Senior Finance and Budget Assistant

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UNEP Senior Finance and Budget Assistant Jobs Kenya 2024: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced a new vacancy for the position of “Senior Finance and Budget Assistant” in Nairobi, Kenya. This is an excellent opportunity for young professionals and students those looking to gain hands-on experience. Applications must be submitted by Nov 16th, 2024. Interested candidates should include a current CV or resume, a cover letter, relevant experience, and academic transcripts (if applicable). Before applying, carefully review the eligibility criteria and job responsibilities below.

UNEP Senior Finance and Budget Assistant Jobs

UNEP Senior Finance and Budget Assistant Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs

Position: Senior Finance and Budget Assistant

Organization: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Application Deadline: Nov 16th, 2024

Job Responsibilities

Monitor and report on the financial performance of the corporate funding agreements including, budget implementation/expenditures, allotments, reallocation and re-phasal of funds and ensures compliance with relevant regulations, rules, policies and guidelines, as well as the funding agreements in collaboration with other finance and budget staff.

• Provide up-to-date financial information and income analysis for the Section’s intranet website and UNEP’s website.

• Assist funding partners, staff members, Fund Management Officers and Programme Managers regarding queries on contributions, payments and deposits relating to income on corporate funding agreements and Environment Fund.

• Keep up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to resource mobilisation and income analysis ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures.

• Provide guidance, training and daily supervision to interns in the area of responsibility relating to income on Environment Fund and other sources of funding.

• Draft or directly responds to enquiries from funding partners and colleagues in respect to relevant financial and budget matters.

• Assist 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.

• Assist with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures.

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Eligibility Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent is required.

A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in finance, budget, accounting, administrative services or related area is required.

The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced to eight (8) years for candidates who possess a first level university degree or higher.

Experience in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) accounting and finance system and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is required.

Experience in preparation, analysis and presentation of financial reports using MS Excel in a public sector or international organization is required.

Experience working with UN or similar international organization is desirable One (1) year or more experience in corporate data analytics tools (e.g. Power BI, Qlik, Self-Service Analytics) is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.

For the post advertised, fluency in English is required.

NOTE: ‘Fluency’ equals a rating of ‘fluent’ in all four areas (speak, read, write and understand) and ‘Knowledge of’ equals a rating of ‘confident’ in two of the four areas.

How to Apply UNEP Senior Finance and Budget Assistant Jobs Kenya 2024?

All Interested candidates carefully review the job requirements and submit their applications before the deadline. Applications should include:

  1. A current CV or resume
  2. A cover letter detailing motivation and relevant experience (if applicable)
  3. Academic transcripts (if applicable)

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Updated: October 21, 2024 — 8:10 AM
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