Associate Manager – Public Finance Management

Location: Bhubaneshwar, Duration: 2 year contract

Area of Work : City Finance

The PFM team at Janaagraha strongly believes that improved public finance and accountability systems are critical for India’s Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to improve governance, ensure better planning and spending of resources, and consequently provide improved urban infrastructure and services. Our work includes both advisory to the Government and action-oriented research to inform the public finance discourse in the urban governance context. The team works with central government, state governments as well as city governments to support policy and implementation reforms.

A select example of some our recent work includes:

• At the union level, we have informed 15th FC’s recommendations to ULBs and developed the city-finance website which is national platform for standardised, timely and credible financial information on cities of India and also acts as system for administering 15th FC’s grants for ULBs.
• At the state level, we are working with the HUDD (Housing and Urban Development Department) in Odisha to improve inter-governmental fiscal transfers, fund flow mechanisms for select flagship programmes, among other initiatives.
• At the ULB level, we have worked on revenue augmentation, demystifying of municipal budgets and supported reforms in accounting and reporting.

We have recently expanded our advisory support to the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUDD) in Odisha in enabling its vision of improved urban governance. A crucial pillar of this support will be to strengthen public finance systems and processes to enable efficient flow of funds to the ULBs. This will include advisory around resource allocation, strengthening of budget expenditure systems, reporting and accountability mechanisms. To deliver this programme effectively, we are looking to grow the public finance team based in Bhubaneshwar that will work closely across Departments (Finance, HUDD and others) to successfully support the Government in its endeavour of improved public finance systems for better service delivery.

To this end, we are looking to hire highly motivated, passionate and committed professionals to the position of Associate Manager(s) in Bhubaneswar. This is a great opportunity for you to work closely with the Government and other important non-Government stakeholders to improve public finance policies and processes.

As an Associate Manager, you will be responsible for driving systemic public finance reforms by working with a range of stakeholders within and outside of the Government. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the end to end delivery of specific work streams, including monitoring and tracking the progress of programme delivery. We are looking for pro-active and confident individuals who are able to motivate and manage the team effectively. We are keen to have individuals who are innovative problem solvers in a dynamic environment and are able to build and maintain robust relations with the Government and other stakeholders.