Overview
Responsible for all budgetary and financial management operations of the JATEC, ensuring adherence to sound financial management principles and providing advice on financial matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides financial support within delegated financial authority.
- Serves as financial management advisor to the Director JATEC.
- Manages the personnel and activities of the Office of Budget and Finance.
- Provides day-to-day oversight for all financial management operations, including budgeting, purchasing, contracting, accounting, cash management, treasury, travel, and auditing.
- Validates and authorizes financial transactions.
- Maintains proper fiscal and procurement accounting records.
- Monitors and controls fund execution.
- Conducts period-end closure and reconciliation of accounts.
- Identifies and manages financial risks.
- Prepares JATEC inputs to the Common Funded Resource Plan, budget estimates, and periodic execution reports.
- Prepares JATEC budgets for HQ SACT review and presents them to the Budget Committee.
- Prepares budgetary forecasts, monitors, executes, and accounts for appropriated budgets.
- Provides budgetary and managerial accounting reports.
- Oversees JATEC procurement activities and chairs the Contract Awards Committee.
- Provides a travel office service.
- Ensures internal review activities and supports ACT Auditor activities.
- Ensures financial control and viability of non-appropriated funds.
- Ensures correct application of rules and regulations governing tax exemptions and customs clearance.
- Legally accountable for obligations resulting from contracts and other financial arrangements.
Required Experience
- Four years’ experience exercising supervision, direction, and control over staff engaged in financial administration functions.
- Four years’ experience in financial management function including planning, programming, budgeting and executing resource allocations.
- Four years’ experience in working with international accounting and auditing standards and knowledge of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS).
- Two years’ experience in public accounting, banking or funds management.
- Two years’ experience in using a computerized financial ERP system (e.g. SAP, Oracle EBS) and MS Office package.
- Proven experience and ability to make oral presentation to an international audience.
- Working knowledge of at least one risk management framework.
- Experience in international organization financial operations (desirable).
- Practical knowledge of multinational organization missions, functions, and operations (desirable).
- Experience with ORACLE Financials or other ERP system (desirable).
- Working knowledge of the Balanced Scorecard management system (desirable).
- Experience in purchasing and contracting (desirable).
- Working Knowledge of the PRINCE 2 Project Management System (desirable).
- Formal training in International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) (desirable).
- Formal Project Management certification (desirable).
- Formal Risk Management certification (desirable).
Qualifications
- University Degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration or related discipline, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation.
- Master of Science in Business Administration, or similar (desirable).
