Overview
The Budget Officer advises senior management on financial management, develops and implements budgetary policies, coordinates budget formulation, and monitors budget implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Advises and supports senior management in overall financial management.
- Analyses and presents financial implications of business scenarios.
- Establishes and applies budgetary and related accounting policy-level procedures.
- Provides guidance on budgeting standards, costing methodologies, resource projections, variance analysis, and performance reporting.
- Develops and implements financial control procedures.
- Coordinates and leads the budget development process.
- Prepares the draft administrative budget.
- Supports programme managers in formulating draft budgets and financial performance reports.
- Analyses departmental budget submissions.
- Prepares consolidated budget proposals and performance reports.
- Prepares supplementary analytical information to support budget justification.
- Facilitates deliberations of governing bodies on planning, programming, budgeting, and accounting matters.
- Provides secretariat services to the Finance Committee.
- Monitors budget implementation, cost drivers, and financial projections.
- Prepares comparative and variance analyses.
- Supports programme managers in tracking financial performance.
- Performs treasury functions.
- Notifies members of assessed contributions.
- Enhances budget and financial management systems and processes.
- Ensures alignment of risk management with internal controls.
- Manages unit staff.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in financial management within business administration, public administration, finance and accounting, financial project management or related area is required.
- Experience in budget development and financial administration of resources at the international level is required.
- Experience in the application of Results-Based Management or similar performance management methodologies is required.
- Management level experience in running team(s) of staff working on multiple financial engagements and budgets is required.
- Experience in the use of automated budgeting, costing and financial modelling is required.
- Work experience with large international level dynamic trust funds, technical assistance projects and voluntary contributions management is desirable.
- Experience in working with inter-governmental bodies is desirable.
- Experience in the use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, public administration, finance, accounting or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in related fields in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
