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National Post: Finance Associate, Abuja – G6 – Fixed Term Appointment

Abuja, Nigeria

Job Info

Job Identification 22748

• Posting Date 12/11/2024, 03:14 PM
• Apply Before 12/27/2024, 05:00 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Abuja, Nigeria
• Grade G6
• Vacancy Type Fixed Term
• Rotational/Non Rotational Non-Rotational
• Contract Duration 1 Year with Possibility for extension
• Education & Work Experience High School certificates
• Other Criteria Bachelors diploma or Higher National Diploma
• Required Languages English
• Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks
• Job Category Administration/Operations/Support

Job Description

Background Information

Grade stage of Post G6

Position Number: 00060515

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Full/Part Time: Full Time

Fixed Term/Temporary: Fixed Term Appointment (FTA)

Rotational/Non Rotational: Non Rotational

Duration: One yr* (renewable primarily based on availability of funds and passable efficiency).

Closing Date: Friday, 27 December, 2024

Please notice that this emptiness announcement is simply for Nigerian nationals.

*No expectancy of renewal in accordance with UN employees rules 4.5.

The Position

Under the general steerage of the UNFPA Representative and Deputy Representative and the direct supervision of the Finance & Admin Associate, the Finance Associate ensures the efficient functioning of monetary operations and programs in assist of the programme and workplace administration. S/he works intently with programmes and challenge employees offering monetary monitoring and evaluation of tasks and advising managers on expenditure traits and implementation charges. S/he ensures efficient and environment friendly functioning of monetary operations and programs..

S/he delivers high quality companies in Financial Management to inside and exterior purchasers mastering all related guidelines, tips, processes and procedures. S/he takes a consumer-oriented outcomes-centered method to decoding the foundations, procedures and tips in service of the Country Programme, offering assist and steerage to colleagues and UNFPA supported states in Nigeria. S/he works intently with Programme and Project employees offering monetary monitoring and evaluation of tasks and advising managers on expenditure traits and implementation charges.

Finance Associate is predicted to keep up collaborative relationships with all technical employees (Programme Officers and challenge employees) in addition to authorities counterparts.

How you can also make a distinction:

UNFPA is the lead UN company for delivering a world the place each being pregnant is needed, each childbirth is secure and each younger particular person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the present strategic course of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative outcomes: to finish preventable maternal deaths; finish unmet want for household planning; and finish gender-primarily based violence and dangerous practices. These outcomes seize our strategic commitments on accelerating progress in the direction of realizing the ICPD and SDGs within the Decade of Action main as much as 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and people to “build forward better”, whereas addressing the unfavorable impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on ladies’s and ladies’ entry to sexual and reproductive well being and reproductive rights, recuperate misplaced beneficial properties and notice our targets.

In a world the place basic human rights are in danger, we’d like principled and moral employees, who embody these worldwide norms and requirements, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is looking for candidates that rework, encourage and ship excessive impression and sustained outcomes; we’d like employees who’re clear, distinctive in how they handle the sources entrusted to them and who decide to ship excellence in programme outcomes.

Duties and Responsibilities

Support the monitoring of programme monetary efficiency for all core and non-core sources by offering essential monetary data and evaluation, together with implementation charge towards indicators/outcomes. Detects potential over-beneath expenditure issues and suggests remedial motion;

• Facilitate all fee requests, monetary document-conserving and preparation of monetary studies required in keeping with NEX and HACT monetary guidelines and procedures;
• Develop instruments and mechanisms for efficient monitoring of programme and challenge budgets, coordinates compilation of monetary information and offers correct and up-dated monetary data to UNFPA Field Office in Abuja frequently;
• Integrate monetary insurance policies and procedures, notably regarding National Execution (NEX), into commonplace operational procedures, and offers steerage and coaching to employees and challenge managers accordingly;
• Ensure the efficient monetary recording and reporting system, inside management and audit comply with-up and processes monetary transactions in an correct and well timed approach;
• Provide logistical and technical assist to UNFPA programme employees and implementing companions in Programme Financial Management;
• Review and monitor costs for widespread companies and value restoration, considering most price effectivity and represents UNFPA’s curiosity in associated negotiations and agreements;
• Assist within the formulation of programme/challenge budgets.
• Provide high quality companies in administration, procurement, communication and administration of workplace tools and infrastructure to inside and exterior purchasers mastering all related guidelines, tips, processes and procedures.
• Establish and maintains contacts with authorities counterparts and implementing companions to make sure an efficient and environment friendly collaboration;
• Facilitate the conduct of NEX audits and ensures the event and implementation of comply with-up actions;

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• Facilitate all fee requests, monetary document-conserving and preparation of monetary studies required in keeping with NEX and HACT monetary guidelines and procedures;
• Assist within the recruitment and procurement processes, guaranteeing conformity with UNFPA and Government guidelines and procedures;
• Assist within the group of coaching actions, guaranteeing logistical and, the place relevant, monetary preparations; and
• Undertake another assignments as could also be required by the Heads of Sub-offices, International Operations Manager, Deputy Representative and/or Representative.

Qualification and Experience

The ideally suited candidate ought to

Be a Nigerian National

• Have a secondary School Certificate or a
• Have a bachelor’s diploma or Higher National Diploma in Public Administration, Accounting, Business, Economics, or associated discipline of schooling.
• Candidates holding Professional Accounting {qualifications} equivalent to CPA or ACCA may even be thought of.
• Have a minimal of 6 years of related work expertise, together with no less than 3 years in the identical useful space.
• Be conversant in UN Operational Rules and Regulations; direct working expertise making use of and dealing with UN Operational guidelines and rules, a excessive benefit and familiarity with Quantum might be an asset.
• Be Fluent in oral and written English;
• Be proficient in present MS Office software program purposes and different accounting bundle is crucial.

Required competencies

Values

Exemplifying integrity

• Demonstrating dedication to UNFPA and the UN system
• Embracing cultural range
• Embracing change

Core Competencies

Achieving outcomes

• Being accountable
• Developing and making use of skilled experience/enterprise acumen
• Thinking analytically and strategically
• Working in groups/managing ourselves and {our relationships}
• Communicating for impression

Functional Competencies

Strategically positioning UNFPA programmes

• Providing conceptual innovation to assist programme effectiveness
• Generating, managing and selling the usage of data and data
• Providing a technical assist programs
• Strengthening the programming capability of implementing companions
• Facilitating high quality programmatic outcome
• Internal and External relations and advocacy for outcomes mobilization.

Compensation and Benefits

This place presents a sexy remuneration bundle commensurate with the extent of the put up. The bundle features a aggressive web wage plus, medical insurance and different advantages. Qualified ladies are inspired to apply.

Disclaimer

UNFPA doesn’t cost any software, processing, coaching, interviewing, testing or different charge in reference to the applying or recruitment course of. Fraudulent notices, letters or presents could also be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm