FAO is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Responsibilities

• Maintain financial records and monitoring systems for the office
• Maintain imprest accounts, reconcile expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other data for day-to-day transactions and reports
• Manage the country office petty cash, and monitor project and programme accounts
• Retrieve, enter, select and analyse data from a wide variety of sources, including FAO’s corporate systems and data bases, and verify accuracy of data documents
• Verify availability of funds under all programmes, ensuring operational expenditures are in accordance with approved budgets and all committing documents are complete and consistent
• Prepare correspondence of administrative and financial nature, draft correspondence to verify data, answer queries, and obtain additional information on transactions and financial matters
• Maintain detailed records of budget estimates, obligations and available balances
• Participate in the consolidation of budget proposal and prepare financial data for budget estimates and financial planning
• Provide reports on budgetary performance of office accounts, and, if required, of project accounts, as well as report variations from budgets
• Maintain local inventory records

Requirements

• Secondary school education
• Four years of administrative, accounting and office management experience
• Very good knowledge of MS Office applications, Internet and office technology equipment
• Good knowledge of corporate financial/travel/human resources systems and administrative procedures and policies and organisational structure
• Limited knowledge of another FAO language
• Working knowledge (level C) of English

To apply and for more information, click here.

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