How You Drive Impact
As an Accounting Associate, you play a critical role in ensuring accurate financial data is organized and available for decision-making, compliance, and operational efficiency. In a fast-growing solar energy financing business, financial clarity is key to scaling impact across Southeast Asia
Your contribution helps us build a financially robust and scalable business, accelerating the transition to clean energy across the region.
Strategic Objectives
Objective 1: Ensure Accurate & Timely Financial Reporting
- Ensure timely completion of bank, AR, and AP reconciliations, maintain accurate financial records to support decision-making and audits, and prepare monthly financial reports in line with internal deadlines
Objective 2: Strengthen Tax Compliance & Regulatory Adherence
- Ensure timely completion of bank, AR, and AP reconciliations, maintain accurate financial records to support decision-making and audits, and prepare monthly financial reports in line with internal deadlines
Objective 3: Optimize Invoicing & Cash Flow Management
- Ensure accurate and timely customer invoicing to reduce overdue payments, regularly track and follow up on outstanding payments to improve AR collection, and process vendor payments within agreed terms to maintain strong supplier relationships
Objective 4: Improve Coordination & Oversight of External Bookkeepers
- Regularly review bookkeepers’ work for accuracy and compliance, provide constructive feedback to improve data consistency, and work on reducing errors through better coordination
Objective 5: Enhance Internal Processes & Operational Efficiency
- Identify and implement process improvements to streamline accounting operations, reduce manual reconciliation time through automation or workflow enhancements, and maintain well-organized financial documentation for audits or internal reviews
Key skills to drive impact
To excel as an Accounting Associate in our fast-paced, international solar energy financing business, you will need a blend of technical expertise and strong communication skills. The key skills for success in this role include:
- Financial Accuracy & Attention to Detail – Organizing and reviewing financial data to ensure reports are precise and reliable.
- Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable Management – Experience reconciling invoices, contracts, payments, and collections to maintain accurate financial records. Checking, saving all required documentation and processing vendor payments
- Proactive Problem-Solving – Identifying discrepancies, troubleshooting issues, and suggesting process improvements.
- Clear Communication & Coordination – Collaborating effectively with external bookkeepers, auditors, and internal teams to streamline accounting operations.
- Ability to Review & Validate External Work – Ensuring accuracy in bookkeeping by reviewing entries and providing structured feedback to external accountants.
By applying these skills, you will help drive financial clarity and operational efficiency, enabling the business to scale its clean energy impact across Southeast Asia.
Why us?
- Work for the planet: help make a difference as we pioneer the energy transition in emerging markets
- Flexible working hours – we trust you to know how you work best
- Home office friendly – we don't have mandatory office days, but we do want to ensure we also spend quality time together to collaborate. In practice this means around 2 days a week in the office.
- 30 days remote work
- 35 paid leave days per year
- 1.500 Euro annual professional development budget for all full time staff
- Extra in- and outpatient health insurance package for you and your family
- Office in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, District 1
- Close collaboration with the headquarters in Germany (Berlin)
- An open, diverse, and respectful company culture with a group of kind, international co-workers based in Berlin (Germany), Accra (Ghana), Nairobi (Kenya), San Jose (Costa Rica), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Santiago (Chile) and Manila (Philippines)
We are looking forward to hearing from candidates of all genders, nationalities, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Our commitment extends beyond mere representation—we firmly believe that diversity fuels innovation, fosters awareness, and enriches our workplace culture. Flexibility stands as a cornerstone of our company culture, and we've embraced a hybrid work environment to ensure that all our ecolleagues feel fully included. Join us as we lead the global energy revolution together.
About us
Every day at ecoligo we work to fight the climate crisis, bringing solar energy to businesses in countries like Ghana, Kenya, Vietnam, Philippines, Chile, Panama and Costa Rica amongst others through the ecoligo Impact-Investing platform. We own and manage each energy project allowing us to deliver both environmental and economic returns. Our Impact-Investors earn a solid financial return, and our solar clients get an energy provider that is fairer, more affordable and more efficient. So far, ecoligo projects have prevented—or will prevent—over 1,785,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere. And we are just getting started!
