Finance and Budget Assistant

Date Posted: Dec. 1, 2022, 12:51 p.m.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Grants Management
  • Creation of new grants based on approved project or POW budgets and requesting for their approval in Umoja
  • Creation of grants project structure models to address donor and organizational reporting requirements
  • Grant accounting including management of released and unreleased budgets
  • Creation of project down payments against approved P1 grants
  • Recording of project expenditures as reported by implementing partners
  • Month-end and year-end closing processes including transactional analysis and clean-up of processed data
  • Funds Management
  • Execute budget distribution in Umoja based on approved appropriations, redeployments and allotments
  • Creation of funds pre-commitment, commitments and funds blocks against authorized budgets and the necessary approvals
  • Monitoring budget utilization against approved expenditure classes to stop the budget is not overspent
  • Posting of approved adjustments against approved budgets.
  • Donor Reporting
  • Creation of donor reports against approved projects, grants and donor agreements
  • Perform other duties as may be required.

Qualifications/special Skills

  • Completion of High school diploma or equivalent is required.
  • Supplementary training in Accounting and Finance is highly desirable.
  • A minimum of 5 years of progressive work experience in finance, accounting is required
  • Experience in an international organization with accounting and/or financial/Budget management roles is required
  • Prior experience in the UN system and working knowledge of UMOJA and/or other ERP applications highly

Closing: 09 December 2022

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should make their applications via UNEP's career website on https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=190690

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