Overview
The Finance Specialist provides specialized technical expertise and serves as a Subject Matter Expert on payroll accounting, offering technical oversight, monitoring, and analysis of payroll expenses and related balance sheet accounts.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish effective payroll finance oversight and policy implementation, including reviewing and maintaining payroll-related financial policies, procedures, and accounting treatments, and assessing and strengthening the payroll control environment.
- Contribute to the preparation of IPSAS-compliant financial statements and other corporate financial reports.
- Establish payroll controls to comply with the Statement of Internal Control over Financial Reporting (SICFR).
- Perform payroll finance oversight and analytical functions, including designing, implementing, and maintaining a monitoring strategy for payroll-related General Ledger (GL) accounts.
- Establish risk-informed financial policies and procedures.
- Support internal and external audit and assurance processes.
- Ensure facilitation of knowledge building and sharing.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years (with master´s degree) or 7 years (with bachelor´s degree) of experience in financial management, accounting or auditing.
- Experience conforming to IPSAS/IFRS and full accrual accounting conventions.
- Experience with ERP financial systems is required (preferably Oracle).
- Strong analytical and report-writing skills with a proven track record.
- Demonstrated experience in AI, digital transformation, and process automation and demonstrated ability explore and apply new technologies.
- Experience as a collaborative team player with flexibility to work across global time zones.
- Audit experience (internal and/or external) is an asset.
- Experience with project costing and time and labour distribution and timecards would be an asset.
- Experience in working with actuaries and actuarial reports would be an asset.
- Experience working in the UN system would be an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Finance or Accounting, and/or a professional accounting qualification from an accredited institute of accountancy is required. Or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
