UNO Finance and Budget Officer Jobs In New York 2022
Job Details
| Posting Title | Finance and Budget Officer, P4 |
| Department/Office | Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance Office of Programme Planning, Finance and Budget |
| Duty Station | NEW YORK |
| Posting Period | 01 February 2022 – 17 March 2022 |
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Description UNO Finance and Budget Officer Jobs In New York 2022
UNO Finance and Budget Officer Jobs In New York 2022 This position is located in the Trust Funds Management Section of the Financial Reporting and Contribution Service of the Finance Division (FD), Office of Programme Planning Finance and Budget (OPPFB), Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC). The Finance and Budget Officers will report to the Chief of Section.
Duties & Responsibilities
Budget preparation
- Reviews, analyses and finalizes cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements for extra-budgetary funds.
- Provides detailed input with respect to resource requirements for budget submissions.
- Reviews, analyzes and finalizes budget and present any financial implications to the organization.
- Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their budget review; assists in securing approval from the General Assembly as necessary.
Budget administration
- Issues allotments/appropriations, authorizes sub-allotments/appropriations, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
- Manages and monitors budget implementation and recommends reallocation of funds as necessary.
- Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
- Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
- Prepares budget performance submissions.
- Reviews and finalizes budget performance reports, analyzing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
- Provides substantive support to relevant departments, intergovernmental and expert bodies.
Finance
- Manages a complete financial operation, encompassing a wide variety of funding sources, a large volume of transactions, and extensive dispersed activities.
- Approves/Confirms that proposed obligations or expenditure for services, facilities supplies and equipment expenses, as well as those pertaining to personnel, are in accordance with the Financial Regulations and Rules of the UN, relevant appropriations and staffing tables and corresponding approved allotments/appropriations.
- Analyses accounts, reviews/prepares regular financial reports. Proposes/implements solutions with respect to problem transactions and irregularities.
- Ensures that accurate and complete accounting, reporting and internal control systems are functioning and that all relevant records are maintained.
- Prepares or consolidates financial statements for inclusion in the UN Audited Financial Statements to be audited. Responds to internal/external audit observations. Reviews the financial statements of other entities for which the Controller has certification authority.
- Produces major/complex financial reports for management including trend and forecast analysis.
- Provides substantive support to the development and implementation of new accounting systems. Takes initiative to improve accounting processes and approaches.
- Provides data for the preparation of year-end performance reports.
- Guides, trains and supervises staff in the function.
General
- Provides advice and guidance, including training, to headquarters and field staff on budgetary and financial policies and procedures, including results-based budgeting.
- Participates in inter-departmental meetings and/or technical survey missions on matters related to resource requirements, programming, financial and budgetary issues.
- Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to finance and budget, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures.
- Drafts reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on financial and budgetary issues, and correspondence.
- Undertakes research and analysis of financial and budgetary policies and procedures, makes recommendations for changes and/or modifications.
- Acts as Certifying Officer or Approving Officer in accordance with established regulations and rules.
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
Education
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or related field.
- A first-level 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 desirable.
Experience
- A minimum of seven years progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance, administration, budget, business administration or related areas is required.
- Experience in the preparation of financial statements and donor reports is required.
- Experience with financial systems/finance module of enterprise resource planning (ERP) such as Oracle, SAP, Soft or similar software is required.
- Experience in leading and managing a group of staff working in the financial area is desirable.
- Experience with accounting policy research and implementation is desirable.
- Experience in preparing cost plans and monitoring the budget is required.
Required Language
- English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
- For the position advertised, fluency in English is required; and knowledge of French is desirable.
- Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.
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