Senior Finance Officer

BDT(Tk)  Negotiable Full time on site
Senior Finance Officer
Job Description

Responsibilities & Context

  • Reports To: Deputy Country Director

  • Duration: Fixed-term contract till March 2027 with potential scope of extension

  • Start Date: March 2025

Context

  • BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity. We use media and communication to help deliver stronger democracies, a safer, more habitable planet, and inclusive societies. We combine a unique blend of journalistic, creative, research, and international development expertise, deep local knowledge of our audiences in the places we work, strong networks of local partners, and our invaluable link to the BBC and everything it stands for.

  • We serve people most vulnerable to information disorder (including mis- and disinformation and information poverty), division, and distrust. We focus on people underserved by public interest media and at the frontline of global challenges, risks and crises. We have a particular affinity for and track record of working with young people as agents of change; they will continue to be a central focus. BBC Media Action works with partners around the world to provide impartial, impactful, trustworthy media to people in need so that they can make informed choices to transform their lives.

Job purpose

  • The Senior Finance Officer will work across multiple projects with responsibility for financial management, internal and donor financial reporting and compliance with BBC Media Action’s multi-country projects. She/he will also be responsible for financial management, reporting and monitoring for BBC Media Action’s sub-grantee and partner organization. S/he will maintain an oversight of financial performance across the portfolio and provide accurate and timely financial information and advice to the project team.


Employment Status

Contractual

Job Location

Dhaka

Job Highlights

  • MS Powerpoint, Basic graphics, Internet, E-mail, Browsing etc.

• The applicant has good typing speed for email typing