CAREER OPPORTUNITY

U.S. Embassy Dhaka is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the position of Financial Specialist.

NOTE: Due to the high volume of applications received, we will only contact applicants who are being considered. Thank you for your understanding.

Directly responsible for the accurate and timely preparation, justification, and execution of Post's Budget Plans for St-Program, ICASS, Public Diplomacy (PDS), OBO, Diplomatic Security, CDC, Consular, MSG, FAS, PRM, CT, FCS, USDOC (Commerce), USDOL, DOS-INL, DOD-DIA and Training budgets including the preparation of financial accounts, expenditure analysis, forecasting and funds control for approximately over US $ 37.27 million in operational allotments. Supervises 11 Locally Engaged Staff including 2 sub-ordinate level supervisors. Organize tasks, set priorities, and monitor progress of the FMO staff. Also analyze, develop, and enhance Financial Management Operations workflow. Manages the staff for budget formulation and justification, accounting, voucher examination, payroll, and cashiering functions. Develops and maintains policies and procedures. Provides guidance in interpreting laws and regulations. Ensures best banking practices and strong internal controls. Advises Management on critical fiscal regulatory issues of the host Government, particularly its Central Bank regulations. Acts as de facto deputy to Financial Management Officer (FMO) for the American Embassy, Dhaka. Resolves personnel conflicts and ensures training programs are adequate to meet employee's needs. Manages daily operations of accounting, vouchering and cashiering systems liaising with GFS Bangkok as required. Provides guidance to staff on changes to accounting system changes. Maintains and monitors ICASS uniform service standards with primary responsibility for updates as needed to Financial Management Center (FMC) goals and objectives. Analyzes customer survey results and provides recommendations and input to the FMO, Service Provider and the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS) Council Chair as part of the ICASS Annual Assessment process. Responsible for maintaining records and ensuring archiving procedures are followed. Certifies petty cash and non-cash vouchers as the Alternate Certifying Officer. Also releases vouchers for payment in the system. Prepares Management reports related to the trends of exchange rate fluctuations, wage & price increases, and advance projection of post's fiscal and human resources requirement for 3 to 5 years ahead. Incumbent is also FMO's principal point of contact with Washington Regional Bureau, ICASS Service Center, CGFS: Bangkok, USDO, USDO Bank in Dhaka, AIS/D, AEEA. Monitors VAT filing and refunds. Meets with the officials of Bangladesh Government VAT office whenever any issues arise to and get them resolved.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Completion of a University degree either in Business Administration, or Accounting, or Finance, or Economics, or Management is required. (You must attach a copy of your certificates along with your application form.)
  
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in either in Accounting and Budgeting or Financial Management as a Financial Specialist, Financial Manager, Financial Project/Program Manager, Financial Accountant, Management Accountant, Financial Consultant or Financial Advisor working in banking, financial services, a finance department within a government, NGO, commerce/private sector. Also, one year of supervisory experience is required. Experience as a supervisor managing a medium to large diverse workforce is required.
  
• Language: Fluent (speaking/reading/writing) in English and Bangla is required.
  This may be tested.

Please visit the U.S. Embassy recruitment page at https://bd.usembassy.gov/embassy/jobs/ and access Electronic Recruitment Application (ERA) to submit your application electronically.

Application submission deadline: December 26, 2023