Assistant Manager

Join us as an Assistant Manager and revolutionise banking, microfinance, MFS, FinTech, and the financial services and payments 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!

• 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.
  

• 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 MSC's 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 MSC's inclusive finance advisory portfolio in Bangladesh.
  
  
  

Requirements

Educational qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in economics, finance, business, public administration, development studies, social sciences, or a related field.
  
• 5 years of relevant experience in consulting or advisory, financial services, development programs, research, or a related field, with exposure to financial inclusion or inclusive finance.
  

• Exposure to one or more areas of the inclusive finance ecosystem, such as banking and microfinance, digital financial services and payments, sustainable finance, product and market development, or ecosystem development.
  
• Experience delivering projects or defined workstreams, including planning activities, coordinating stakeholders, managing timelines, and producing high-quality deliverables.
  
• Strong primary and secondary research experience, with the ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information and translate evidence into practical recommendations.
  
• Experience working with financial institutions, development partners, government or regulatory stakeholders, private-sector actors, or other ecosystem participants in Bangladesh is preferred. Regulatory familiarity is an added advantage.