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Duties and Responsibilities The Finance Assistant will be responsible for providing back-office/financial support to the Project Lead and National Project Coordinator including:
Support implementation of operations strategies
- Financial tracking of activities and expenses
Monitoring project activities and expenses to ensure accurate budgeting, timely reporting, and compliance with organizational or donor requirements.
- Support with project budget and payments.
Support the project budget and payments by ensuring timely disbursements, accurate tracking of expenditures, and adherence to financial guidelines.
Request new tranches of funding, provide a detailed financial report of the previous tranche, highlighting the expenditures, project progress, and remaining balance.
- Liaising with UNDP country office and global ERSI administrative team to facilitate financial reporting and compliance with UNDP Financial.
Provide project budget management support.
- Provide support with all financial and administrative requirements of the project, especially those related to project funding and accounting.
- Assist in ensuring that project is executed in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Facilitate, guide, and monitor the work of the national ERSI team; manage payment schedules.
- Assist in project related activities, and project budget.
- Any other duties assigned by the National ERSI Leader or National Project Coordinator that have direct relevance to the project.
Provide financial oversight support.
- Support in managing the project budget, oversee procurement and accounting, together with the UNDP Country Office and the global ERSI Team.
- Ensure financial resources are disbursed on time to implementing partners.
- Maintain records of expenditures and collaborate in financial reporting.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Key deliverables (products and processes):
- Develop calculations for the development of the annual workplan/budget.
- Assist in processing budget revisions.
- Monitoring budget and expenditures, while solving budget errors
- Ensuring sufficient funds available to cover expenses and requests.
- Revising needed budgets and ensuring no misspending or overspending is taking place.
- Processing payments, on time, using corresponding UNDP DIM forms.
Institutional Arrangement
The Project Management unit (PMU) will consist of a Project Manager, a Finance Assistant (this position), a coordinator an administrative officer and a driver. The Finance Assistant will be responsible for providing finance support to the Project Lead and National Project Coordinator.
Competencies Core
Achieve Results:
LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively:
LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously:
LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility:
LEVEL 1: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process
Act with Determination:
LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner:
LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion:
LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Thematic Area
Name
Definition
Business Management
Operations Management
Ability to effectively plan, organize and oversee different parts of corporate operations, simultaneously and in an integrated way. Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms.
Finance
Accounting (General)
Knowledge of accounting concepts, principles, frameworks, standards, regulations, policies and trends, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situations.
Finance
Budget management
Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets.
Finance
Management and cost accounting
Ability to produce periodic qualitative and quantitative performance reports to facilitate effective decision making and performance monitoring. Ability to use a range of costing techniques and analyze cost related data to provide quantitative information to the users of reports.
Required Skills and Experience Education: - Secondary education with specialized certification in accounting and/or finance is required.
- A university degree in finance or accounting is desirable.
- Part-qualified accountants from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy will have a distinct advantage.
- Candidates with accountancy certification from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy will have a distinct advantage.
- Candidates without certification but with relevant experience must complete the UNDP Finance Training and Certification Programme (FTCP), if recruited.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years (with secondary education) or 2 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible finance and /or accounting experience at the national or international level is required.
Required skills:
- Experience in dealing with national experts and international institutions.
- Sound understanding of key software packages (MS Office)
- Proven track record of meeting deadlines for submitting project budget.
- Experience in budget planning and monitoring expenses
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:
- Prior experience in project accounting with an international agency is an asset.
- Experience with UNDP/UN is an asset.
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