Responsibilities

• Manages a complete financial operation, encompassing a wide variety of funding sources, a large volume of transactions, and extensive dispersed activities.
• Ensures accurate and complete accounting for assets and expenditure, timely recognition of revenues, timely recognition of Assets Under Construction, capitalization of tangible/intangible assets and timely reporting of budget implementation progress of capital expenditure projects being undertaken by the organization.
• Analyses and performs quality assurances of all General Ledger accounts, reviews/prepares regular financial reports. Proposes/implements solutions with respect to problem transactions, open item General Ledger Accounts and ensures resolution before closure of the financial year for accurate financial statement reporting.
• Ensures that accurate and complete accounting, reporting and internal control systems are functioning and that all relevant records are maintained.
• Prepares and consolidates financial statements and notes to the financial statements for entities supported by UNON under other Volumes and Volume 1 entities in line with International Public Sector Accounting Standards for inclusion in the UN Financial Statements for audit by the UN Board of Auditors.
• Acts as UNON Accounts Section focal point for responses to external audit observations and insure implementation of audit recommendations.
• Produces donor reports for UNEP and UN Habitat and analytical financial reports for management review and decision making.
• Provides substantive support to the development and implementation of new accounting standards and systems. Takes initiative to improve accounting processes and approaches.
• Provides data for the preparation of year-end performance reports.
• Guides, trains and supervises general service and professional staff in the function.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in finance, accounting or related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Professional qualification from a recognized accountancy body like Association of Chartered Accountants (ACA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Certified Public Accountants (CPA), or Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) is required.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Work Experience

• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience (with a Master’s degree) or 9 years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience in financial accounting in international organizations is required. Working experience with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and financial statement preparation is required.
• Experience in working with the voluntary contributions, trust funds and preparing donor reports and grants management is required.
• Working experience in a supervisor capacity with proof of performance management is desirable.
• Experience in administration of financial regulations and rules is desirable.
• Experience with complex accounting reconciliation, and management reporting is desirable.
• Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable