Budget Officer at UN-Habitat

Responsibilities

• Medium-term plan: Reviews, analyses and finalizes 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.
• Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their review of the medium-term plan and its revisions; assists in securing approval from the General Assembly and the Executive Board.
• Ensures legislative mandates are accurately translated into programme budgets.
• Budget preparation: Reviews and analyses data with respect to the finalization of cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements from offices at Headquarters and in the field, including programmatic aspects.
• Provides support to managers with respect to the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
• Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their budget review; assists in securing approval from the Executive Board and the General Assembly.
• Budget administration: Issues allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures.
• Monitors budget implementation and determines/recommends reallocation of funds when necessary.
• Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels.
• Reviews all requisitions generated by the Umoja ERP system for goods and services to ensure correct objects of expenditure have been charged, ensuring availability of funds.
• Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
• Prepares relevant documentation with respect to budget performance submissions.
• Reviews and makes appropriate recommendations with respect to the finalization of budget performance reports, analysing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures. • Provides substantive support to intergovernmental and legislative bodies.
• General: Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to programme budgets, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures;
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Monitors and supervises the work of subordinate staff as may be required.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Education

• 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 (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.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance, administration, budget or business administration is required.
• Experience in implementation of Accounting Standards, including International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is required.
• Working experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system e.g. Systems, Applications and Products (SAP), is required.
• Experience working in an international setting is desirable. Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable