Overview
Review and analyse cost estimates and budget proposals, monitor budget implementation, and provide support to managers with respect to resource requirements for budget submissions.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and analyse cost estimates and budget proposals and monitor budget implementation.
- Provide support to managers with respect to the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
- Analyse divisional budget submissions, ensure compliance with legislative mandates and provide input into finalization of budget proposals and performance report.
- Prepare supplementary and other analytical information that allow FRMS to effectively justify budget and performance reports to the General Assembly budget review organs and UNODC governing bodies.
- Analyse and present financial implications on business scenarios and resolutions of the General Assembly and UNODC governing bodies.
- Analyse, recommend and issue spending authority (allotments) and monitor implementation to ensure that expenditures remain within authorized limits.
- Continuously monitor budget implementation, cost drivers, financial projections and prepare comparative and variance analysis.
- Prepare regular financial monitoring reports with particular emphasis on project implementation and financial risks.
- Provide advice and guidance, as required, to all stakeholders on budgetary and financial policies and procedures, including results-based budgeting, and with particular emphasis on the use of voluntarily funded budgets.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
- Keep up-to-date on documents/ reports/ guidelines/ issues that have a bearing on matters related to the budgets of UNODC, as appropriate, ensuring compliance with inter-governmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures.
- Draft reports for inter-governmental bodies and for management on budgetary issues, and other correspondence.
- Undertake research and analysis of budgetary policies and procedures, make recommendations for changes and/or modifications and propose solutions to issues.
- Collect and analyze data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
- Perform other work-related duties, as assigned.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five 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.
- Three years of 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 desirable.
- Experience in the use of automated budgeting, costing and financial modelling is required.
- Experience in the use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems is desirable.
- Experience with SAP/Umoja is desirable.
- Work experience with large international level dynamic trust funds, technical assistance projects and voluntary contributions management is desirable.
- Experience in data analytics or related area 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 similar fields with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- An accounting qualification by an internationally recognized accounting body such as Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Association of Chartered Accountants (ACA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) is required.
