Officer – Finance & Admin

New Delhi - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 4-5years

Posted on: 3 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Organization

ICRISAT seeks applications from Indian nationals for the position of an Officer Finance & Admin. This is a national position led by Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) New Delhi.

ICRISAT is a non-profit non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries the semi-arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru near Hyderabad India with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty hunger malnutrition and environment degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea pigeon pea groundnut sorghum pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the dryland and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit .

About the position

Located at New Delhi under the direct supervision of the Senior Manager Country Office India the incumbent will provide efficient and effective finance and administrative support to the office as well as the other national and international staff.

Key responsibilities

Finance:

Plan organize and execute financial tasks of the office;
Facilitate and process general accounting and financial transactions of India office;
Monitor the day-to-day financial operations ensuring compliance to policies and guidelines;
Monitor and execute the operations budget ensuring utilization vis-a-vis approved budget;
Process timely payments of India office. Process invoices expense forms and request for payments accurately and timely ensuring compliance to policies and guidelines;
Process all payments in compliance to the statutory deductions as applicable by government of India directives;
Prepare Fund Requests for remittance from HQ for Project and Operational needs based on detailed requirements of Projects and office operations;
Ensure that all accounting records are properly documented with supporting ensuring adherence to policies and guidelines;
Prepare Monthly Financial reports bank reconciliation and cash verification statements;
Prepare and provide accurate financial information to different stakeholders inside and outside the organization;
Liaise for in country audits with the audit firm in India;
Liaise with HQ for internal and external audits as the requirements may be;
Coordinate with local authorized bank for smooth coordination update of records submission of Financial Reports Tax compliance;
Timely and effective coordination with the local bank complying with statutory requirements for office license. Coordinate license renewal when required;
Participates in the execution of changes to procedures policies and systems to facilitate adoption and compliance.

Procurement Travel Safety Security:

Support the CoM in Procurement and Travel functions for the office;
Coordinate and ensure procurement of supplies equipment and services including the monitoring and evaluation of vendor contracts;
Process all procurement requests through Agresso ensuring that the procurement of goods/services is backed by essential supporting complying with the policy and country guidelines;
Provide necessary support to staff for proper application and adherence to the policy;
Ensure support in compliance to travel procedures and troubleshooting where required;
Ensure data is always entered and fully saved in the Travel Tool system;
Safety Security focal point for India office.

Administration:

Coordinate facilities maintenance building and security transport services and related activities of India office;
Liaise with related service providers to ensure effective services;
Support in logistics arrangement for organizing and facilitating project events including local and international meetings training workshops and conferences;
Ensure physical assets are adequately maintained and insured and inventory conducted per the policy;
Oversee provision of administrative and finance services to project outreach office as assigned (currently Bengaluru);
Coordination for the Vehicle movement maintenance and related requirements of India office;
Provide administrative and secretarial support to Country Representative and Country Office Manager;
Other duties as required by the Country Representative and Manager;
Regularly review administrative processes and procedures to ensure services are delivered in the most efficient and effective manner and in compliance with the organizations policies and procedures.

IT:

IT Focal point for India office.

Requirements

Bachelors degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience preferably in an international working environment;
Good computer skills especially with Word Excel PowerPoint Windows and internet-based communications;
Good command of the English language both written and spoken is desirable;
Strong interpersonal communications and teamwork skills; courtesy tact and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different cultural and national backgrounds;
Well-developed skills in personal organization priority setting problem solving accuracy high attention to details;
Ability to work with significant independence within assigned areas;
Dynamic and self-motivated character willingness to up skill as required by the tasks to be performed.

Benefits

This is a full-time position based in New Delhi India and available for Indian nationals. The successful candidate should be available to commence as soon as possible for an initial of one (1) year fixed term contract with the possibility of contract renewal depending on performance and funding situation.

How to apply

Applicants should apply on or before 9 March 2026 with their latest Resume and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Why ICRISAT

ICRISAT offers a rewarding career opportunity in dryland agricultural research to have a lasting impact on millions of lives and communities. The state of the art research infrastructure with high performance culture ICRISAT provides global exposure and learning. For more details visit

Required Skills:

Bachelors degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience preferably in an international working environment; Good computer skills especially with Word Excel PowerPoint Windows and internet-based communications; Good command of the English language both written and spoken is desirable; Strong interpersonal communications and teamwork skills; courtesy tact and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of different cultural and national backgrounds; Well-developed skills in personal organization priority setting problem solving accuracy high attention to details; Ability to work with significant independence within assigned areas; Dynamic and self-motivated character willingness to up skill as required by the tasks to be performed.

The Organization ICRISAT seeks applications from Indian nationals for the position of an Officer Finance & Admin. This is a national position led by Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) New Delhi.ICRISAT is a non-profit non-political org...