Deadline: 22 July, 2020
Location: New York, United States of America
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Finance Specialist.
The mission of UNOPS is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure, and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Responsibilities
- Reduce reputational risk by ensuring timely client financial reporting and effective day-to-day liaison with the main client UNMAS
- Liaise with the UNMAS finance team as well as the internal stakeholders, the portfolio teams of the Peace and Security Cluster, Integrated Practice Advice and Support (IPAS) and finance group in the HQ to ensure that the reporting standards and timelines are in line with the donor needs and requirements as well as the organisational directives
- Ensure the financial information is compiled and maintained in a strategically relevant manner to inform funding decisions
- Optimise the use of the finance team dashboards to ensure accurate data input for the client reporting schedule, advanced financing, refund letters, etc
- Provide input for and participate in the quarterly external finance reviews
- Provide support to portfolio managers on the budget development process during the financial agreement inception phase, ensuring alignment with agreed client reporting schedules and target cost recovery and escalating deviation from the agreed standards for further review
- Monitor expenditures against approved budgets on a quarterly basis in terms of cash spent, budget category tolerance, savings and commitments and advise the portfolio managers on the course of action
- Produce Management accounts on a monthly basis and discuss it with the finance advisor prior to the senior management team meeting
- Review the management accounts monthly and initiate adjustments to wrongly allocated expenditures where necessary
- Ensure accurate monthly cost recovery of the PSC locally managed direct cost (LMDC) and centrally managed direct cost (CMDC)
- Analyse the main trends of the PSC cost recovery mechanisms and discuss the main findings with the finance advisor
Requirements
- Advanced university degree with at least five years of relevant experience
- First university degree with at least seven years of relevant experience
- Experience conducting financial and budget analysis
- ERP experience
- Fluency in English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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