Job Description
Title: Assistant Officer, Finance and Administration (District)
Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)
Vacancy: 3
Location: Bandarban, Khagrachhari ...
Experience:
∎ At least 3 years
Published: 8 Jan 2025
Education:
∎ Bachelor/Honors
∎ Bachelor Degree in accounting and/or Finance or similar.
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 3 years’ working experience in accounting, financial management.
∎ Experience with Tally software is preferred
∎ Excellent interpersonal communication skills
∎ Proficiency in documentation, facilitation, and reporting.
∎ Strong analytical abilities.
∎ Competency in strategic thinking, decision making, and problem-solving.
∎ Excellent skills on process facilitation and coordination with high standard
∎ Good listening skills
∎ Good presentation skills
∎ Excellent time management skills
∎ Good supportive supervision skills
∎ Experience to work in accounting software.
∎ Hands-on computer (MS Office/Excel and power point) operating skills
∎ Ability to work in high stress situations such as emergency response.
∎ Experience working in Cox’s Bazar or Chittagong Hill Tracts desired
∎ Leading and inspiring others,
∎ Delivering results,
∎ Developing self and others,
∎ Problem solving and decision making,
∎ Innovating and adapting
∎ Inclusive
∎ Empowering
∎ Respect: We strive to acknowledge the contributions of stakeholders and staff and foster an environment that values dignity.
∎ Diversity: We value, respect, and appreciate the unique talents of every individual and work to remove bias for our decisions and actions in our efforts.
∎ Quality: We value the experience and skills of individuals and support and encourage excellence.
∎ Participation: We empower constituents through active participation, and amplify diverse voices, fostering inclusive decision-making and community-driven development.
∎ Integrity: Committed to improving lives with integrity, we uphold honesty, fairness, and truthfulness in all our actions and decisions.
∎ Do no Harm: We ethically enhance communities' lives across all programmes, ensuring equitable, empowering, and non-exploitative interventions that respect and uplift the vulnerable without reinforcing societal inequalities.
∎ Required Qualifications
∎ Minimum 3 years’ working experience in accounting, financial management.
∎ Experience with Tally software is preferred
∎ Skills :
∎ Excellent interpersonal communication skills
∎ Proficiency in documentation, facilitation, and reporting.
∎ Strong analytical abilities.
∎ Competency in strategic thinking, decision making, and problem-solving.
∎ Excellent skills on process facilitation and coordination with high standard
∎ Good listening skills
∎ Good presentation skills
∎ Excellent time management skills
∎ Good supportive supervision skills
∎ Experience to work in accounting software.
∎ Hands-on computer (MS Office/Excel and power point) operating skills
∎ Ability to work in high stress situations such as emergency response.
∎ Experience working in Cox’s Bazar or Chittagong Hill Tracts desired
∎ Competencies:
∎ Leading and inspiring others,
∎ Delivering results,
∎ Developing self and others,
∎ Problem solving and decision making,
∎ Innovating and adapting
∎ Inclusive
∎ Empowering
∎ SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
∎ Respect: We strive to acknowledge the contributions of stakeholders and staff and foster an environment that values dignity.
∎ Diversity: We value, respect, and appreciate the unique talents of every individual and work to remove bias for our decisions and actions in our efforts.
∎ Quality: We value the experience and skills of individuals and support and encourage excellence.
∎ Participation: We empower constituents through active participation, and amplify diverse voices, fostering inclusive decision-making and community-driven development.
∎ Integrity: Committed to improving lives with integrity, we uphold honesty, fairness, and truthfulness in all our actions and decisions.
∎ Do no Harm: We ethically enhance communities' lives across all programmes, ensuring equitable, empowering, and non-exploitative interventions that respect and uplift the vulnerable without reinforcing societal inequalities.
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Reports to: Manager Finance and Administration
∎ Dimensions: Frequent field visit.
∎ Staff directly indirectly reporting to this post: N/A
∎ Key contacts: District Coordinator, Districts Based Technical staff.
