Number of Post: 01

Location of Posting: Chattogram

Contract Duration: Initially till 31st December 2025 with the potentiality of extension.

Job Summary

PROTTYASHI, a social development organization has been working for the development of disadvantaged population of the country since its establishment with an aim to ensure everyone to live with dignity and prosperity. PROTTYASHI reaches the community with basic needs and supports to save lives and facilitate all the people of the community to live with equal value and priority. PROTTYASHI works for the disadvantaged portion of the population in community addressing their pressing needs following the strategies contextually viable and environmentally sustainable.

Remittance is one of the key driving forces of Bangladesh economy largely contributing to the socioeconomic development of Bangladesh since the independence of the country. Bangladesh received an amount of 23.91 billion USD as remittance in Fiscal Year 2023-2024 (Bangladesh Economic Review 2024). According to the World Bank, without remittances, 48 percent of Bangladeshi households with at least one migrant would be poor, increasing Bangladesh's poverty rate by 5 percent. However, the utilisation of remittances remains a challenge. Two-thirds of the remittance-receiving households do not have any savings and more than half do not have investments due to lack of access to information about the proper utilisation of remittances. This makes them more vulnerable to economic shocks that can potentially push them back into poverty. On the other hand, financial institutions are mostly unaware of this potential clientele and there is a general lack of coordination among various service providers and duty-bearers.

To strengthen remittance management in Bangladesh improving digital financial literacy of the returnee migrants and the family members of the migrants in Bangladesh, PROTTYASHI is going to implement “Fostering Digital Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Development for Migrants and Their Families” project in Chattogram and Feni District in partnership with UNCDF. PROTTYASHI invites applications for the vacant position titled- Finance and Admin Officer for the Project and encourages the persons enthusiastic to contribute to the strengthened remittance management in Bangladesh. 

Reporting

The Finance and Admin Officer will report to the Assistant Director (Finance) of PROTTYASHI. S/He has to maintain a functional relationship with his/her peers, project teams, and the organization’s other priority teams. S/He must be able to communicate with other teams and units both program and operational of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing Financial Statements (Balance Sheet, Receipt and Payment, Cash Flow Statement, and related notes)
• Monitoring of fund management-related activities with the Project Coordinator.
• Prepare and maintain spreadsheet and subsidiary records in respect of payment.
• Make necessary journal entries and prepare trial balances using accounting software.
• Monthly and periodic financial statement preparation for the organization and donor.
• Monitor and control IT and VAT deduction at source and deposit accordingly and issue necessary payment certificates to respective suppliers/service providers.
• Prepare program/project accounts, financial reports for the donor(s),
• Coordination with Internal and External Audit related activities
• Check and recommend Payment Vouchers, and cheques and maintain day-to-day banking and fund management.
• Ensure all supporting vouchers are attached with payment request before payment.
• Responsible for Petty Cash funds and weekly reports for reimbursement
• Ensure cash advances are monitored and cleared on a timely basis.
• Prepare and update the advance register and notify staff if there is any pending advance to be settled.
• Issue receipts for all money received by cash, cheque, and bank transfer.
• Prepare bank reconciliations for all accounts.
• Preparing daily/weekly reports of bank balances and outstanding cheques.
• Ensure all financial vouchers are scanned and archiving of soft copy.
• Ensure all hard copy vouchers are archived properly
• Promote gender and social equity in all project interventions.
• Adhere to conflict-sensitive program management and display conflict-sensitive behavior

Required Educational Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor/Master's degree in business studies from any reputed university.
• At least 03 years of professional experience in financial management at the project level in national or international organizations.

Technical Skills

• Proficient with MS Office suite
• CA (cc) will be an added advantage.

Salary and benefits:

Monthly Gross Salary will be 35,763 BDT with contributory provident fund 1,737BDT, monthly bonus 3,125BDT and regular traveling and communication bill.

Application instructions

Only those who meet the above requirements are requested to apply following these instructions.

Last date of application is 11/02/2025 at 5.00 PM.

Apply Instruction

Or

Interested applicants with relevant background have to apply with a Cover Letter, Curriculum Vitae (CV) along with a recent photograph to career.prottyashi@gmail.com

Note:

• Prottyashi aims to attract and select a diverse workforce ensuring equal opportunity to everyone, irrespective of race, age, gender, HIV status, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion.
• Women are particularly encouraged to apply.
• Any personal persuasion/phone-call will result in disqualification of candidature. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
• Prottyashi has a non-negotiable policy of ZERO TOLERANCE towards discrimination, harassment and abuse. All employees are expected to abide by the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse & Child Protection Policy of Prottyashi.
• Internal and external applicants shall be treated equally in the entire selection process.
• To ensure transparent processes during recruitment, internal candidates should discuss potential applications with their Line Managers to ensure endorsement of their applications by respective Line Managers.
• There is no cost involved with applying for positions with Prottyashi. Any solicitation of job application costs should be regarded as fraudulent.