Overview
The Finance Analyst plays a strategic role in ensuring the integrity of UNDP’s financial data, leading the preparation of financial statements and statutory reports, and overseeing agency services related to financial transactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensures data integrity over the GL and related modules and proper functioning of interface controls.
- Ensures periodic statutory financial closure processes are performed on time and efficiently.
- Supports data elements required for the preparation of UNDP and other IPSAS compliant financial statements.
- Supports data integrity elements in corporate analysis and responds to queries on data elements and financial queries.
- Master data maintenance on select data segments.
- Supports other finance/accounting functions as necessary.
- Supervises and manages Financial Accounts Analyst.
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of practical experience in preparing financial statements and analyzing balance sheet accounts at national and international levels is required.
- Familiar with the complexity of client relationships among international organisations, national governments and civil society is an asset.
- Experience with ERP financials, preferably Oracle is desired.
- Experience of conforming to IPSAS/IFRS and full accruals accounting conventions is required.
- Audit experience is desirable.
Qualifications
- A professional accounting qualification from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy is required.
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience or an Advanced (Masters) University Degree in Finance and/or Accounting is required.
