Title: Accountant cum Admin. Officer
Company Name: Action for Social Development (ASD)
Vacancy: 01
Job Location: Sunamganj
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Minimum Bachelors in Commerce (B. Com)
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD) is inviting application from committed & progressive development worker for the position of Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and building infrastructure for Disaster Vulnerable Communities in Bangladesh (STEP & BuildIn) Project, funded by Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (BMZ/G), Germany.
∎ Role of this Position: To ensure good governance of the financial and material resources by maintaining appropriate documents, to ensure accountabilities by following the financial policy and guidelines and provide administrative and logistic support to the staff team members in the program areas for effective implementing program activities to achieve project goal and objectives.
∎ Project Summary: Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and building infrastructure for Disaster Vulnerable Communities in Bangladesh (STEP & BuildIn) Project is aiming to improve the life and livelihood status of the vulnerable people by focusing on (i) Strengthening knowledge, response and recovery capacity of different stakeholders (ii) Reducing the disaster risk through improving physical structure and providing improve adaptive services to the community and (iii) Reducing the vulnerability of the community people through providing improved and alternative livelihoods.
∎ Job Location: Derai Upazila, Sunamgong District
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Ensuring proper utilization of financial and material resources of the project, by maintaining appropriate and relevant records of all transactions in a systematic manner and ensure safe custody of these to ensure accountability.
∎ Allocating financial resources on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis on the program schedules developed by the Area Office planning team members.
∎ Assisting Project Manager and the team members in formulating cash flow and out flow budgets.
∎ Monitoring and controlling allocating budgets for implementing the planned programs and related activities.
∎ Preparing and submitting monthly and quarterly financial progress and with linkage with program activities being implemented.
∎ Preparing fund requisition and submission to Head Office for cash flow to the Upazila Office as approved by the respective authority.
∎ Receiving fund from the Head Office and ensuring these are deposited to the Upazila Office Bank Account.
∎ Withdrawing and disbursing funds on the basis of approved budget and implementing guidelines.
∎ Monitoring advances and payments according to the approved budgets.
∎ Preparing cost analysis of the expenses incurred and allocated budget and preparing appropriate explanations for any deviations.
∎ Assisting to run internal and external audit to assess accountability and good governance of financial and material resources allocated and utilized.
∎ Managing project related procurement at Upazila Office level and management of day-to-day expenditure for implementing the field level project activities.
∎ Maintaining regular books of accounts, reconciling accounts, preparing Trial Balance, preparing of vouchers and also coordinating audit processes.
∎ Preparing deed of agreement for office and other contracts and arranging payments of office rent, utility bills and vendors' bills.
∎ Preparing the salary sheet of the project staff and payments of all bills in time as per organizational policy.
∎ Overall administrative work.
∎ Vehicle management.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Position requires at least five years of experience in similar type of position.
∎ Should have capacity in motivational and communication skill at local level.
∎ Working experience on financial management with any development organization, appropriate computer proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point. Ability to operate Accounting Software.
∎ Good interpersonal and team working skills.
∎ Ability to prepare Financial Reports and linking with programs implemented.
∎ Ability to prepare document report in both English and Bangla.
∎ Cultural sensitivity and ability to respect and work well with people from different backgrounds and disciplines.
∎ Can operate computer/Tab. Driving motorcycle.
∎ Willingness to stay and operate project at remote area.
∎ Physically and mentally sound with good health, smart, energetic, ability to work in all situation and environment. Swimming skill is essential for working in the haor areas.
∎ Age limit: Age limit can be relaxed for most deserving candidate
Salary: Tk. 30000 - 35000 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ TA, festival bonus and other benefits as per organization policy.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 25 Jan 2022
Company Information:
∎ 16 Jan 2022
∎ Action for Social Development (ASD)
∎ Business : Action for Social Development (ASD) is a non-government, non-profit and non-partisan development organization duly registered with Department of Social Service and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. ASD was established in 1988 by a group of NGO professionals and social workers with the objective to address the basic problems of the slum dwellers of Dhaka City to ensure their positive and due role in the socio-economic development of the country. Gradually ASD extended its development interventions in other cities and remote rural areas with broader objectives.
Category: NGO/Development
Source: bdjobs.com