Overview
The Finance Senior Analyst will provide crucial support to HQ finance functions, focusing on grants advances and liquidation, inventory monitoring, and financial oversight. The role supports IPSAS specialists and contributes to maintaining financial integrity and compliance within UNOPS.
Key Responsibilities
- Review reconciliation submissions and account balances for compliance with UNOPS Financial Rules and Regulations.
- Coordinate and follow up with related parties and prepare issue reports for escalation.
- Support in quarterly and year-end financial closure processes.
- Review, monitor and consolidate UNOPS provision for bad debts, write off and contingent assets/liabilities.
- Review finance data in General Ledger for completeness, accuracy, and correctness of accounting entries.
- Exercise periodic monitoring and oversight on transactions and account balances.
- Contribute to developing and maintaining a strong control environment around financial reporting.
- Maintain a log of issues identified, collect and update data to consolidate and complete the issue log.
- Raise or review transactions in UNOPS ERP and any other cross functional support as needed.
- Support audit readiness initiatives by reviewing and validating financial information.
- Support in continuously improving and refining UNOPS financial processes.
- Support process documentation and continuous improvements in the corporate system.
- Maintain a log of issues identified, analyze data based on lessons learned and related dashboards.
- Support in implementation of new systems and ERP (OneUNOPS).
- Contribute to the preparation of training materials in accordance with IPSAS standards and UNOPS Financial Rules & Regulations and deliver training sessions.
- Conduct research and analysis to support the development of IPSAS-compliant accounting guidance and financial procedures.
- Analyze the impact of new IPSAS standards and assist senior specialists in implementation activities.
- Assist in documenting procedures, SOPs and guidance developed by senior accounting specialists.
- Gather, compile and analyze financial and operational data to support the IPSAS Specialist.
- Contribute background research, benchmarking and supporting documentation for technical accounting papers and position papers.
- Provide support to the audit focal person during internal and external audit processes.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience is defined as experience in finance and accounting.
- Experience with IPSAS or IFRS accounting standards.
- Desired: Experience working in a UN organization.
- Desired: Knowledge of IPSAS 47 & 48.
- Desired: Experience with OneUNOPS.
- Desired: Experience with grants management and accounting.
- Desired: Experience with inventory monitoring and control.
Qualifications
• Required: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, with 4 years of relevant experience OR A master's degree (or equivalent) in any of the above disciplines with 2 years of relevant experience.
