Finance Associate, GMAT, Finance Branch, Division for Management Services, New York, G-6

NOTE: This is a local position based in New York, USA. Candidates must possess one of the following at the time of their application: a valid G-4 visa acquired through employment within the UN system, United States citizenship, or valid United States permanent residency.

The Position:

The Finance Associate position is located within the Global Monitoring and Advisory Team (GMAT), 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 Finance Specialist, under the overall supervision of the Head of GMAT. 

The Global Monitoring and Advisory Team is responsible for providing guidance and support to UNFPA field offices (FOs) in the areas of financial management and accounting. This function includes monitoring financial performance on an exception basis, and providing guidance and training to maintain and improve global financial management practices, especially in the areas of management of cash disbursements through third parties, petty cash and advances to implementing partners for programming. As part of these functions, GMAT also oversees the accurate recording of general ledger information for these areas and ensures financial data quality.

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026-2029 articulates the organization’s response to a complex global environment, providing a roadmap for resilience and renewal. It is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This mandate is pursued through a focus on four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender-based violence and harmful practices; and adapting to demographic change through evidence and rights-based policies. 

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 who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact and sustained results and ensure effective external relations, communications, and partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:

The Finance Associate provides support, guidance and oversight to UNFPA field offices and Headquarter Units in the areas of financial management and accounting. The Finance Associate adopts a client-oriented approach and contributes to implementation of the Finance Branch workplan.

You would be responsible for: 

1. Partnerships, Knowledge management, Communication and Training

• Actively participate in Finance Branch and team meetings.
• Maintain active and positive relationships with key partners for GMAT, including field based staff, and other headquarters units. 
• 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.
• Actively contribute to knowledge transfers within the branch. 

2. Business continuity activities

• Support the review of reports received from implementing partners engaged by Headquarters units and International NGOs in the field, to ensure reporting requirements have been met. 
• Provide guidance, support, and timely responses to queries from UNFPA Business Units through the Global Service Desk.

3. Support and guidance to offices on financial management 

• Monitor dashboards for assigned financial accounts to determine when financial management challenges and successes need to be communicated with offices.
• Monitor funds for closure, ensure requirements have been met and/ or engage bu