Senior Manager, Finance and Accounts

Job Description

Title: Senior Manager, Finance and Accounts

Company Name: Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC)

Vacancy: Undefined

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor in Accounting and Finance
∎ MBA in Finance
∎ CACC/ CA Partly Qualified/ACA/CPA/ACCA (Preferable)

Experience Requirements:
∎ 7 to 10 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Purpose:
∎ The prime responsibility of the Senior Manager to guide, supervise, track and maintain the day-to-day activities.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Manages day-to-day accounting, invoicing, payroll, cash management and internal financial reporting
∎ Ensures accurate and timely reporting
∎ Continually reviews work practices and procedures for better operational efficiency and potential issues in accounts, financial processes and controls and proactively raise management attention to act and resolve
∎ Provides financial advice on planning and analysis for projects
∎ Provides support and input to project financial planning processes including monitoring progress.
∎ Ensures consistent application of BYLC policies, procedures, advises on operational structure of projects/programmes in accordance with donor requirements, taking into consideration multiple currencies and co-funding requirements
∎ Produces and reviews financial reports, ensuring that expenditure is according to approved contractual budgets
∎ Provides liaison between project managers and donors as and when required
∎ Identifies and communicates major funding gaps and recommends best working solutions to respective managers
∎ Prepares reports and presents findings

Additional Requirements:
∎ Skills:
∎ Advanced degree in accounting, business, economics, finance, or a related field
∎ Several years of experience in a finance role
∎ Superior mathematical skills
∎ Leadership skills and experience
∎ Employee management; understanding of data privacy standards
∎ Solid communication skills, both written and verbal
∎ Public speaking skills
∎ Deep understanding of business principles and practices
∎ Superior attention to detail

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Competitive salary with housing, health and travel allowances
∎ Training on leadership and communication from internationally renowned experts
∎ Voluntary opportunities for youth leadership development
∎ Working in a multicultural environment with diverse and talented youth from Bangladesh and abroad
∎ Develop support capability and critical thinking skills while working with team members to provide assistance as assign

Application Deadline: May 15, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC)
∎ Business : Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC), a registered nonprofit leadership institute, works to build connections among youth from diverse backgrounds, equip them with leadership skills, and enable them to have high impact in public, private, and civil sectors. Conceptualized at Harvard University in 2008, BYLC has brought the best of global leadership education to Bangladesh and made it available to youth who would otherwise not have had the opportunity to receive such world-class leadership education. Drawing on concepts of organizing, communication and leadership taught at Harvard and MIT, BYLC has designed its leadership programs that reach out to diverse segments of youth in different age groups.

Category: Accounting/Finance