Senior Finance and Budget Assistant (Temporary Job Opening)

The Senior Finance & Budget Assistant supports budget preparation, review, and monitoring within the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance. The role involves acting as Certifying Officer, analyzing budget proposals, monitoring expenditures, and providing guidance to staff, ensuring compliance with UN financial regulations and policies.

Responsibilities

• Acts as Certifying Officers on behalf of and in the absence of programme managers at offices outside headquarters.
• Undertakes reviews, analyses and preparation of the programme plan and its revisions.
• Reviews, analyses and assists in the finalization of cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements, including programmatic aspects; ensures compliance with the programme plan and other legislative mandates.
• Assists managers in the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
• Undertakes research and provides support to higher level Finance & Budget Officers with respect to budget reviews of relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies.
• Provides input into the preparation of allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
• Monitors budget implementation/expenditures and recommends reallocation of funds as necessary.
• Reviews requisitions for goods and services to ensure (a) correct objects of expenditure have been charged, and (b) availability of funds.
• Monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
• Assists in the preparation of budget performance submissions.
• Assists in finalization of budget performance reports, analysing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
• Monitors integrity of various financial databases.
• Verifies accuracy of input data, ensuring consistency of data in previous allotments to new allotments issued.
• Coordinates with other finance and budget staff on related issues during preparation of budget reports.
• Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to programme and/or peacekeeping budgets, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures.
• Drafts or prepares correspondence to respond to enquiries in respect to relevant financial and budget matters.
• Provides guidance, training and daily supervision to other general service staff in the area of responsibility.
• Assists with the collection and analysis of data as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning and decision making.
• Assists with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in finance, budget, accounting, administrative services or related area is required.
• The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced to eight (8) years for candidates who possess a first-level university degree or higher.
• One year or more of experience in data analytics or related area is required.
• Experience in contributing to the design, testing and implementation of system enhancements is required.
• At least 3 years of experience in preparing results-based budgets in a large international setting is desirable.
• Experience in summarizing and presenting information from large data sets in an accessible, attractive and simple manner is desirable.
• Experience in providing direct support on budgetary issues to intergovernmental and expert bodies is desirable.

Skills

• Budget Preparation
• Budget Monitoring
• Financial Analysis
• Accounting
• Administrative Services
• Data Analytics
• System Enhancement Testing
• Performance-Based Budgeting
• Budget Compliance
• Financial Regulations
• Budget Proposal Analysis
• Expenditure Monitoring
• Financial Reporting

Languages

English