Job Title

Regional Finance Officer (RFO)

Cost Centre

62306

Location

Dhaka, Bangladesh

No. of Direct Reports

0

Reporting to

Regional Finance Director (RFD)

Budget Responsibilities (Y/N)

N

The Function

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one of the 20 largest charities in the UK, providing family planning services across the globe. MSI operates as a social enterprise, and revenues are divided almost equally between donor funds and revenue from clients that receive our services.

Millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality sexual and reproductive health care. We have been delivering contraception and mother and baby care for over thirty years and work in 42 countries around the world. By providing high quality services where they are needed the most, we prevent unnecessary deaths and make a sustainable impact on the lives of millions of people every year.

The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: the prevention of unwanted births and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to: children by choice not chance.

It is a role requirement that the job holder must fully comply with, promote and live MSI Core Values:
The Regional Finance Team supports country programmes to deliver accurate and timely financial and performance reports.

The Role

Reporting to the RFD, the RFO will be a key member of the South and East Asia regional team which is spread across Asia and Europe. The RFO’s primary responsibility will be to provide financial management support to the Bangladesh country programme, but they may also support other country programmes in China, India, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines and Viet Nam.  

Key Responsibilities

Support of country programmes:

• With the RFD, review monthly performance of country programmes (reviewing both financial and statistical data), and follow up key queries with country programmes.
• Support the RFD to understand and improve the efficiency of country programme operations and business models.
• Review country programme budgeting and forecasting.
• Review monthly country programme balance sheet reconciliations, and follow up discrepancies with country programmes.
• Review and process all country programme cash requests, to ensure that cash is transferred in a timely manner.
• Work with finance teams to ensure country programmes fully comply with the group accounting manual, and all data-entry and validation procedures.
• Work with country programmes and Global Accounting Team to ensure all outstanding queries are resolved (for example, monthly inter-company, deferred income and stock accounting queries).
• Work with country programmes to understand training needs, and work with the Global Accounting Team to ensure all training requirements are met. Deliver elements of training and inductions as directed by the RFD.
• Review project budget proposals, and work with country programmes to ensure projects are correctly set-up, reported-on and closed down.
• Support country programmes to ensure all local statutory and tax reporting requirements are met.
• Provide other high quality support to country programmes as directed by the Regional Finance Director and International Operations Team, including occasionaly providing short-term cover to help fill vacant roles in country programme finance teams.

Experience (essential/desirable)

• Accounting, Financial & management reporting experience. (essential)
• Experience with an international commercial organization. (essential)
• Experience in use of Microsoft Office packages. (essential)
• Finance systems experience, preferably including SUN systems, InforQ&A and InforBI. (desirable)
• Experienced in multi currency reporting and accounting. (desirable)
• Experience of group reporting in an international donor funded organisation. (desirable)
• Experience documenting procedures and processes. (desirable)

Qualifications and Training (essential/desirable)

• Qualified Chartered Accountant. (Desirable)
• University degree. (essential)

Personal Attributes

Work as One MSI

• You contribute, use, and share accurate data and evidence to improve understanding, insight and decision-making across MSI, enabling us to maximise our ability to influence others.
• You share relevant knowledge, expertise and resources to strengthen teamwork and prevent duplication of effort.
• You actively work as part of a team, providing support and flexibility to colleagues, demonstrating fairness, understanding and respect for all people and cultures.

Show courage, authenticity and integrity

• You hold yourself accountable for the decisions you make and the behaviours you demonstrate.
• You are courageous in challenging others and taking appropriate managed risks.

Develop and grow

• You seek feedback to enable greater self-awareness and provide the same to others in a way which inspires them to be even more effective.
• You manage your career development including keeping your knowledge and skills up to date.

Deliver excellence, always

• You strive to consistently meet and exceed expectations, putting clients at the centre of everything, and implement smarter, more efficient ways of performing your role.
• You build and maintain effective long-term working relationships with all stakeholders, and are a true MSI ambassador.

MSI Values