Director - Finance & Administration

Job Description

Title: Director - Finance & Administration

Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ M.Com/ MBA, (with CA course completion from a reputed firm and at least 10
∎ years of working experience national or international NGO)
∎ FCA/FCMA with experience in development sector

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 10 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ A. Planning related responsibilities:
∎ Lead annual and five yearly financial planning and budgeting exercises in consultation with ED and other stakeholders preparatory to obtaining approval from EC and NGO Bureau.
∎ Preparation and management of budget.
∎ Develop advanced financial analysis for five-year work plans.
∎ Manage funding requirement and liquidity.
∎ Formulate appropriate policies, strategies and systems to maximize efficiency and compliance related to admin & finance.
∎ Ensure preparation of statement of accounts on program activities for donor agencies.
∎ B. Implementation related responsibilities:
∎ Financial management:
∎ Monitor and review financial planning and performance in consultation with Executive Director and senior management team members and recommend remedial action.
∎ Prepare financial reports and analysis for action by ED and approval by EC.
∎ Establish/fine tune systems and procedures and indicators to define, execute and monitor internal check and control system.
∎ Maintain effective financial management and accounting systems as per local and international standards.
∎ Submit financial reporting to Executive Committee, Consortium Partners and other donor partners, NGO Bureau and Joint Stock Company, etc;
∎ Liaison with PNGOs, Donor partners and relevant government agencies.
∎ Arrange audits as required and take necessary measures to implement audit recommendations.
∎ C. Policy Formulation:
∎ Formulate policies as a part of the senior management.
∎ Develop and implement HR policies for recruitment, placement, promotion, disciplinary issues, compensation and benefit, employee relations and welfare.
∎ Design plans for building institutional capacity and design implementation measures/interventions to strengthen the structure.
∎ D. Administration:
∎ Supervise procurements.
∎ Provide administrative approval up to a certain limit of procurement.
∎ Ensure application of financial management, procurement &HR policies and rules.
∎ Ensure the maintenance & security system of organization
∎ Arrange for EC meetings and AGM.
∎ E. HRM:
∎ Supervise recruitment, placement, evaluate performance and training needs,
∎ salaries relating to all staff.
∎ Approve leave applications of selected employees.
∎ Handle grievances of employees.
∎ Design, develop and upgrade the staff evaluation system.
∎ F. Liaison:
∎ Maintain liaison with government offices including NGO Bureau, donor partners &non-government organizations.
∎ Negotiate, monitor and draft agreements/contracts with other agencies.
∎ G. Staffing related responsibilities:
∎ Supervise and appraise staff performance and organize training of admin, finance and accounts team members.
∎ H. Others Responsibilities:
∎ Monitor financial progress and financial risk management
∎ Participate in various meetings as and when required.
∎ S/he will report directly to the Executive Director and submit approval for all
∎ financial budgets and plans to the Executive Committee and perform any other
∎ functions assigned from time to time.
∎ And all other responsibilities allocated by the organization.

Additional Requirements:
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Accounts, Cash Management, Finance, Strategic Planning, Tax (VAT/Customs Duty/Income Tax, Audit
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO
∎ Additional Job Requirements:
∎ Must be computer literate
∎ Must have recent experience working in software based accounting system.
∎ Knowledge in advanced excel is a plus.

Salary: Negotiable

Application Deadline: 26 Jan 2021

Company Information:
∎ 6 Jan 2021
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
∎ Business : Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a national legal aid and human rights organization, was established in 1986. Over the last thirty years ASK has evolved a comprehensive approach to the promotion and protection of legal and human rights. Its strategies promote human rights awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation, while clients are given psycho-social counseling; investigations into human rights violations and their documentation are supplemented by research which together lead to media campaigns to defend human rights, and public interest litigation for law and policy reform. Being committed to attaining gender equality at every sphere of life, ASK’s activities have special focus on women but providing legal aid to victims/survivors of arbitrary arrest, preventive detention and taking stand against unlawful evictions, extra judicial killings, torture and death in custody, condition of the prisoners and interests of the religious and ethnic minorities very much are its concerns. ASK?s advocacy is carried out both at the national level and international level. ASK’s publication are an important means of disseminating information and knowledge.

For more information about ASK and what we do visit our website at www.askbd.org

Category: Accounting/Finance