Overview
Provides accounting, budget administration, cash management, and financial reporting support to ensure efficient and compliant financial operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Support in the pre-clearing journals (GLJE) recording transactions.
- Ensure timely and proper recording of goods receipt, service delivery and accruals.
- Process and reconcile accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Perform monthly and quarterly account reconciliation.
- Support annual leave monthly accrual processing.
- Ensure timely monthly and yearly closure of accounts and submission of required financial reports.
- Monitor and ensure timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial closure activities by the field office.
- Respond promptly to HQ and Country offices queries.
- Prepare quarterly and year-end submission from the Country offices for VAT, Prepayments, Receipt accruals, Retentions, Prepaid expenses.
- Assist the Finance Specialist - Accounting in the staff separation clearance.
- Assist Country offices in the PO closure process.
- Perform YE receipts accruals validation and cutoff exercise.
- Assist in the preparation of UNOPS census data for yearly actuarial valuation.
- Maintain the Unit’s issues log and liaise with ITG regarding any issues to be solved with the system.
- Prepare reconciliation for petty cash and operational advances.
- Prepare and review ad hoc financial reports and management dashboards.
- Participate in quarterly and annual financial closure activities.
- Support internal and external audit exercises.
- Maintain accurate records of Value Added Tax (VAT), prepayments, operational advances and other balance sheet accounts.
- Analyze and prepare adjusting entries (GLJEs) and ensure accuracy of financial postings across projects.
- Support the organization, facilitation and delivery of training and learning sessions on finance topics.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing initiatives and Communities of Practice (CoPs).
- Conduct research on finance-related topics and contribute to the drafting of reports, summaries and briefing notes.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience is work in accounting, project financial management, budgeting, cash management and financial reporting, balance sheet and general ledger reconciliation or related areas.
- Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.
- Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.
- Experience with financial systems or ERP software is desired.
Qualifications
- Required Secondary school (or equivalent) with 6 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 2 years of relevant experience is required.
- Desired A globally or nationally recognized professional certificate in audit or accounting (e.g CPA, ACCA, CA, CIMA) is desired.
