Finance Assistant

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Job Description

Mission and objectives

UNICEF helps build a world where the rights of every child are fully realized. It is our conviction that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created in 1946 to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path. It has global authority to influence decision-makers, and a wide variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and Governments.

Context

The Finance Assistant UN Volunteer will be responsible for executing a broad variety of standardized administrative and financial tasks for the finance Unit, requiring thorough knowledge of UNICEF administrative and financial procedures, processes, and policies. The incumbent will perform a variety of data information gathering, input and manipulation, report generation and dissemination. The UN Volunteer assignment tasks will include but not limited to updating the payment monitoring tool and tracking, Reconciling and Monitoring Mobile payments. The UN Volunteer will work closely with programme sections in the delivery of the results for children.

The objective of the UN Volunteer assignment is to strengthen data collection to generate meaningful statistics to track finance performance and improve quality and efficiency of processes.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Finance Officer, the Finance Assistant will undertake the following tasks:

Support the Finance Assistant in updating and maintaining schedule of direct payments made on the cash handling long term agreements-LTA’s;
Support Finance Assistant to reconcile and process recalls of unspent funds from service providers (Mobile Network Operators-MNO’s);
Support the Finance Assistant in ensuring that all cash disbursements are retired with supporting documentation;
Working closely with Finance Assistant to review and monitor paysheets of all direct payments;
Assist in maintaining an online filing system of all retirements such as money paysheets and cash in transit acquittal sheets;
Support Finance Assistant in updating the payment monitoring tool by obtaining information to measure efficiency in payment processing;
Working closely with Finance Officer to review all payment forecasts on a weekly basis.

Requirements

Required experience

1 years of experience in finance or accounting.

• Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment;
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel;
• Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.);
• Experience working in the UN or other international development organization is an added advantage.

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