Overview
Provide strategic financial leadership and oversight for the New York Portfolios Office (NYPO), ensuring a robust control environment, high-quality financial reporting, and integration of financial services across diverse portfolios.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic financial support and budget oversight to NYPO.
- Develop Finance/Budget annual work plan, setting priorities and planning work.
- Monitor and analyze the operating environment for agility, risk management, and readjustment.
- Strengthen client and stakeholder satisfaction by meeting financial reporting requirements.
- Lead internal and external audit exercises and accountability for financial audit recommendations.
- Contribute to corporate strategy requirements and recommendations.
- Drive finance function initiatives for added value and optimal support.
- Contribute specialist financial knowledge to long-term strategy for business efficiencies.
- Bridge the gap between HQ-level policy development and field execution, including financial training.
- Lead cross-functional integration and process efficiency improvements.
- Work towards coherence in processes and policy improvements.
- Benchmark internal financial practices with external best practices.
- Supervise monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounting processes.
- Mitigate reputational risk by ensuring integrity and accuracy of financial performance and expenditure.
- Ensure transactions are correct and escalate complex challenges.
- Drive inputs on budget design across programmes.
- Lead control and data integrity tests of systems.
- Drive the delivery of training to raise financial capacity, awareness, and compliance.
- Conduct continuous assessment of client satisfaction and performance through KPIs.
- Analyze statistics and trends to inform and guide the portfolio.
- Establish a knowledge management system for financial management trends and lessons learned.
- Lead financial quarterly reviews with clients and stakeholders.
- Lead an effective, high-performing, and inclusive Finance team.
- Ensure team cohesion and integration across sub-teams.
- Foster and role-model a safe and inclusive work environment.
- Ensure hybrid working arrangements are managed equitably.
- Embed DEI objectives in PER/PRAs for Finance team members.
- Lead the budget and business planning process.
- Monitor budget implementation and resource utilization.
- Steward management resources of NYPO clusters ensuring timely cost recovery and adequate pricing.
- Improve and develop costing/budgeting models.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree, or a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree.
- Relevant experience is defined as progressive professional experience in business process analysis and/or redesign, and/or optimization in financial management, budget oversight, and strategic financial planning.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience managing teams in a professional environment is required.
- Experience fostering diverse and inclusive team cultures, including in hybrid or multicultural work environments, is desirable.
- Experience working in an international organization or the UN system is desirable.
Qualifications
- Master degree (or equivalent) preferably in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related fields.
- Bachelor's degree preferably in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related fields.
