Finance Assistant

The Finance Assistant undertakes finance-related support activities of medium complexity ensuring quality, transparency and consistency of processes. The role requires in-depth knowledge and interpretation of financial policies, procedures and practices and provides procedural guidance to other staff as needed.

Responsibilities

• Review source documents for completeness, accuracy and validity.
• Extract details of transactions from the integrated financial system to analyse and verify.
• Investigate errors, take corrective actions; perform reviews and ensure proper clearance procedures.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by participating in testing and implementation of new financial process automations.
• Assist in monitoring transactions, ensure ex-ante or post-factum due diligence is performed.
• Prepare worksheets and assist in preparation of reports by compiling and consolidating data from various sources.
• Draft and prepare correspondence and respond to queries.
• Evaluate ongoing financial support requirements, adapt service provision to meet changing needs and solve operational problems as required.
• Provide procedural guidance to staff, guide and train junior finance support staff.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Secondary School Education.
• Four years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, cash management and/or asset management related support work.
• Working knowledge (proficiency - level C) of English.
• Very good knowledge of MS Office applications, Internet and office technology equipment.
• General Service Staff are recruited locally; candidates must be nationals of Hungary or possess an existing visa/work permit and reside within commuting distance of Budapest at the time of application.
• Good knowledge of financial rules and regulations, accounting policies and practices to ensure processing controls are strictly adhered to.
• Good knowledge of the processing and approval process of a variety of transactions ensuring audit requirements are maintained regarding supporting document retention, adherence to rules, accuracy and overall completeness.
• Thorough knowledge of communication and documentation standards.
• Experience with integrated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems (Oracle) is desirable.
• Intermediate knowledge (intermediate proficiency - level B) of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is desirable.
• Experience in Shared Services Centre work environment is desirable.

Skills

• Finance Support
• Accounting Support
• Cash management
• Asset Management
• Financial Rules Knowledge
• Accounting Policies Development
• Transaction Processing
• Audit Compliance
• Document Retention
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Internet Technology
• Office technology equipment
• ERP Systems
• Oracle
• Communication standards
• Documentation standards

Languages

English