Finance Officer

Duty Station : Sittwe

Report to : Support Services Manager

Overall purpose of the role :

• General Finance: Fulfill daily accounting tasks, coordinate financial functions, and ensure compliance with procedures and donor regulations.
• Partnership Focus: Serve as the primary focal point for implementing partners. Provide financial technical advice, capacity building, compliance checks, audit preparation, and partner budget/report reviews.

Responsibilities:

Finance Responsibilities

Financial Payments & Treasury:

• • Ensure timely processing of payments following internal checklists, national tax laws, and donor regulations.
  • Maintain and update Payment Trackers and IW workflows.
  • Initiate monthly Cash Transfer Requests (CTR) and maintain sufficient cash balances.
  • Manage informal agent fee submissions as needed.

Financial Accounting & Month-End Closure:

• Update cashbooks daily for accurate cash count and bank balances across all currencies.
• Upload PEX, Vendor Payments, and General Journal (GJ) entries into the Dynamics ERP system accurately and on time.
• Complete monthly bank reconciliations and perform invoice entries prior to vendor payments.
• Assist with monthly and yearly country office financial closings and audit documentation.

Coordination & Field Support:

• • Liaise with Program and Support teams during regular coordination meetings.
  • Conduct field monitoring and support program teams during direct cash payments to beneficiaries.

Partnership Responsibilities

Technical Support & Capacity Building:

• • Serve as the main contact person and provide technical guidance to implementing partner finance teams.
  • Design tools, financial reporting formats, and templates to assist partners in managing financial data.
  • Conduct regular financial capacity-building sessions and training for partner staff.

Partner Financial Management & Budgetary Control:

• • Check, validate, and review partner financial reports before loading transactions into the ERP system.
  • Conduct due diligence evaluations of partner financial policies, procedures, and guidelines.
  • Exercise budgetary controls during partner proposal budgeting, budget revisions, and expenditure tracking.
  • Facilitate and track installment disbursements based on Sub-Grant Agreement (SGA) milestones.
  • Hold monthly meetings with Budget Holders and partners to review key variances, co-funding, indirect cost allocations, and corrective actions.

Partner Compliance, Audit & Reporting:

• • Perform regular compliance checks/audits on partner financial reports with feedback for learning and accountability.
  • Ensure partners adhere to country statutory obligations (taxes, levies, statutory returns).
  • Coordinate partner General Ledger (GL) uploads into Dynamics prior to extracting donor reports.
  • Support partner assessment processes and follow up on audit improvement plans.

Coordination and collaboration:

• • Liaise and support with program team and support service team on regular coordination meeting for technical support
  • Field monitoring and supporting programming on cash payments to beneficiaries.

Any other duties relating to the nature of the job as requested by the Line Manager or Finance Specialist.

Required experience and technical competencies

• University Degree in Finance/Accounting or Business Administration or equivalent professional qualification
• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in financial/accounting field
• Certification of LCCI Level I, II, III
• Good level in English and Myanmar languages, both in written and Oral is required.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel
• Basic proficiency in PowerPoint and Word
• Experience in working in NGOs

All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC’s core competencies:

• Striving for excellence : Focusing on reaching results while ensuring efficient processes.
• Collaborating : Involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.
• Taking the lead : Taking ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating : Listening and speaking effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity : Upholding and promoting the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

Condition

Contract: DRC will offer the successful applicant a DRC’s Regular contract including 3-month probation. Renewable depends on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions will be in accordance with DRC’s Terms of Employment. The position is placed in Employment Band H - non management. Only applicants who can work and be based in Sittwe, Rakhine State, are eligible for this position.

Application and CV

Interested? Click here to apply. Please send your application, in English, no later than 2 Sep 2026 .

CV only applications will not be considered.

(Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates may be contacted for interview/an offer made before the advertised closing date)