Overview
The Budget and Programming Associate will support specialized assistance activities for efficient planning, monitoring, and analysis of project financial performance to optimize financial resource utilization.
Key Responsibilities
- Examine budget proposals, monitor and analyze project financial performance, and make recommendations.
- Provide in-depth analysis of fund balances and contributions, highlighting surpluses and deficits, and propose corrective actions.
- Assist in managing supply chains for efficient monitoring, addressing stock-outs, and maximizing operational efficiency.
- Assist in monitoring the resource pipeline to maximize operational efficiency.
- Contribute to the improvement of internal procedures and systems and the design of tools for planning, expenditure forecasting, budget management, and resource utilization monitoring.
- Enter forecast budgets and budget revisions into internal systems.
- Review, consolidate, and analyze data, manage records and files accurately, and prepare periodic and ad hoc reports.
- Liaise with stakeholders on project fund management issues and related procedures.
- Provide guidance to other support staff and contribute to their learning and development in budget planning, fund management, and operational planning.
- Apply standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP can respond quickly and deploy necessary resources.
- Perform any other tasks required by the supervisor.
Required Experience
- Experience in budget preparation and management.
- Experience in preparing analytical reports required for decision-making.
- Experience in monitoring budgets/resource plans/pipelines/supply chains.
- Experience in handling budget/fund allocation issues within the WFP budget system or a similar humanitarian organization's budget system.
- Experience in internal control and compliance measures.
Qualifications
- A university degree (Bachelor's) in business administration, finance, economics, or other relevant fields.
- The academic level can be substituted by a first university degree with an additional 3 years of professional experience in financial analysis or operational budgets.
- Good knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
