Finance Officer

Job Description

Dutystation: Home based

Functional responsibilities

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Finance Oversight Specialist, the Finance Officer will be responsible for:

Client Financial Reporting

• Maintain Dashboards of client reports and produce complex financial reports.
• Contribute to the development of a corporate client reporting mechanism, ensuring that UNOPS client financial reports are clear and in line with client requirements. More specifically, oversee the client reporting requirements of projects and clients within the remit of his/her region of responsibility, ensuring that the organization can rapidly and cost-efficiently provide financial reports to various clients in formats meeting the external reporting requirements of its clients.
• Timely entry of the data in the client ERP as required

Project Planning/Financial Management

• Review of budget submissions, regular analysis and budget approvals.
• Review Journal entry adjustments submitted by portfolios for accuracy and compliance with UNOPS financial rules and regulations.
• Coordinate with the Portfolio Managers to ensure compliance with UNOPS financial policies and procedures and that project budgets and revisions are prepared in accordance with established procedures and budgetary guidelines of the funding agency;
• Liaise with external and internal stakeholders to strengthen budget and financial management and take corrective actions when required.

Cash Management

• Establish, replenish, monitor, maintain and close petty cash and operations advances accounts for the assigned Clusters;
• Maintain a master list of VAT-recoverable countries and projects, Clear non-recoverable VAT to expenditure where necessary;
• Liaise with the Bangkok Shared Services Centre to have the tranches attributed to the correct projects;
• Maintain the master dashboard tracker of the cash instalments received from UN Secretariat;
• Oversee and Contribute to the quarterly and annual financial closure exercise, liaising with the HQ units in Copenhagen.

Education/Experience/Language requirements

Education

• Bachelor (or equivalent) with 2 of relevant experience.

Experience

• Relevant experience is defined as experience in finance, accounting, business administration or related field

Language

• Fluency (read, speak and write) in English is required

• Core working hours for the UN are 09:00hrs to 14:00hrs, personnel are expected to be online during this time.

About the Organization

TOGETHER, WE BUILD THE FUTURE

UNOPS – an operational arm of the United Nations – supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by successfully implementing its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.

Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.

We are proud of our people and embrace diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunities. Our workforce brings together approximately 160 nationalities, represented by over 5,000 UNOPS personnel as well as some 7,800 personnel recruited on behalf of our partners. Spread across 80 countries from a range of backgrounds, and languages and have different gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities.

We encourage women and candidates from underrepresented groups in UNOPS to apply. These include candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.