Accounting Assistant

Org. Setting and Reporting

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund was established in 1949 by the United Nations General Assembly to provide retirement, death, disability, and related benefits for staff of the United Nations and other member organizations of the Fund. The Pension Fund pays benefits in 17 currencies to more than 80,000 beneficiaries who reside in 190 countries, and services more than 140,000 participants who work in the 24 member organizations of the Pension Fund. The Fund has offices in New York (United States) and Geneva (Switzerland) and two liaison offices in Nairobi (Kenya) and Bangkok (Thailand), respectively. The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund-Pension Administration (UNJSPF-PA) comprises about 250 staff from diverse countries and cultures, based across four prominent duty stations (New York, Geneva, Bangkok, and Nairobi). We are a career employer offering unique opportunities for growth within the United Nations system. Our office is located in the heart of Manhattan, within walking distance from the Grand Central Station hub, in a state-of-the-art facility (the One Dag Hammarskjöld building). Visit www.unjspf.org for more details. This position is located the Payments Section of the Financial Services within the Pension Administration of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF). The incumbent reports to the Chief of Miscellaneous Payments Unit under the general supervision by the Chief of Payments Section. The Payments Section manages monthly payroll for the UNJSPF periodic benefits, updates cost-of-living adjustments, and administers returned payments and Accounts Payable.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Accounting Assistant will be responsible for the following duties:

• Records and reconciles more complex accounting transactions.
• Examines and records actions performed in the workflow and routes to auditors.
• Reconciles more complex bank accounts in various currencies.
• Assists in the processing of monthly payroll closing, cost-of-living adjustments, and AP accounting. This includes, amongst other things, calculating, inputting, and checking payments for correctness and communicating discrepancies to supervisors.
• Assists in processing payments to UNJSPF beneficiaries for their entitlements. Type of transactions are all payroll and miscellaneous payments such as PI update, suspension, reinstatement, deletion, and reissuance payments.
• Assists 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.
• Assists with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures.
• Drafts/prepares communication to UNJSPF pension beneficiaries and to relevant other work units in the UNJSPF and prints/mails out mass communication letters.
• Responds to queries from staff members and third parties.
• Performs other duties as may be required.

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Work Experience

• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, finance or related area is required. The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced to 3 for candidates who possess a first-level university degree or higher. Experience in pension-related fields is desirable. Experience in preparing international (SWIFT) payments is desirable. Experience in payroll processing is desirable. 1 year or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/243487?language=en