Cost Accountant, FIN

The Cost Accountant supports financial sustainability initiatives at ICAO, focusing on service costing and cost recovery policy implementation. The role involves detailed costing analyses, business process assessments, budgeting, financial analysis, and providing technical advice on cost recovery practices.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains service costings and schedules of rates and fees to support the implementation of ICAO's Cost Recovery Framework.
• Performs detailed costing analyses for services and activities subject to cost recovery using ICAO's approved costing methodology and cost model.
• Collects, validates and analyses financial and operational data to support service costing exercises.
• Calculates and maintains standard costs, rates and fees for cost recovery services and prepares supporting documentation.
• Reviews cost allocations, cost drivers and costing assumptions to ensure accuracy and consistency of service costings.
• Conducts consultations with service providers and stakeholders to review and validate service costings and charging approaches.
• Maintains schedules of rates and fees and supporting calculations reflecting changes in costs and service delivery models.
• Conducts detailed costing exercises to establish and maintain baseline costs and support cost recovery and cost management initiatives.
• Analyzes business processes, data availability and system requirements to operationalize cost recovery processes.
• Assesses availability, quality and completeness of financial and operational data for cost recovery calculations and billing.
• Conducts gap analyses to identify missing or unreliable data for cost recovery services.
• Analyzes existing business processes, financial procedures and system capabilities for operationalizing cost recovery.
• Documents business, functional and data requirements to support cost recovery within ERP and related systems.
• Liaises with ICT teams, system specialists and stakeholders to identify data sources and support implementation.
• Develops cost recovery budgets, forecasts and financial analyses to support budget processes and planning.
• Calculates and maintains indirect cost recovery rates, allocation methodologies and parameters.
• Analyzes financial and operational data to assess cost recovery performance and identify variances.
• Conducts detailed cost analyses to support efficiency and effectiveness initiatives.
• Prepares working papers, financial schedules, reports and supporting analyses for management and stakeholders.
• Maintains documentation supporting budget assumptions, costing methodologies and rate calculations.
• Provides technical advice and support on service costing, cost accounting and cost recovery methodologies.
• Develops and maintains costing templates, procedures, user guides and reference materials.
• Delivers training sessions and workshops on cost recovery processes and costing methodologies.
• Responds to stakeholder enquiries and provides guidance on cost recovery policies and procedures.
• Identifies opportunities to improve costing processes, tools and documentation.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• An advanced-level university degree (Master’s degree or academic equivalent) in accounting, finance, business administration or related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience in accounting and finance may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A professional accounting designation (e.g. CA, CPA, CGA, CMA, or equivalent).
• Courses or certifications in cost accounting (desirable).
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in financial management, accounting, budget, or related area.
• Experience in determining product costs and prices using cost accounting methodology.
• Experience in drafting procedures, and documenting process flows.
• Experience with process reviews, systems implementation activities, documentation and financial internal controls.
• Expert-level experience with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with UN system financial regulations, rules and practices.
• Experience with cost recovery at a large, international organization.
• Fluent reading, writing and speaking abilities in English.
• A working knowledge of any other language of the Organization (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is desirable.

Skills

• Cost Accounting
• Finance Management
• Budgeting
• Cost Recovery
• Process Documentation
• Process Review
• System Implementation
• Financial Internal Control
• MS Excel
• UN Financial Rules
• Product Costing
• Price Determination
• Requirements Drafting
• Financial Analysis
• Technical Advice on Cost Recovery

Languages

English