Job Description

Title: Accounts Manager

Company Name: A reputed National NGO

Vacancy: 1

Location: Dhaka

Minimum Salary: Negotiable

Experience:
∎ At least 7 years

Published: 31 Jan 2024

Education:
∎ Post-graduate degree in accounts or finance or relevant discipline.

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 7-years experiences in maintaining books and records and accounts of development projects, preferably donor-funded NGO projects.
∎ Having non-discriminatory and gender-sensitive perceptions along with safeguarding
∎ To protect children in connection
∎ Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
∎ Good communication, facilitation and motivational skills.
∎ Having problem-solving and prompt decision-making capacity.
∎ Ability to work under pressure.
∎ Having the non-discriminatory and gender-sensitive perception
∎ To protect children in connection and uphold safeguarding principles
∎ Understanding of local culture and dialects
∎ Excellent Computer literacy especially MS word, MS excel, browsing etc.
∎ Experiences:
∎ Skills and Additional Job Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Accounts Manager will be responsible for developing and implementing the financial plan aligning with the approved program workplan and Details Implementation Plan (DIP).
∎ Support the team in preparing costed DIP that will help the team in implementing the program intervention within the approved budget limit.
∎ Accounts Manager will need to prepare regular financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, to provide stakeholders with accurate and timely information on the project's financial performance.
∎ S/he will need to manage the project's budget, ensuring that expenses are kept within the allocated budget, and identify opportunities to reduce costs and increase revenue.
∎ S/he will need to maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records, including recording transactions, preparing invoices, and managing accounts payable and receivable.
∎ S/he will need to ensure that the project is compliant with all relevant tax regulations, including filing tax returns and making tax payments on time.
∎ S/he will need to analyse financial data and identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for improvement in the project's financial performance.
∎ S/he will need to identify potential financial risks and develop strategies to mitigate them, such as setting up financial controls and risk management plans.
∎ Ensuring timely receiving of fund and proper utilization in line with the project plan.
∎ Ensure compliance with project operational (finance) guideline, finance policy, HR and other organizational policies to perform the regular financial work.
∎ Conducting regular verification/checking of vouchers prepared by field staff for receive & payments, invoice, non-cash transactions with a view to maintain budgetary control.
∎ Regular checking of cash flows status in the field level and advise for any inconsistency found.
∎ Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual and multi-year budget in consultation and consensus of the program team.
∎ Prepare and compile all sorts of vouchers of all transactions with proper supporting documents.
∎ Perform and maintain banking related issues including Bank Reconciliation Report.
∎ Coordinate among the field offices to ensure compliance of Tax, VAT deduction at source and deposition to the treasury accordingly.
∎ Support sub-offices budget preparation and making payments /advance payments time to time based on approved budget.
∎ Coordinate Annual internal and external audit, reviews as well as internal monitoring.
∎ Extend support to Procurement Manager to complete procurement processes according to the rules and regulations.
∎ Ensure systematic cross /spot check and triangulation of financial data to ensure validity, reliability, timeliness and quality of all data.
∎ Assist and actively participate in project financial planning, assessments/ evaluation.
∎ Accompaniment support to project management and donors during field visits and sharing of financial monitoring findings in regular basis.
∎ Attending regular meetings/trainings/workshops as and when required by the project and management.
∎ Presentation of technical achievements regularly in the project events.
∎ Work closely with the Project Coordinator, Field Monitor Lead and other specialists along with PMU to achieve project results.
∎ Prepare and submit the periodic reports.
∎ Any other task as assigned by the management.
∎ Job Nature: Full-time
∎ Duration: Up to December 31, 2026, subject to the availability of fund and satisfactory performance.
∎ No. of Vacancies: 1Project Brief: The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has selected a CARE Bangladesh led consortium to implement the project titled ‘Nature Based Adaptation towards Prosperous and Adept Lives & Livelihoods in Bangladesh (NABAPALLAB/ নবপল্লব)’ in two Ecologically Critical Areas (ECA) – Sundarbans and Hakaluki Haor. The other consortium members are CNRS, CordAid, C3ER-BRAC University, Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK), Friendship, Humanity & Inclusion (HI), iDE, and Practical Action. It is a key component of the Bangladesh-UK Accord on Climate Change and will deliver the adaptation outcome of the FCDO’s flagship Bangladesh Climate and Environment Programme (BCEP). The programme will make a significant contribution in Bangladesh to progress against GoB’s policies and priorities e.g., National Adaptation Plan (NAP), Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), commitments to biodiversity conservation, ongoing 8th Five Year Plan, etc. And it will also contribute to UK’s commitment to International Climate Finance (ICF).
∎ The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, and Hakaluki Haor, a complex wetland system of the Meghna-Surma River basin, play a crucial role in protecting lives and livelihoods in the southwest coast and northeast Bangladesh respectively. With a population of over 4 million and a rich habitat with rare species, including tigers, the Sundarbans' inhabitants are threatened by climate changes due to rising sea levels and frequent cyclones. Over-extraction of forest resources by locals and industrial development in the nearby areas is currently threatening this World Heritage Site. Hakaluki Haor is one of the most extensive marsh wetlands in the country, inhabited by over 200,000 people and 558 animal and bird species and is a breeding ground for fisheries. Due to environmental sensitivity and high anthropogenic pressures such as overharvesting, overfishing, pollution and illegal logging, the Sundarbans mangrove and the Hakaluki Hoar wetland are at a vulnerable stage with climate change exacerbating the current situation.
∎ FCDO’s NABAPALLAB aims to engage biodiversity and natural resource-dependent communities to strengthen the climate resilience of the ECAs, conserve biodiversity, and at the same time, diversify and improve people's livelihood through innovative nature-based (NBS) and locally led adaptation solutions. It will primarily target communities within the 10 km buffer zone of the ECAs, which are critically exposed and vulnerable to climate change impacts and have a lesser capacity to adapt to such changes. It will increase climate resilience of more than 250,000 vulnerable households and ecosystem-based protection and restoration of 5,000km2 area in, especially in the districts of Bagerhat, Satkhira and Khulna in the Sundarbans ECA, and Maulvibazar and Sylhet in Hakaluki Haor. The project will consider the most marginalised communities, involving stakeholders from multiple strata and ensuring ownership of provided interventions. It will also enhance the capacity of the local government bodies to manage and conserve the ECAs effectively and create an enabling environment to implement relevant government plans and policies related to Eco-System based Adaptation (EBA).
∎ Part I: Job Statement
∎ The Accounts Manager position will be primarily responsible for coordinating the financial and relevant administrative activities of the project. The key responsibilities of the Accounts Manager are to ensure alignment of the project interventions with the budget, check the consistency of financial activities at field level and assist the preparation of implementation plan and implementation modalities in line with the budget.
∎ Part II: Job Responsibilities and Tasks
∎ A. Technical activities
∎ B. General Tasks

Compensation & Other Benefits:

Employment Status: Full Time

Job Location: Dhaka

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Company Information:
∎ A reputed National NGO

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Application Deadline: 17 Feb 2024

Category: NGO/Development