Overview
The Finance Associate provides support in the preparation of financial statements, financial oversight and monitoring, financial transaction processing, and capacity building/system improvement. The incumbent contributes to ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of financial reporting in accordance with UNOPS Financial Rules and Regulations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide support in the preparation of interim and year-end corporate financial statements, supporting schedules and notes.
- Support in preparation of data consolidation and preparation of working files and tables for financial statements.
- Provide support to the audit focal person during audits.
- Assist in maintaining log off on both Internal and External audit recommendations.
- Coordinate and monitor quarterly and year-end financial closure processes.
- Review reconciliation submissions and account balances.
- Perform working files and analysis of data in General Ledger (GL).
- Communicate with internal stakeholders on areas requiring verification, corrections, or additional information.
- Review of finance data in General Ledger for completeness, accuracy, and correctness.
- Exercise periodic monitoring and oversight on transactions and account balances.
- Contribute to developing and maintaining a strong control environment around financial reporting.
- Support maintenance a log of issues identified, collect and update data to consolidate and complete the issue log.
- Support in reviewing financial transactions related to grants advances and expenses.
- Assist in reviewing data for Inventory submission before processing transactions.
- Raise transactions in UNOPS ERP as and when needed.
- Support process documentation and continuous improvements in the corporate system (PQMS).
- Become a subject matter expert for the Financial Reporting requirements in the UNOPS ERP system (OneUNOPS).
- Contribute to the development of innovative solutions to optimize financial processes and reduce manual work.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in finance and accounting.
- Experience with financial statement preparation.
- Experience with general ledger accounting.
- Experience with audit support.
- Experience with ERP systems is required.
- Experience with OneUNOPS is desirable.
- Experience working in an international organization or the UN system is an asset.
Qualifications
- Required Secondary school diploma (or equivalent) is required.
- Desired A university degree (Bachelor or Master’s), or equivalent in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field is desired.
- Professional accounting certification (e.g., CPA, ACCA) is an asset.
