Overview
This consultancy involves contributing to effective budget formulation, implementation, monitoring, project administration, and risk management within the Climate Change Division. The role requires accurate preparation of financial reports and liaison with internal and external parties.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor budgetary commitments and evaluate financial implementation trends.
- Review and appraise submissions for substantive programmes and projects.
- Establish monitoring systems through reporting, meetings, and missions.
- Research, compile, analyse, summarize, and present project portfolio data.
- Track resolutions affecting programme/project content and maintain relevant databases.
- Prepare monitoring checklists for programme/project development.
- Maintain and establish specific information products for the unit.
- Maintain data governance and accuracy.
- Maintain data management tools in the unit.
- Supervise and train general service staff.
- Assist with data collection, analysis, and preparation of presentations and reports.
- Assist with visualizations and updating information material.
- Provide financial information for oversight queries.
- Provide technical advisory inputs on WBSE creation and Umoja-IPMR alignment.
- Review GEF Co-management reports and escalate variances.
- Participate in GFMTS data and process improvement working groups.
- Conduct review for clearance of annual audit reports for GFMTS portfolios.
- Conduct review for clearance of annual project inventory reports for GFMTS portfolios.
- Incorporate GFMTS Annual Projections into the Finance Dashboard.
- Lead on Project closures for MSP FSP Portfolios and support the EA portfolio.
- Support the design, development, and maintenance of the task pooling system.
- Perform any other duty as may be assigned.
Required Experience
- Minimum five years of experience in Project Administration, Finance and Budgeting is required;
- Experience in information management, database systems and use of power BI is required;
- Experience working with Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) such as Systems Applications and Products (SAP) specifically on Grantor and Fund Management Modules and Business Intelligence (BI) reporting is required;
- Experience in budget planning, analysis and monitoring is required
- Experience working with GEF projects is required;
- A minimum of one (1) year or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Administration, Accounts, finance or related field is desirable is required;
- A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) or Equivalent is required
- Certification in Microsoft Data Analysis is required.
- Certification in Advanced Financial modelling is required.
