Finance and Budget Assistant at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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