Brief details about UN jobs in Kenya – SENIOR FINANCE AND BUDGET ASSISTANT:

• Organization: UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme

  

• Location: UN jobs in Kenya , Nairobi
• Grade: Administrative support – GS-7, General Service – No need for Higher Education – Locally recruited position
• Occupational Groups:
  • Operations and Administrations
  • Administrative support
  • Banking and Finance
• Closing Date: 2023-07-19

About UNEP:

Information about the organization that has offered the UN jobs in Kenya – SENIOR FINANCE AND BUDGET ASSISTANT job:

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an association established in 1972 to guide and harmonize environmental activities within the United Nations (UN) system. UNEP works closely with its 193 Member States and agents from civil society, businesses, and other major groups and stakeholders to address environmental challenges via the UN Environment Assembly, the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. UNEP advances international cooperation on environmental issues, provides guidance to UN organizations, and encourages the international scientific neighborhood to participate in formulating policy for many of the UN’s environmental projects. UNEP’s efforts are focused on varying the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and corruption and waste to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal.

Tasks of UN jobs in Kenya – SENIOR FINANCE AND BUDGET ASSISTANT:

1. Budget:

•  Operating as Certifying Officer on behalf of and in the absence of programme mangers at offices outside headquarters.
•  Implementation review, analyzing and preparing of the medium-term plan and its revisions.
•  Reviewing analyzing and assisting in the finalization of cost estimates and budget proposals,
  in terms of staff and non-staff requirements, including programmatic aspects; ensuring compliance with the medium-term plan and other legislative mandates.
•  Helping managers in the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
•  Launching research and providing support to higher level Finance & Budget Officers with respect to budget reviews of relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies.
•  Providing input into the preparation of allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring proper expenditures.
•  Observing budget implementation/expenditures and recommending reallocation of funds as necessary.
•  Checking requisitions for goods and services to ensure (a) correct objects of expenditure have been charged, and (b) availability of funds.
•  Observing extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
•  Aiding in the preparation of budget performance submissions.
•  Helping in finalization of budget performance reports, analyzing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
•  Observing integrity of various financial databases.
•  Verifying the accuracy of input data, ensuring consistency of data in previous allotments to new allotments issued.
•  Co-ordinating with other finance and budget staff on connected issues during preparation of budget reports.

Claims:

•  Checking , analyzing and processing payments to third-parties, commercial entities, individuals and troop-contributing countries, with respect to settlement of certified death and disability, contingent-owned equipment, stores, pay and allowances, and letters of assist claims.

Treasury:

•  Checking incoming payment instructions with regard to banking details and sources of funds.
•  Preparing payments for final distribution by cashier.
•  Dispatching payment instructions and cheques to banks.
•  Concocting receipts and deposits for all incoming funds.
•  Informing payees of status of payments.
•  Helping staff members, fund management officers and donors regarding queries on payment and deposit-related issues.
•  Recognizing and annotating bank account movements. Monitoring bank balances worldwide.
•  Aiding cashier in cash management and investment issues, including cash flow forecasts.
•  Liaising with banks worldwide regarding outstanding items and payment instructions.
•  Investigating objections on non-receipts.
•  Observing cheque stock and orders new stock as required.
•  Checking inter and intra-unit processes with aim to optimising workflow and customer orientation.
•  Observing/reviewing methods used to remit payments.
•  Helping in preparation of periodical reports: cash flow, contributions.
•  Following up on audit recommendations.
•  Following up on fraud cases.
•  Aiding cashier in the daily operation of the Cashier’s Unit responsible for the transmittal of payments worldwide.
•  Filing and archiving as needed.

General:

•  Maintaining up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to programme and/or peacekeeping budgets, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures.
•  Drafting or preparing correspondence to respond to inquiries in respect to relevant financial and budget matters.
•  Providing direction, training and daily supervision to other general service staff in the area of responsibility.
•  Aids with the collection and analysis of data as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning and decision making.
•  Helps with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures.
•  Conducting other related duties, as assigned.

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Qualifications of UN jobs in Kenya – SENIOR FINANCE AND BUDGET ASSISTANT:

• A high school diploma or equivalent is needed. Additional training or qualification in finance, budget or accounting is desirable.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively work-responsible background in finance, budget, accounting, administrative services or related area is required. The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced by two (2) years for candidates who possess a first level university degree.
• Work background with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system such as Oracle or SAP is required.
• Background in monitoring the financial performance of implementing partners is desirable.
• Background in developing guidelines/standard operating procedures and training materials is desirable.
• Background in an international organization such as the United Nations is desirable.
• One (1) year or more of background in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English is needed. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.

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