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Background

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Anchored within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in step with the priorities outlined within the UNDP Strategic Plan, the Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) helps the Arab States area to attain sustainable growth by eradicating poverty in all its kinds and dimensions, accelerating structural transformations for sustainable growth, and constructing resilience to crises and shocks. Within this work, the Regional Bureau for Arab States responds to wants throughout growth settings together with Least Developed Countries, Middle Income Countries, Net Contributor Countries and nations affected by disaster, with a view to assist the constructing of resilience, combat local weather change, leverage the promise of innovation, and prioritize the advance of girls, youth and weak teams as part of its dedication to the rules of universality, equality and leaving nobody behind in an growing advanced regional context.

The Regional Hub for Arab States in Amman focuses on thought management, disaster response and nation workplace assist. With a deal with efficient, well timed and responsive assist in step with UNDP’s programme priorities and tailor-made to the rising and altering wants and priorities within the area the supply of assist contains strategic coverage recommendation, programme growth and implementation, capability growth, coverage analysis and evaluation, information providers, and operations.

The Amman Regional Hub implements regional initiatives beneath the Regional Programme for Arab States 2022-2025 which touches upon the next areas of labor: governance and anti-corruption, regional cooperation for the discount of poverty and inequality, information financial system, battle prevention and peacebuilding, local weather safety, youth engagement and empowerment, gender equality, resilience constructing, amongst others.

Through its regional initiatives, the Regional Programme generates and avails growth information, expertise and experience to nations throughout the area; helps the creation and growth of inter-country initiatives and networks amongst governmental and non-governmental companions to handle shared challenges at a sub-regional and regional ranges; facilitates inter-country collaboration on cross-border points, akin to commerce, setting, and migration; advances regional dialogues, and expertise alternate on growth points which may be delicate the place regional stage advocacy might allow nation stage engagement and motion, akin to with efforts to combat corruption and exclusionary practices concentrating on sure teams; and promotes experimentation and innovation to assist overcome institutional, monetary and information limitations which may be too excessive for a person nation to surmount.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work:

Under the general steering from the Chief/Deputy Regional Hub Director, and direct supervision of the Regional Programme Manager, the Programme Finance Analyst is accountable for the next: 1.Ensure implementation of operational methods and adapt processes and procedures as per the next:

• Ensure full compliance with UNDP Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP) of economic actions, monetary recording, and reporting system.
• Facilitate the Regional Programme Finance enterprise processes by mapping and elaborating on the content material of normal working procedures in programme finance in session with the Regional Hub Senior administration.
• Follow-up on audit suggestions for the Regional Programme, and supply assist in closure of audit gaps.
• Implement financing and belief fund agreements.
• Elaborate proposals and implement value saving and discount methods in consultations with Senior administration.
• Provide steady evaluation and monitoring of the Regional Programme monetary state of affairs, and current forecasts for allotted growth initiatives/transactions/actions.
• Routinely monitor monetary exception experiences for uncommon actions and/or transactions, examine anomalies, and inform Senior administration when passable solutions will not be obtained.

2. Ensure efficient regional programme finance administration as per the next:

• Develop, implement, and comply with up on the Regional Programme Pipeline in related system (Quantum+).
• Ensure correct programme monetary sources administration via planning, guiding, and controlling of the sources.
• Routinely monitor the general monetary state of affairs of the regional programme sources, and escalate to the Regional Programme Manager points associated to the initiatives’ monetary administration (monetary agreements, delays in receipt of installments from donors, overspending, and many others..
• Provide substantive inputs within the preparation of initiatives’ annaul work plans.Prepare and monitor the initiatives budgets associated to the Regional Programme, and alert the Regional Programme Manager to any related points.
• Oversee ERP matching, implement efficient inside controls, and guarantee correct functioning of a client-oriented programme monetary useful resource administration system
• Implement management mechanisms by monitoring price range preparation and modifications, and budgetary standing versus ASL and money.
• Analyze necessities, and synthesize proposals on correct mechanisms to eradicate deficiencies in price range administration.
• Ensure management of Accounts Receivables, and mixed supply via common monitoring of the regional programme supply. Ensure evaluate and certification of quarterly mixed supply experiences (CDRs).
• Provide recommendation on administrative and Programme reporting, notably on budgetary points, and put together experiences together with donor experiences, as wanted.
• Monitor dashboards and exceptions, and determine remedial actions.
• Review cost-recovery payments for the providers requested by reginoal programme/initiatives and comply with up on its well timed cost.
• Ensure application of value restoration mechansims in all regional initiatives.
• Participate in initiatives’ audit, management on the comply with up, as wanted.

