Assistant Officer, Finance and Administration (Sub District/Upazilla)

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

 

Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

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Summary

• Vacancy: 4
• Location: Cox’s Bazar (Chakaria, Ramu …
• Experience: At least 2 years
• Published: 8 Jan 2025

 

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor/Honors, Bachelor/Honors

Bachelor Degree in accounting and/or Finance or similar.

Experience

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
  NGO

Additional Requirements

• Minimum 2 years’ working experience in accounting, financial management.
• Experience with Tally software is preferred
• Bachelor Degree in accounting and/or Finance or similar.

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

Responsibilities & Context

TEAM/PROGRAMME: USAID HICRA

LOCATION: Teknaf, Ukhia,Chakaria, Ramu( Four 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 Finance and Administration will report to the Upazilla Coordinator 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: Upazilla Coordinator

Dimensions: Frequent field visit.

Staff directly indirectly reporting to this post: N/A

Key contacts: Upazilla 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.
• 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.
• Collect receivables from FIVDB employees in a timely manner.
• Prepare VAT report
• 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

Contractual

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Chakaria, Ramu, Teknaf, Ukhia)

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