Overview
The Finance and Budget Officer will review, analyze, and finalize programme plans, budget proposals, and financial reports. The role involves managing financial operations, ensuring compliance with regulations, and providing advice on budgetary and financial policies.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews, analyses and finalizes the preparation of the programme plan and its revisions.
- Provides substantive support to intergovernmental and expert bodies in their review of the programme plan.
- Reviews, analyses and finalizes cost estimates and budget proposals.
- Provides detailed input with respect to resource requirements for budget submissions.
- Reviews, analyzes and finalizes program budget/financial implications to the Security Council statements.
- Issues allotments/appropriations, authorizes sub-allotments/appropriations.
- Manages and monitors budget implementation and recommends reallocation of funds.
- Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
- Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources.
- Authorizes payment to Governments for settlement of claims.
- Prepares budget performance submissions.
- Reviews and finalizes budget performance reports.
- Manages a complete financial operation.
- Approves/Confirms that proposed obligations or expenditure are in accordance with regulations and rules.
- Analyses accounts, reviews/prepares regular financial reports.
- Ensures that accurate and complete accounting, reporting and internal control systems are functioning.
- Prepares or consolidates financial statements for inclusion in the UN Audited Financial Statements.
- Produces major/complex financial reports for management.
- Provides substantive support to the development and implementation of new accounting systems.
- Provides data for the preparation of year-end performance reports.
- Guides, trains and supervises staff in the function.
- Provides advice and guidance, including training, to headquarters and field staff on budgetary and financial policies and procedures.
- Participates in inter-departmental meetings and/or technical survey missions.
- Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to finance and budget.
- Drafts reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on financial and budgetary issues, and correspondence.
- Drafts official documentation to troop contributing countries concerning reimbursements from the United Nations.
- Undertakes research and analysis of financial and budgetary policies and procedures.
- Acts as Certifying Officer or Approving Officer.
- Ensures the integrity of financial and management systems and the controls that underpin them.
- Provides support with respect to representation of the Secretary-General in meetings of legislative organs.
- Represents OPPFB or division in inter and intra-departmental meetings.
- May plan, organize, manage and supervise the work of the Unit/Section assigned.
- Incumbents may be asked to perform other related duties.
Required Experience
A minimum of seven years progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance, budget, business administration or related area is required. Experience in applying private sector or public-sector accounting standards such as International Financial Reporting Standard(s) (IFRS) or International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS) supporting the preparing Financial Statements is required. Extensive experience in drafting complex and comprehensive financial reports is required. Experience in analysing audit observations, producing audit responses and/or coordinating and preparing responses on oversight reports, following up on the status of implementation of oversight recommendations is desirable. Experience drafting user guidance and training documentation for accounting processes is desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or related field is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in the specified fields of studies with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent is required.
