UNEP Senior Budget and Finance Officer Job

Responsibilities

• Budgetary Management Carry out strategic financial planning and management of UNEP financial resources in accordance with UNEP and UN financial rules. Coordinate submission of biennial Programme of Work (PoW) budget and Regular Budget to the United Nations Environment Assembly and the General Assembly. Ensures legislative mandates are accurately translated into programme budgets; plans and co-ordinates review of budget submissions. Reviews, analyses and finalizes cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements; ensures compliance with the medium-term plan and other legislative mandates. Manages/issues allotments, authorizes sub-allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures. 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. 
• Oversees the review and finalization of budget performance reports; monitors variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
• Prepares/finalizes reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on budgetary issues, and correspondence, including guidelines, instructions. 
• Acts as Certifying Officer under Financial Rules to ensure that proposed obligations and expenditures are in accordance with budgets and established regulations and rules.  
• Finance & Accounting Oversees the financial function of the Organization which includes a number of different and diverse operations and interrelated accounts of the financial system. Reviews the operational objectives and related financial policies and procedures affecting the Organization’s accounting and financial systems; leads in designing and implementing required changes. Ensures that UNEP’s financial statements are International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) compliant. Directs the agile implementation of upgrades to the various modules in the system. 
• Keeps up to date with new IPSAS policies and implements in conjunction with UNON. 
• Liaises with UNON, Administrative/Fund Management Officers (A/FMOs), and auditors as required to identify and resolve finance issues. 
• Provides support and guidance on financial aspects of legal agreements. 
• Ensures the financial data integrity of Umoja and the controls that underpin them. Reviews UNEP financial statements and provides authoritative advice to UNEP Senior Management including financial interpretations, adaptations and corrective actions in response to audits and other queries to ensure adherence to Financial Regulations and Rules, Staff Rules, Administrative Instructions, Bulletins and Circulars. Leads team members’ efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. 
• Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.

Project Closure  

• Provides strategic and operational guidance for closing expired projects in the UNEP Divisions/Offices, particularly in support of the newly established Climate Change Division.  
• Supervises a finance team in the project closure.   
• Liaises with Project Managers, Implementing Partners, Government Representatives to gather historical information on project implementation.   
• Advises on project fund balances.   
• Monitors progress of the project closure exercise, hold weekly progress meetings, report to Senior Management on the project closure exercise and take proactive measures to mitigate against potential risks.

Competencies & Qualifications

Education

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.  
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Job – Specific Qualification

• Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) or equivalent is desirable.    

Work Experience

• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in finance, administration, programme management, business administration or related area is required.  
•  A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in implementing, applying, and contributing to development of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is required.    
• A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on, practical experience with preparing annual financial statements for large international organizations involving multiple sources of funds is desirable. 
• Minimum five (5) years of supervising and managing a team of accounting professionals involved in each of the following areas: resource mobilization, implementing partners management, grant management, certifying officer responsibilities is required.    
• Minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in conceptualizing, preparing, and defending policy and administrative decisions/guidance to diverse inter-governmental bodies in support of negotiations and international environmental agreements is required.    
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in reviewing and advising on financial implications of terms and conditions of legal agreements with host countries, donors and UN Agencies is desirable.    
• Minimum of two (2) years experience in developing, building capacity and delivery of training on financial and legal arrangements with project implementing partners is desirable.    
• Experience with use of finance modules in an ERP system, including analysis of accounting data and creation of management reports using Business Intelligence tools, is desirable.    
• Experience in performing analysis, reviewing, and designing tailored donor reports is desirable.    
• Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable

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