Overview
The Finance Associate works collaboratively within the GSSC Finance Service Delivery Teams with a client-oriented approach, ensuring administration and implementation of operational finance strategies, processes, and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensures administration and implementation of operational finance strategies, processes and procedures.
- Provides accounting and administrative support to the Finance Unit.
- Ensures proper cash management.
- Ensures quality assurance and compliance with regulations and rules, best practice and guidance.
Required Experience
- Minimum 6 years (with secondary school education) or 3 years (with a Bachelors’ degree) of relevant experience in finance at the national or international level is required.
- Knowledge of IPSAS and/or IFRS is required.
- Experience in the usage of computers and MS Office packages.
- Advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
- Experience in providing administrative support is desired.
- Hands-on experience with Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), preferably with PeopleSoft/Oracle is desired.
Qualifications
- Secondary Education is required, OR A University degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Finance or Accounting will be given due consideration but not a requirement.
- Fully Qualified Accountant, from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy or Full Completion of the UNDP Finance Training and Certification Programme (FTCP).
- No UNDP Accountancy and Finance Test (AFT) required.
- Candidates with no professional accountancy qualifications, but with degrees that major in accountancy and/or finance must complete UNDP Finance Training and Certification Programme (FTCP), if recruited.
- Candidates with no professional accountancy qualifications but with relevant experience must successfully undertake UNDP Accountancy and Finance Test (AFT) before shortlisting, and must complete the UNDP Finance Training and Certification Programme (FTCP), if recruited.
