Finance & Admin Officer

Job Description

Title: Finance & Admin Officer

Company Name: Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Applicant must have University degree or equivalent qualification (must be MBA in Accounting or Finance)

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ AGNEE Project [Awareness, Actions, and Advocacy for Gender Equal and Safe Spaces for Women and Girls]
∎ Post Type: Full time
∎ Reporting to: Project Coordinator
∎ Project Duration: 3 years

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Maintain system of accounts and keep books and records on all transactions and assets.
∎ Provide useful financial insights to help make better decisions about formulating and executing strategy and provide guidance and analysis to executive and operational management to improve results.
∎ Prepare and analyse accurate monthly financial and management reports, including income statement, balance sheet, budget and variance, projections and forecast, and cash flow.
∎ Maintain control of the following areas: general ledger, accounts payable, expense reports, billing, and payroll.
∎ Assist in the management of grants reporting, compliance, and reconciliation.
∎ Prepare a variety of adhoc financial scenarios as requested
∎ Ensure financial accounting is in compliance with the requirements of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) (including donors) and local authorities such as relevant government ministry and the tax authorities;
∎ Ensure financial internal controls are in place and adhered to the internal control system of ASK.
∎ Keep financial management abreast of the partner organization's financial status and communicate critical matters and provide timely recommendations to the projects for corrective actions as and when required;
∎ Maintain systems for budget monitoring and tracking that include financial and contractual data;
∎ Analyses financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly and annual financial statements; collate and present financial reports to ASK;
∎ Lead and coordinate internal and external audit processes in line with the requirements of ASK, donors, and the local authorities; liaise with external auditors.
∎ Checking all internal and external payment requests along with payment voucher in line with ASK requirements.
∎ Monitoring cash and bank disbursements
∎ Preparation of donor reports with project management teams as and if required
∎ Check all type of vouchers, procurement requests, payment recommendation, expenses claims and overtime (office assistants & drivers)
∎ Compensation and benefit management along with the Human resource responsible.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 5 years' experience on relevant responsibilities
∎ Age at most 30 years (Age may be considered for experienced candidate)
∎ Applicants with CA (CC) will get preference.
∎ Experience in the area of NGO sector.
∎ Experience on procurement, general administration, financial management, budgetary control, reporting, grants management, donor compliance, audit, human resource management.
∎ Experience in similar projects will get preference.
∎ Good communication and interpersonal skill.
∎ Good computer skills on Microsoft Office Tools, especially MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint, and knowledge on accounting software-Tally
∎ Proficient spoken and written English language skills and the capacity to produce quality reports independently.

Salary: Tk. 35697 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ as per organization's policy

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 8 Aug 2022

Company Information:
∎ 1 Aug 2022
∎ Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK)
∎ Business : Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) was established in 1986 as a national legal aid and human rights organization. Initially its work was limited to providing free legal services to the disempowered particularly women, working children and workers in Dhaka city. But over the last thirty three years, ASK has evolved a more comprehensive approach to the promotion, protection and prevention in the area of legal and human rights. ASK’s strategies to promote human rights
awareness and community activism; offer legal aid through mediation and litigation while survivors 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.

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

Category: Accounting/Finance