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Government of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh Local Government Engineering Department Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project RDEC Bhaban, Level-3 Agargaon, Shere-e-Bangla Nagar Dhaka-1207 www.lged.gov.bd |
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Memo No.: LGED/PD/HILIP/M-02(Part-01)/2012/5354 Date:
06/05/2018
Request for Expression of Interest (EOI)
For
Short-listing
of a National Individual Consultant: Financial Management Specialist
The Government of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh has received a credit for Haor
Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP)) from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Spanish Food Security
Co-financing Facility Trust Fund (IFAD Loan No-I-847-BD, IFAD Grant
No-I-C-847-BD & Trust Loan No-E-3-BD) and intends to apply part of the
proceeds of this credit to cover eligible payments under the contract for the
provision of consultancy services for the project by the following National
Individual Consultant. In view of above, the Project intends to
engage the same consultant. The service, experience, resource and delivery
capacity expected for the position are outlined as follows:-
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Package
No. |
Position
Name |
No of Post |
Qualification
and Experience |
Key
Responsibilities |
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HILIP/16/SD3/03 |
Financial Management Specialist |
1 |
Ø The Financial Management Specialist should be Chartered Accountant
or post graduate degree in accountancy, finance, economics or equivalent and
preferably have 10 years’ experience in the financial management of projects
involving funds from different foreign sources ,(preferably
ADB, World Bank, JICA, KFW, IFAD or other similar financiers). The FMS should have proficiency in MS
office (i.e. MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point). |
The major roles,
duties and responsibilities of the FMS are outlined below: Ø Effectively manage the financial aspects of the Project in a timely
coordinated manner. Ø Be familiar with the IPSAS accounting system and introduce those
system in the project by giving training to the relevant accounting staff; Ø Prepare manuals for conducting financial training and provide
training to Project staff, at PMU and district level Ø Support finance staff in the correct utilizationof
accounting software. Ø Ensure that relevant staff of the PMU, LGED and other offices
understands the requirements, procedures and guidelines of the financing
agencies in accounting systems, procedures, budgeting and fund disbursement. Ø Be responsible for accurately monitoring and reporting actual and
forecast future expenditures of funds (from the different sources) on a monthly
and quarterly basis. Ø Make liaison with representatives of the different funding agencies
for the Project, as necessary and directed by the Project Director (PD); Ø Advise on the TORs for conducting internal audits; Ø Assist the PD and finance staff in preparing monthly, quarterly and
annual financial statements and Project progress reports. Ø Advise on action to be taken to mitigate gaps in internal controls
and effectively follows up on action to be taken. Advise on month-end
reconciliations. Ø Advise PD on Loan and Grant agreement compliance and ensure
compliance on loan and grant covenants are maintained. Ø Advise and monitor audit observations and effectively follow up and
implement audit recommendation and resolve the audit issue/s. Ø Advise on internal audit observations and monitor follow-up
recommendations. Ø Ensure adherence to Donor and Government requirements and
regulations in reporting and controls. Ø Review, Analyze and Finalize Budget Variances for all five Districts
and PMU Ø Arrange monthly Budget Variance meeting to be chaired by the Project
Director Ø Review, Analyze and Report Aging of advances for all five |Districts
and make recommendations for long pending advances Ø Review and Analyze Monthly Reimbursement Report prepared by the
Districts Ø Review and advice to keep the
steadiness of expected cash flows attributed to the Districts’ activities Ø Other duties as may be reasonably assigned by the PD. |
The Project Director now invites eligible
applicants to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested
applicants are invited to provide information indicating that they are
qualified and competent to perform the services with a complete CV having one
copy of recent passport size photograph and other details as required as per
the application forms of RFA document provided by the undersigned.
Only one
consultant will be selected using the Time-Based
Selection method in accordance with the PPR-2008 issued by the GOB. It
is expected that the services may be commenced on June/2018. Interested applicants
may obtain further information and collect the request for application (RFA)
documents by applying to the address mentioned above during office hours up to 27/05/2018
at 5:00 PM. Expressions of interest shall be submitted by the applicants on or before 28/05/2018 at 2.00 PM in sealed envelope delivered to the
undersigned and be clearly marked “Request
for expression of interest for short-listing of Financial Management
Specialist”.
(Gopal
Chandra Sarker)
Project Director
Phone: 02 8144578
Email: gopalpdhilip@gmail.com
CC:
1.
The Chief Engineer, LGED, Dhaka.
2.
The Director General, CPTU, IMED, Block-12, Shere
Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207; He is requested to publish the above notice in CPTU
website.
3.
The Additional Chief Engineer
(-----------------------), LGED, Dhaka.
4.
The Unit In- Charge, MIS Unit, LGED, Dhaka: He
is requested to publish the above notice in LGED website.
5.
The Editor 1)The Daily Jugantor
2) : The Daily Star ; He is requested to publish the above notice in his widely
circulated daily newspaper in inner page for 1 day only before 09/05/2018.
6.
Office Copy.