Overview
The Associate Finance Officer will be responsible for the financial management of projects within the Humanitarian Financing Unit, ensuring compliance with guidelines and supporting partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain country SOPs regarding administrative and financial workflows of humanitarian financing HF.
- Ensure financial revision of project applications and project budgets for quality control and compliance.
- Provide guidance on Humanitarian Financing and administrative procedures and guidelines to partners.
- Conduct market cost survey for items commonly purchased under Humanitarian Financing projects.
- Review project budgets to determine “normal costs and variations” in project expenditure areas.
- Review requests for project amendments and revisions of projects and provide recommendations.
- Track, collect and review final financial reports from relevant recipient organizations.
- Liaise with auditors for project audits and review audit reports.
- Develop, maintain, and update a database to support cost effectiveness analysis.
- Prepare and update numerical and narrative reports detailing Humanitarian Financing performance.
- Reconcile and coordinate HQ-level records and the Fund’s field records.
- Support monitoring and evaluation visits to project sites.
- Conduct Financial and administrative partner visits.
- Maintain all related files updated and share information with colleagues.
- Perform other duties as required.
Required Experience
- Master's degree holder, requires at least two (2) years of progressively responsible experience in finance, administration, budget, business administration, or related areas in an international setting is required.
- For first level degree holders, four (4) years of qualifying experience in finance, administration, budget, business administration or related area in an international setting is required.
- Experience in the use and application of IPSAS in a working environment is desirable.
- Experience in advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Power BI is required.
- Experience in data analysis and management is required.
- Experience using ERP systems such as SAP is required.
- Experience working in a shared service center providing services to national and international clients is desirable.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree (Master’s, or equivalent) in business administration, finance or related field is required or,
- A first-level degree (bachelor's degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance or related field with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
