Job Summary

Join us as an Assistant Manager and revolutionise banking, microfinance, MFS, FinTech, and the financial services and payment ecosystem in Bangladesh! Deliver game-changing solutions, drive innovation, and work with top industry leaders. Ready to make a lasting impact Your journey starts here!

Responsibilities

- Project delivery, research, and technical support: Take ownership of defined work streams and support client assignments; lead smaller or shorter assignments under the supervision of senior team members, where appropriate.
- Plan and conduct primary and secondary research, including literature reviews, interviews, field surveys, focus group discussions, market research, and data analysis, as required.
- Structure problems, analyse evidence, and synthesise findings into high-quality reports, presentations, briefs, tools, and recommendations relevant to client needs.
- Support advisory work across financial inclusion themes, including diagnostics, product or channel development, ecosystem assessments, implementation and pilot support, and policy or regulatory analysis.
- Engage professionally with clients and ecosystem stakeholders, including financial service providers, regulators, government agencies, development partners, private-sector organisations, and industry actors.
- Participate in and, where appropriate, support the facilitation of client meetings, workshops, field visits, and stakeholder consultations; prepare materials and document decisions and follow-up actions.
- Coordinate with IFE colleagues and cross-functional MSC teams to ensure smooth delivery, timely communication, and quality outputs.



Be willing to travel within Bangladesh and occasionally internationally, as assignments require.
- Business development and knowledge support: Support concept notes, expressions of interest (EOIs), proposals, and technical approaches for opportunities from clients, donors, governments, and development partners.
- Conduct market and background research on prospective clients, emerging themes, policy developments, and industry trends to support business development and practice growth.
- Contribute to MSCs knowledge leadership through focus notes, briefing notes, blogs, case studies, toolkits, and other publications on inclusive finance topics.
- Contribute ideas and market intelligence to help identify and pursue opportunities that expand MSCs inclusive finance advisory portfolio in Bangladesh.

Requirements

Educational qualification

- Bachelor or Masters degree in economics, finance, business or public administration, development studies, social sciences, or a related field.

Required knowledge and skills

- Inclusive finance ecosystem knowledge: Working understanding of Bangladeshs financial inclusion landscape and key actors, including banks, MFIs, NBFIs, MFS providers and fintech, regulators, and development partners.




- Analytical and problem-solving skills: Ability to structure problems from limited information, connect insights across sources, and apply quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop practical solutions.
- Research and advisory skills: Ability to conduct literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, surveys, focus group discussions, market assessments, and other research, and synthesise findings into actionable advisory outputs.
- Financial products and market development: Exposure to one or more areas such as savings, credit, payments, insurance, MSME finance, or sustainable finance, with an understanding of customer needs, market barriers, and underserved segments.
- Project and stakeholder management: Ability to own defined work streams, coordinate stakeholders, manage timelines and follow-up actions, and maintain effective client and partner relationships.
- Consulting, communication, and storytelling skills: Strong report structuring, presentation, and business-writing skills, with the ability to convert complex analysis into explicit messages. Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is expected.

Experience

- 3+ Years

Job Type

- Full time

Location

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Key Skills

- Digital financial services
- Payments
- microfinance
- sustainable finance

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