VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Finance and Administrative Officer

CONTEXT

Water & Life Bangladesh, an International NGO, created by the French NGO Eau & Vie is active in Bangladesh in the livelihood development of Urban Slum dwellers implementing Firefighting, Hygiene promotion, sanitation and solid waste management activities.

W&L Bangladesh works in close association with the social business company Shobar Jonno Pani Ltd. (SJP), created by Eau & Vie in 2010, specialized in water supply in urban slums of Bangladesh, aiming at creating quality-controlled, piped and metered water supply networks which are financially viable, socially responsible and adapted to the needs of urban poor.
Both W&L and SJP engaged in partnerships with the local communities, authorities, water operator and other development stakeholders.

Water & Life Bangladesh is going to set up another water project in Chittagong, in link with CWASA.

POSITION
Finance and administrative officer - Water programs

Location:
Based in W&L Bangladesh Dhaka

Reporting to:
Under the direct supervision of W&L Finance and Administrative Manager

COORDINATION:
With SJP Program Manager and Branch Manager.

JOB SUMMARY :
The Finance and Administrative officer will be in charge of taking care of the administrative and accounting aspects of the water programs.

SPECIFIC TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Administrative

• To provide all the administrative documents to the RJSC/ BOI.  
• To support the Finance and Administrative Manager on the issues linked to VAT and Taxes return.
• Up-date Fixed asset register.
• To take care of the salary administration.
• To maintain advance register.

Accounting

• To take care for daily payment and receipt of the water program.
• To prepare monthly salary and other benefit payments and ensure on time transfers.
• To prepare all debit and credit vouchers.
• To calculate deductions for VAT and TDS and deposit VAT and TDS to government treasury as per government law.
• To prepare monthly bank reconciliation statement.
• To take care of petty cash management.
• To encode all transactions according to budget lines on tally.    
• To provide all the necessary exported files to financially monitor the water programs.

Invoice processing

• To check completeness and correctness of invoices.
• To ensure all transactions are duly signed and authorized.
• To prepare monthly salary acknowledgement sheet of individual employee.
• To take care of the record keeping of the Vouchers of the water Program.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education: MBA /Masters in Accounting from any recognized university with minimum 2nd division/ class/ CGPA 2.00 in ail academic results. No 3rd division/ class/ below CGPA 2.00 is acceptable. Candidate with CA CC will get the preference.  

Experience
Minimum 5 years of work experience in similar position.

Skills

The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

• Proven skill on Microsoft Office and ICT.
• Spoken, understanding and reading English
• Accounting skills
• Knowledge of Tally software would be a plus

Human qualities

The incumbent must maintain confidentiality, use sound judgement and perform independently while performing the duties of the human resource officer. The incumbent must also demonstrate the following personal attributes:

• Effective verbal and listening communications skills
• Dynamic and team spirit
• Be respectful
• Be flexible
• Demonstrate sound work ethics
• Be consistent and fair
• Social concern
• Rigour and methodology

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Interested candidates are requested to send complete CV (maximum three pages, please use your name in naming CV, i.e. if name is XYZ  attach  CV as CV_XYZ, otherwise applications won’t be examined) along with a cover letter before June 5, 2015 to:  Programme Manager, Water & Life Bangladesh at:  waterandlife.bangladesh@gmail.com

* Applicants accept the final authority of the selection board & its decision.