Overview
The Finance Assistant provides financial services ensuring high quality, accuracy, and consistency of work, promoting a client-oriented approach consistent with UNDP rules and regulations.
Key Responsibilities
- Support implementation of operational strategies ensuring full compliance of financial processes and financial records with UNDP POPP and strategies.
- Provide input to the Finance unit and office management in preparing and reviewing CO business processes mapping and elaboration of the content of internal standard operating procedures in finance.
- Support functioning of the optimal cost-recovery system by providing inputs for preparation of cost-recovery in Quantum and follow up.
- Provide accounting and administrative support to the Finance unit, including control of supporting documents, preparation of invoices, maintaining filing systems, managing internal expenditures control system, providing information on financial resources status, taking corrective actions on unposted invoices, managing cash receipts and petty cash, and managing bank reconciliation.
- Ensure proper functioning of CO cash and Treasury management systems, serving as alternate for timely review of cash position and maintaining liquidity levels.
- Identify and record receipts and create deposits for revenue application on a timely basis.
- Support knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the CO by participating in training and providing contributions to knowledge networks.
Required Experience
- 1 year of progressively responsible finance and accounting experience at the national or international level is required.
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advanced knowledge of spreadsheets and web-based management systems such as ERP financials and database packages.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting ou tout autre domaines y relatifs
