Finance Associate, Revenue and Donor Reporting, Finance Branch, Division for Management Services, New York, G-6

Local Position: Candidates for this position must have a valid G-4 visa at the time of their application and whose G4 visa has been acquired on account of their employment in the UN system, or be USA Citizen or have a valid USA Permanent residency.

 

The Position:

The Finance Associate position is located within the Revenue and Donor Reporting (RDRU) Team, Finance Branch of the Division for Management Services. 

The Finance Branch is responsible for global finance and accounting including providing guidance and oversight for financial management to country, regional and headquarters offices. The Branch advances and owns key financial policies and processes, statutory and donor reporting, treasury services, and ensuring the ERP and related systems are configured to implement, manage, and report on key financial processes. The incumbent will report to the Head of RDRU. 

The Revenue and Donor Reporting Team is responsible for providing guidance and support to UNFPA field offices and headquarter locations in the areas of treasury services management and revenue accounting, as well as providing reporting on the use of UNFPA’s resources to donors. UNFPA contracts the services of a UN Agency for its treasury function, but retains oversight of liquidity and cash flow, the use of bank accounts and foreign exchange currency considerations. RDRU performs essential business continuity functions in the application of deposits and the provision of bridge funding. The donor reporting functions reviews and analyses financial clauses in agreements with donors and prepares certified reporting to donors on the use of financial resources provides to UNFPA. As part of these functions, RDRU also oversees the accurate recording of general ledger information for revenue accounts and ensures financial data quality.

 

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

 

Job Purpose:

The Finance Associate works closely with other members of RDRU and the wider Finance Branch, as well as members of the Resource Mobilisation Branch (RMB) and colleagues in field offices. The position works in the area of statutory and donor reporting to ensure UNFPA meets its reporting obligations in the provision of high quality, accurate and timely financial reports;  performs accounting controls, including the analysis and reconciliation of general ledger accounts and monitoring of the integrity and completeness of financial information; processes donor refund payments; supports the preparation and certification of financial reports and engages field colleagues in guidance and learning.

 

You would be responsible for:

1.Partnerships, Knowledge management, Communication and Training

• Actively participate in Finance Branch and team meetings, including in learning and knowledge sharing.
• Maintain active and positive relationships with key partners for RDRU, including the Resource Mobilisation Branch (RMB), Brussels Office (BO) Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU) and field offices.
• Provide financial training and facilitate knowledge transfers with the global community based on financial/operations procedures or guidance notes, which may be delivered remotely or in the field.
• Contribute to the global financial management community facilitated by the Finance Branch

2. Business continuity activities

• Provide business continuity support to the RDRU team on deposit