Overview
The Finance and Budget Officer will be responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and finalizing medium-term plans, budget proposals, and budget performance reports. This role provides substantive support to intergovernmental bodies and ensures legislative mandates are translated into program budgets.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews, analyses and finalizes the preparation of the medium-term plan and its revisions.
- Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their review of the medium-term plan.
- Ensures legislative mandates are accurately translated into program budgets.
- 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, authorizes sub-allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary.
- 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.
- Supervises creation and closure of UNMAS grants in UMOJA.
- Prepares budget performance submissions.
- Reviews and finalizes budget performance reports, analyzing variances.
- 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 program and/or peacekeeping budgets.
- Drafts reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on budgetary issues, and correspondence.
- Undertakes research and analysis of budgetary policies and procedures, makes recommendations for changes.
- Acts as Certifying Officer under Financial Rule 110.4.
- 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 UNMAS in inter and intra-departmental meetings.
- Plans, organizes, manages and supervises the work of the Section.
Required Experience
A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in finance, administration, budget, business administration or related area is required. Experience with budgetary procedures, policies and practices in an international organization is required. Experience involving trust fund management, budget preparation, resource planning, monitoring and analysis of budget implementation is required. Experience with financial systems and financial modules of ERP such as SAP is required. Experience working with donor agreements, managing trust funds or extrabudgetary resources is desirable. Experience representing budget and finance issues with internal or external clients is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
