Overview
The Finance and Budget Officer will be responsible for budget preparation and administration, including reviewing and analyzing cost estimates, monitoring allotments, and preparing budget performance reports.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews and analyses data with respect to the finalization of cost estimates and budget proposals.
- Provides support to managers with respect to the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
- Reviews, analyses and provides input into finalization of programme budget/financial implications.
- Provides substantive support to senior management with respect to their participation in budget review meetings.
- Contributes to the preparation of background materials and supplementary information.
- Drafts and coordinates responses to queries from legislative and oversight bodies.
- Monitors allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
- Monitors budget implementation and determines/recommends reallocation of funds when necessary.
- Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
- Reviews all requisitions generated by the Umoja system for goods and services to ensure correct objects of expenditure have been charged, ensuring availability of funds.
- Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
- Prepares relevant documentation with respect to budget performance submissions.
- Reviews and makes appropriate recommendations with respect to the finalization of budget performance reports, analysing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
- Provides substantive support to intergovernmental and legislative bodies.
- Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to budgets and extra-budgetary resources.
- Monitors and supervises the work of subordinate staff as required.
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods.
- Performs other related duties, as assigned.
Required Experience
A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in finance, budget, accounting or related area is required. Experience in budget development and financial management in the United Nations or a comparable international organization is required. Experience in using Advanced Excel Power Query module is required. Experience in designing reports using Power BI is required. Experience working in a finance team of an Executive Office or a similar administrative office in the United Nations or a comparable international organization is required. Experience working with a budget formulation module of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system such as Umoja BPC as well as financial reporting modules such as Umoja Analytics is required.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is an advantage. Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), or equivalent is desirable.
