed for the Globalizer team.

• Additionally, the teammate will support the monthly and annual bookkeeping of Ashoka Indonesia on NetSuite regarding ASPIRe allocations.

• 20% of your time will be dedicated to the Ashoka Indonesia team-building activities, team meetings and non-ASPIRe NetSuite support.

What You Bring:

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Accounting experience and practical skill (1-3+ years).
• Time management and multitasking skills.
• Able to work on own initiative, proactively and independently, and under minimal supervision.
• Strong team member.
• Communication skills with different audiences.
• Proficient in Excel and Word.
• IT-savvy is a must.
• Familiar with Salesforce, NetSuite, and others.

Core Criteria

• Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
• Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellectual and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
• Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
• Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
• Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.

About Ashoka:

Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.

Our current work is centered around the "Everyone a Changemaker" (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.