United Nations Secretariat Finance and Budget Officer Jobs 2022 – Kenya NGO Jobs. United Nations Secretariat Kenya looking for “Finance and Budget Officer”. Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before 31st March 2022.
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United Nations Secretariat Finance and Budget Officer Jobs 2022
The United Nations Secretariat has published a job vacancy announcement on 26th March 2022 for qualified Kenyans to fill in the vacant post of Finance and Budget Officer to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
| Recruiter | United Nations Secretariat |
| Position | Finance and Budget Officer |
| Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Country | Kenya |
| Total Vacant Post | 22 |
| Qualification | University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Five years |
| Application Deadline | 31st March 2022 |
United Nations Secretariat Job Vacancy 2022
Job Responsibilities:
- Prepares cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of mission’s resourcing requirements such as a staff and non-staff requirements, including programmatic aspects, reviews, analyses and revises data with respect to the finalization of budget proposal as well as Result Based Budgeting inputs.
- Provides support to programme/fund center managers with respect to the elaboration of resources requirements for budget submissions.
- Administrates the mission’s allotments in accordance with the established procedures redeployment/reallocation of funds.
- Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.
- Ensures the sufficient and effective use of budgetary resources through robust monitoring of budget utilization of the approved budget and timely provision of information to the Mission management for decision making.
- Prepares the budget performance report of the mission and ensures that correct and accurate data and information are provided in compliance with the Controller’s instructions. Reviews and finalizes the performance report ensuring adequate variance explanations between approved budgets and actual expenditures.
- Acts as a Certifying Officer for the Mission within authority delegated by the Head of Mission.
- Ensures that expenditures are incurred in compliance with the financial policy framework of the United Nations.
- Reviews all requisitions for goods and services to ensure correct objects of expenditure have been charged and ensures availability of funds; verifies that appropriate relevant supporting documents have been provided for the processing of payment for goods and services.
- Ensures that only valid year-end budget commitments are carried forward.
Position in Organization:
- Posting Title: FINANCE AND BUDGET OFFICER, P3
- Job Code Title: FINANCE AND BUDGET OFFICER
- Department/Office: Office Of The Special Envoy Of The Secretary-General On The Great Lakes Region
- Duty Station: NAIROBI
- Posting Period: 25 March 2022 – 31 March 2022
- Job Opening Number: 22-Finance-SESG-177893-F-Nairobi (R)
- Staffing Exercise: N/A
Qualification:
- An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or in a related area. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience in accounting, budget, and finance, may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in finance, budget, accounting, business administration is required.
- Experience in cost management, budget formulation, financial monitoring, accounting, audit,
- financial reporting, or other related areas is required.
- Experience with Financial Systems/financial modules of enterprise resource planning (ERP)
- such as oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft is required.
- Experience in translating strategies into financial plans and operations is desirable.
- Experience working with international or multi-national organizations is desirable.
- Experience in budgetary functions, cost recovery, monitoring of complex projects/programmes and trust fund management within UN system is desirable.
How to Apply United Nations Secretariat Finance and Budget Officer Jobs 2022
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=177893
The Closing Date: 31st March 2022.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.un.org |
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