Finance and Budget Officer

The Finance and Budget Officer position is located within the Common Administrative Platform at United Nations Headquarters, providing administrative and operational financial support to various UN departments and missions. The role involves budget preparation, administration, monitoring, and reporting to ensure effective financial operations and compliance with UN policies.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and analyses data with respect to the finalization of cost estimates and budget proposals for staff and non-staff requirements from the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations.
• Provides support to managers with respect to the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
• Reviews, analyses and provides input into finalization of programme budget/financial implications to the Security Council statements in light of additional mandates.
• Provides substantive support to senior management with respect to their participation in intergovernmental and expert bodies’ budget review meetings; assists in securing approval from the General Assembly.
• Contributes to the preparation of background materials and supplementary information; drafts and coordinates responses to queries from legislative and oversight bodies.
• Monitors allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
• Monitors budget implementation and determines/recommends reallocation of funds when necessary.
• Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
• Reviews all requisitions generated by the Umoja system for goods and services to ensure correct objects of expenditure have been charged, ensuring availability of funds.
• Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
• Prepares relevant documentation with respect to budget performance submissions.
• Reviews and makes appropriate recommendations with respect to the finalization of budget performance reports, analysing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
• Provides substantive support to intergovernmental and legislative bodies.
• Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines related to budgets and extra-budgetary resources, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and UN policies and procedures.
• Monitors and supervises the work of subordinate staff as required.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is an advantage.
• Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), or equivalent is desirable.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in finance, budget, accounting or related area is required.
• Experience in budget development and financial management in the United Nations or a comparable international organization is required.
• Two years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
• Experience in using Advanced Excel Power Query module is required.
• Experience in designing reports using Power BI is required.
• Experience working in a finance team of an Executive Office or a similar administrative office in the United Nations or a comparable international organization is required.
• Experience working with a budget formulation module of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system such as Umoja BPC as well as financial reporting modules such as Umoja Analytics is required.
• English language proficiency at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Skills

• Budget Development
• Finance Management
• Accounting
• Data Analytics
• Business Analytics
• Advanced Excel Power Query
• Power BI
• ERP Budget Formulation
• ERP Financial Accounting
• Umoja BPC
• Umoja Analytics
• Finance Team Collaboration
• Budget Monitoring
• Financial Reporting
• Certified Public Accountant
• Chartered Accountant

Languages

English