3.Ensure implementation of the useful resource mobilization as per the next:

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• Support the Regional Programme to articulate the framework and situations of contributions inside sources mobilization efforts.
• Monitor financing contributions.
• Provide recommendation to the Regional Programme on totally different donor reporting necessities, and monitor the monetary experiences to be submitted to donors.
• Track and report on mobilized sources.

4. Ensure facilitation of data constructing/sharing, and supply steering to all stakeholders on monetary issues as per the next:

• Organize and conduct coaching for the Projects/Programme Staff on monetary administration and budgetary points.
• Assist in offering common coaching and technical steering/recommendation on audit and compliance issues, together with implementation of Internal Control Framework (ICF).
• Synthesize classes realized and greatest practices in programme finance.
• Provide sound contributions to information networks and communities of observe.

The incumbent will carry out different duties inside their useful profile as deemed needed for the environment friendly functioning of the Regional Programme and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement

Under the general steering from the Chief/Deputy Regional Hub Director, and direct supervision of the Regional Programme Manager, the Programme Finance Analyst is accountable for the supply of programme finance providers to make sure efficient and clear utilization of economic sources and integrity of economic providers within the Regional Programme. S/he’ll work in shut collaboration with the Programme, Operations, and Project groups, and employees in UNDP HQ, and GSSC to resolve advanced programme, finance, and operations-related points in addition to to make sure profitable monetary administration efficiency of the Regional Programme. The incumbent will promote a collaborative, and a client-oriented method per UNDP guidelines and laws.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars,

delivers high quality work by deadline

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 1: Open to artistic concepts/identified dangers, is pragmatic downside

solver, makes enhancements

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares information, learns from

errors, asks for suggestions

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 1: Adapts to vary, constructively handles

ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of

adversity, assured

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in the direction of others,

kinds optimistic relationships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias,

confront discrimination

Cross-Functional &Technical competencies:

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Direction & Strategy

Systems Thinking

Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated parts coexist inside an general course of or system, and to think about how altering one ingredient can influence on different elements of the system.

Business Management

Portfolio Management

Ability to pick, prioritize and management the group’s programmes and initiatives in step with its strategic goals and capability.

Ability to stability the implementation of change initiatives with common actions for optimum return on funding. Knowledge and understanding of key rules of venture, programme, and portfolio administration.

Operations – Finance

Financial Risk Management

Ensures monetary resilience via proactive evaluation of danger, implementation of controls and taking mitigating motion.

Understands danger and reward in relation to collaborative and industrial initiatives. Ensures a tradition of optimistic danger administration.

Operations – Finance

Management and Cost Accounting

Ability to supply periodic qualitative and quantitative efficiency experiences to facilitate efficient determination making and efficiency monitoring.

Ability to make use of a spread of costing methods and analyze value associated knowledge to offer quantitative data to the customers of experiences.

Operations – Finance

Audit Risk Management

Ability to handle dangers and audit points raised in the middle of an audit and suggest options in an effort to guarantee a real and honest audit opinion is achieved.

Operations – Finance

Accounting (General)

Knowledge of accounting ideas, rules, frameworks, requirements, laws, insurance policies and traits, and talent to apply this to strategic and/or sensible conditions.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Education necessities

• An expert accounting qualification from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy, and/or Advanced (Masters) University Degree in Finance and/or Accounting is required. Candidates with skilled accounting {qualifications} from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy could have a definite benefit.
• A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) together with an extra two years of qualifying expertise can be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma
• Candidates with no skilled accountancy {qualifications}, however with levels that main in accountancy and/or finance should full the Finance Training and Certification Programme (FTCP), if recruited.
• Candidates satisfying the 2 above standards are exempted from endeavor the UNDP Advanced Accountancy and Finance Test (AAFT).
• Candidates with MBA or grasp’s in finance with no accountancy qualification however with related expertise should efficiently undertake the UNDP Advanced Accountancy and Finance Test (AAFT)to be eligible for shortlisting.

Min. years of related work expertise

• Minimum 2 years (with grasp’s diploma) or 4 years(with bachelor’s diploma) of related expertise in offering monetary administration providers at nationwide/worldwide stage is required.
• Experience of IPSAS and/or IFRS is required for exterior candidates.

Required expertise/expertise

• Experience in working with spreadsheets, and web-based administration techniques akin to ERP financials is required.

Desired expertise/expertise

• Experience working with UN/UNDP/International organizations is desired.
• Experience in monetary reporting and donor reporting is desired.
• Experience in monetary danger administration is an asset.
• Experience in programme oversight and programme efficiency administration is desired.
• Experience in administration of programme monetary sources together with planning, budgeting, and reporting is desired

Required Language(s)

• Fluency in English is required, Knowledge of Arabic and French an asset

Professional Certificates

• Candidates with skilled accounting {qualifications} from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy could have a definite benefit.

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