Finance and Budget Officer (Temporary Job Opening)

The Finance and Budget Officer is responsible for providing advice and support on programme plans, budget preparation, and budget administration within the Office of Programme Planning, Finance and Budget. The role involves ensuring compliance with legislative mandates, managing budget implementation, and supporting intergovernmental bodies in budgetary matters.

Responsibilities

• Provides advice and support to clients on the formulation and implementation of programme plans.
• Reviews, analyses and finalizes the preparation of the Programme Plan and its revisions on the basis of departmental submissions, taking into account recommendations and decisions of specialized intergovernmental bodies.
• Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their review of the Programme Plan and its revisions; secures approval from the General Assembly.
• Ensures legislative mandates are accurately translated into program budgets.
• Reviews, analyses and finalizes cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements as well as programme plans and programme performance from Departments/offices at headquarters and in the field, including programmatic aspects; ensure compliance with the programme plan and other legislative mandates.
• Coordinates, reviews, analyzes and finalizes programme budget in light of additional mandates.
• Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their budget review; assists in securing approval of budgetary proposals from the General Assembly.
• Issues allotments, authorizes sub-allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
• Manages and monitors budget implementation and recommends reallocation of funds as necessary.
• Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
• Reviews and finalizes budget performance reports, analyzing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
• Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies.
• Provides advice and guidance, including training, to headquarters and field staff on budgetary and financial policies and procedures, including results-based budgeting.
• Participates in inter-departmental meetings and/or technical survey missions on matters related to resource requirements, programming and budgetary issues.
• Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to programme budgets, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures.
• Drafts reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on budgetary issues, and correspondence.
• Represents OPPFB or division in inter and intra-departmental meetings.
• May plan, organize, manage and supervise the work of the Service assigned.
• Incumbents may be asked to perform other related duties.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, public administration, finance, economics, statistics, data science, information technology or related field is required.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent) in combination with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of seven years of experience in budgeting, administration, financial management or related field is required.
• At least 4 years of experience with results-based approaches to budgeting in a large international organization, including at least 3 years of experience in preparing reports and presentations on programmatic and budgetary issues for intergovernmental and expert bodies is required.
• Four years of experience using data to inform decisions and strategies, including summarizing and presenting insights from large data sets in a clear, accessible, and visually effective manner, is required.
• Experience with financial systems / finance modules of enterprise resource planning (ERP) such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft is required.
• Experience in the simplification of business processes and procedures, including through automation is desirable.
• English is required at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• French is desirable at UN Level I for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Skills

• Budget Preparation
• Finance Management
• Performance-Based Budgeting
• Programmatic Reporting
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• ERP Financial Accounting
• Oracle
• SAP
• PeopleSoft
• Business Process Simplification
• Budget Administration
• Report Writing
• Presentation Skills

Languages

English, French