Finance & Budget Officer at United Nations

This post is located in Budget and Financial Management Service (BFMS), United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON).

Finance & Budget Officer Job Responsibilities

Medium-term plan

• Review, analyse and finalize the preparation of the medium-term plan and its revisions on the basis of departmental submissions, taking into account recommendations and decisions of specialized inter-governmental bodies.
• Provide substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their review of the medium-term plan and its revisions.
• Ensure legislative mandates are accurately translated into programme budgets.

Budget administration

• Issue allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
• Monitor budget implementation and determine/recommend reallocation of funds when necessary.
• Monitor expenditure to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
• Review all requisitions generated by the Reality system for goods and services to ensure correct objects of expenditure have been charged, ensuring availability of funds.
• Administer and monitor extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
• Prepare relevant documentation with respect to budget performance submissions.
• Review and make appropriate recommendations with respect to the finalization of budget performance reports, analysing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
• Provide substantive support to intergovernmental and legislative bodies.

Qualifications for the Finance & Budget Officer Job

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, or related field, is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in finance, administration, budget, business administration or related area with proven working experience/knowledge with Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) systems.