• Contribute towards the development of plans, processes and procedures ensuring compliance with wider budget programming policies for WFP Somalia CO.
• Create and review project budget plans and monitor ongoing project performance against budget, ensuring adherence to guidance and policies, and providing financial analysis and advice to optimize resources.
• Create and review budget and project documentation, and ensure relevant resource data is recorded in internal systems for reference, in line with WFP standards and procedures
• Proactively contribute ideas to senior officers for improvement to systems, techniques, tools, processes, and procedures to better monitor and manage budgets and funds.

Resource Management

• Monitor and provide advice on fund utilization, and advance financing, loan and borrowing/ repayment and refinancing arrangements, alerting Country Directors and CO Leadership team to approaching deadlines for unassigned funds and potential resource shortfalls/surpluses and proposing appropriate solutions.
• Monitor and provide advice on actions related to project closure and resource transfer.
• Represent the unit at internal meetings/committees/working groups as required, to obtain and provide information from a budget and resource programming perspective

Pipeline Management

• Monitor the resource pipeline to maximize operational effectiveness, following standards and processes, and providing advice on resource allocations based on severity of pipeline shortfalls using relevant pipeline tools.
• Support the preparation of food-demand plans to support management and usage of corporate Global Commodity Financial Facility and provide information to guide RB/HQ decision-making when multiple projects compete for the same stock.

Reporting

• Collate and analyze data for the preparation of accurate and timely reports, to enable informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to senior management and external stakeholders.
• Provide regular reports progress on WFP Projects under the different SO’s and for donor grants.
• Review and update CO specific reports, including- donor reports, executive briefs and sitreps for both external and internal audiences, ensuring data consistency across a wide range of reporting material

Other

• Support the capacity building of WFP staff in budgeting, fund management and operational planning through answering queries and updating training materials, manuals, and guidelines.
• Supervise GS staff.
• Perform other relevant duties as required.

Qualifications, Experience And Skills Required

• Education: Advanced University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or other relevant field, Or first University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or Training/courses.
• Experience: At least 3 years of postgraduate progressively responsively professional experience in financial, budgeting and accounting Systems in commercial enterprises, national governments, or international organizations.