Finance and Budget Officer

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Description

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This position is located in the Finance and Budget Unit of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA). The budgeted location is Hodeidah due to operational requirements the post has been temporarily moved to Amman. The incumbent will be based in Amman and will report to the Chief Finance and Budget Officer.

Responsibilities

• Prepare cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of mission’s resourcing requirements such as staff and non-staff requirements, including programmatic aspects; review, analyse and revise data with respect to the finalization of the budget proposals as well as Result Based Budgeting inputs.   
• Provide support to programme/fund centre managers (Substantive and Mission Support Pillars) with respect to the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.   
• Administer and monitor extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.   
• Administrate the mission’s allotments in accordance with the established procedures including redeployment/reallocation of funds.   
• Ensure the efficient and effective use of budgetary resources through robust monitoring of budget utilization to the approved budget and timely provision of information to Mission management for decision making;   
• Provide support and guidance to fund centre/programme managers on budget implementation and corrective actions where necessary. 
• Support CBFO in the management of resources by continuously seek to identify cost-saving measures and ways to improve efficiency. 
• Prepare various presentations for the Head of Mission; deliver presentations in absence of CBFO. 
• Analyse complex/unusual accounting transactions and open items in the accounting system and implement corrective actions.   
• Prepare monthly budget performance report of the mission and ensure that correct and accurate data and information are provided by the various programme /fund centre managers in compliance with the Controller’s instructions. 
•  Review and finalise the performance reports ensuring valid and adequate variance explanations between approved budgets and actual expenditures. 
•  Review and reconcile various clearing accounts, investigate erroneous/invalid entries or unusual transactions and take appropriate corrective accounting action. 
•  Review and verify Service Orders and or cost allocations charged by HQ or other UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes.   
• Review funds commitments at year end; Advise and ensure that only valid year-end budget commitments confirming with established criteria are valid for carrying forward.     
• Review and verify that appropriate relevant supporting documents have been provided for the processing of payments for goods and services received;   
• Supervise the disbursement of payments and monitor house bank account balances and transaction.   
• Manage cash flow requirements of the mission; Verify imprest documentation and prepare imprest statements.   
• Provide advice, financial interpretations, adaptations and corrective actions in response to audits and other queries to ensure adherence to the UN Financial Regulations and Rules, Staff Rules, Administrative Instructions, Bulletins and Circulars under the supervision/guidance of the Chief Finance and Budget Officer.   
• Performs analysis, preparation and delivery of strategic support and business intelligence to operational counterparts and mission leadership on financial resourcing and stewardship, and organizational performance of the mission, in line with mission priorities.   
• Actively participate and engage in planning, monitoring and reporting of financial and operational performance. 
• In the absence of a Chief Finance and Budget officer, may serve as Officer in Charge and oversee the daily operation of the Unit.   Carry out other duties as assigned.

Education:

High school diploma or equivalent is required.

Work Experience:

• At least ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience within the United Nations system in budget formulation, implementation, analysis and monitoring in a complex peacekeeping environment is required.   
• At least five (5) year experience in intergovernmental processes of review and approval of proposed programme budget is required.   
• Experience working with financial systems or financial modules/functions of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP, Oracle or similar is required.   
• Experience in preparing budget performance report, analysing complex or unusual accounting transactions and open items, and implementing corrective actions is required.   
• Experience in the United Nations cost recovery procedures and management of cost recovery funds is desirable.   
• Experience in preparing and delivering presentations on complex financial issues to senior managers across various communication channels is desirable.   
• Experience in troubleshooting travel requests in ERP, generating various travel reports and performing variance analysis is desirable.

Languages:

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English is required, (both oral and written).
• Fluency in Arabic is desirable.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/257553?language=en

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