∎ Process vendor payments
∎ Maintain petty cash as per organisation policy. Conduct daily cash counting and reconciliation. Ensure program advances are timely disbursed and adjusted as per organisation policy.
∎ Maintain the list of Community Mobiliser for sending to central team for disbursement salary and provide logistics as needed.
∎ Operate accounting software, Tally and provide financial reports as applicable.
∎ Assist the Manager Finance and Admin to analyse and reconcile bank statements monthly- Manage day to day banking activities,
∎ Ensure payments of taxes into government treasury as per the GOB stipulated timeline.
∎ Assist Manager Finance and Admin to collect receivables from FIVDB employees in a timely manner, if applicable.
∎ Assist Manager Finance and Admin to prepare VAT report
∎ Assist Manager Finance and Admin closing the month and year-end financial reports
∎ Provide support during audits.
∎ EAM/PROGRAMME: USAID HICRA
∎ LOCATION: Rangamati, Bnadarban, Khagrachori (Three Position)
∎ GRADE: VII
∎ POST TYPE: Regular (30th September 2026)
∎ INTRODUCTION:
∎ Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari districts are among the lowest ranked in Bangladesh for education, skills training, food security, poverty and agricultural productivity. The situation has worsened since 2017, with the Rohingya refugee influx, which has put enormous pressure on the local economies, resulting in loss of livelihoods, depressed local wages, and distorted local markets. Moreover, these districts are prone to chronic and rapid onset disasters.
∎ In response, the USAID Host and Impacted Communities Resilience Activity (HICRA) led by Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is taking an integrated approach to improve the overall well-being and resilience of people residing in the communities hosting or impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis. This includes implementing livelihoods; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); natural resource management (NRM); and disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions with an estimated 114,000 households across the four prioritized districts.
∎ ROLE
∎ The Assistant Officer, Finance and Administration will report to the Manager Finance & Administration and will oversee day to day finance functions including treasury functions. He/ She will enter accurate, complete and reliable financial information into the finance software, Tally. She/he will follow HICRA’s financial practices and processes which will include maintaining and also overseeing cash flow. The candidate will assist their supervisor to ensure compliance with USAID HICRA and FIVDB accounting policy, donor requirements and generally accepted accounting.
∎ SCOPE OF ROLE:
∎ Reports to: Manager Finance and Administration
∎ Dimensions: Frequent field visit.
∎ Staff directly indirectly reporting to this post: N/A
∎ Key contacts: District Coordinator, Districts Based Technical staff.
∎ Main Areas of Responsibilities.
∎ A. Major Responsibility
∎ Process vendor payments
∎ Maintain petty cash as per organisation policy. Conduct daily cash counting and reconciliation. Ensure program advances are timely disbursed and adjusted as per organisation policy.
∎ Maintain the list of Community Mobiliser for sending to central team for disbursement salary and provide logistics as needed.
∎ Operate accounting software, Tally and provide financial reports as applicable.
∎ Assist the Manager Finance and Admin to analyse and reconcile bank statements monthly- Manage day to day banking activities,
∎ Ensure payments of taxes into government treasury as per the GOB stipulated timeline.
∎ Assist Manager Finance and Admin to collect receivables from FIVDB employees in a timely manner, if applicable.
∎ Assist Manager Finance and Admin to prepare VAT report
∎ Assist Manager Finance and Admin closing the month and year-end financial reports
∎ Provide support during audits.
∎ Additional job responsibilities
∎ The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
∎ Child Safeguarding:
∎ We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
∎ Gender
∎ The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with FIVDB gender policy.
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Bandarban, Khagrachhari, Rangamati
Company Information:
∎ Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.
Address::
∎ Khadimnagar, Sylhet-3103
∎ FIVDB is a development organization, established in 1979. Its major operation cover 7 major districts and concentrates round in the north-east of Bangladesh. It mission is to give disadvantage women, men and children greater voice, reduce their vulnerability, increase use of citizenship rights and help them enhance their quality of life.
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Application Deadline: 23 Jan 2025
Category: Accounting/Finance
