Overview
Manages and oversees financial resources allocated to NATO 2030 CB Implementation Plan, including planning, monitoring, and reporting on fund utilization.
Key Responsibilities
- - Develops Branch budget estimates, Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP) and Consolidated Resource Proposal (CRP).
- - Acts as Budget Execution Officer/Fund Manager for execution of all budgets.
- - Summarizes budgetary data and identifies trends and deviations.
- - Presents analyzed information and potential courses of action.
- - Maintains all budget files in accordance with NFRs, FRPs, Resource Committees decisions and ACO directives.
- - Enforces financial aspects of Memorandums of Understanding, ACO Directives, and other guiding documents.
- - Serves as the primary point of contact for subsidised PNs regarding reimbursement of costs.
- - Acts as the primary financial advisor to ACOS J9, MPB BH and MPB Staff.
- - Supports capacity building initiatives, identifying bottlenecks and gaps.
- - Initiates and supervises the drafting of Section point papers, reports, policy guidelines, MoUs, statements, presentations.
- - Contributes to the development of MPB Branch policies and related documentation.
- - Provides support to Section project teams or inter-agency working groups.
- - Supervises and participates as trainer/resource person in Section seminars, workshops and outreach events.
- - Manages the MPB budget, ensuring proper use and spending of funds.
Required Experience
- - Experience in financial related activities such as budgeting and executing, finance and accounting to include International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS), automatic financial management systems.
- - Professional experience in fiscal and accounting operations.
- - Extensive experience in the management of the formulation, structuring and execution of budgets.
- - Broad experiential background in Fund Management related areas.
- - Significant prior experience in one or more of the following roles: Fund Manager, Financial Resource Management, Budget Analyst.
- - Experience in chairing meetings, conducting briefings and drafting reports.
- - High level of organisational, coordination and communication skills required.
- - Experience as Budget Officer in NATO or other international or national organization (desirable).
- - Experience with NATO Automated Financial System (FinS) and/or Oracle Financials (desirable).
- - Experience as manager or team leader; management experience or successful prior tours in financial functions; minimum of 4 years' successful performance in a related field in a management position which must include at least 1 year of supervisory duties (desirable).
- - Previous practical experience in international, preferably NATO, budgeting and financial management (desirable).
- - Background in NATO Command Structure and familiarization with NATO Financial Management processes (desirable).
- - Hands-on experience with automated financial system(s) (desirable).
- - Previous working experience in CIMIC/Military Cooperation Area (desirable).
- - Working experience with International Organisations and/or Non-Governmental Organisations (desirable).
- - Experience working with multinational teams and partnerships (desirable).
- - Proven working experience in NATO environment, Joint or Combined HQ (desirable).
- - Proven participation in NATO missions/operations/exercises (desirable).
Qualifications
- University Degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration or related discipline and 2 years function related experience, OR Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
