Finance Officer - Payroll and Staff Payment

The Finance Officer - Payroll and Staff Payment is responsible for coordinating and providing finance, budget, and administration support services to ensure efficient functioning of support services and inform decision-making. The role manages payroll, staff payments, and related financial transactions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance within the Yemen Country Office.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and provide finance, budget and administration support services involving the recording and interpretation of financial and budgetary information to ensure the efficient functioning of the support services and inform decision-making.
• Manage payroll, and related payments including salary, entitlements, indemnity and travel.
• Manage payments to families or beneficiaries of detained staff and other sensitive transactions.
• Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of staff related financial transactions, including timely record and clearing of payables and receivables in relation to individual staff and payroll relevant stakeholders such as UNDP.
• Oversight, keep track and maintain up-to-date delegation of financial authority.
• Support financial closure, required reconciliation and staff relevant write-off transactions.
• Report on key data for financial status and outcomes of projects assigned in accordance with corporate governance requirements, cost to serve to beneficiaries, ensuring accuracy, deadlines, and accounting processes are complied with.
• Track and collate data to support others to improve policies, systems and procedures in order to minimize financial risks, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations, and ensure services are aligned with business objectives.
• Contribute to the delivery of financial controls and insight into WFP performance, supporting periodic risk and internal control assessments to identify areas which may present potential audit, compliance or financial risks.
• Compile data from the WFP database and systems and provide analysis in monthly basis.
• Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analysis and queries.
• Represent unit/CO at internal meetings, external meetings and events with other UN agencies, banks and other financial institutions, or other partners and entities as required.
• Fill in capacity gaps in any stream of Finance function.

Requirements

• University degree in Accounting or Finance or relevant fields, Advanced University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields, or First University degree in the same subject(s) with additional years of related work experience plus membership in an international recognized professional accountancy body such as Association of Chartered, Certified Accountants (ACCA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Institute of Certified Public Accounts (ICPA) or equivalent.
• Total relevant 5 years of experience including 1 year of Professional experience.
• UN experience in working in the finance, project management, in humanitarian and development context are preferrable.
• Languages: English-Arabic.

Skills

• Payroll Management
• Staff Payment Processing
• Financial Transactions
• Budget Support Services
• Accounting
• Finance
• Project Management
• Compliance Monitoring
• Financial Reporting
• Use of Accounting Standards
• Membership in Professional Accountancy Body
• Humanitarian Financing
• Development Finance

Languages

English, Arabic