Budget and Finance Associate, GS-6, (Post # 95475), Operations, Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary 

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a calling. 

We are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not a job, it’s a calling.

UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) in Budapest, Hungary provides services to UNICEF offices globally in the areas of Finance, Human Resources, Payroll and Information Technology. For more information about GSSC please visit our webpage at Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC)  and check this YouTube.

How can you make a difference?

Join UNICEF Global Shared Service Center (GSSC)`s Operations section and play a vital role in supporting its budgetary and financial activities. The Budget and Finance Associate will be responsible for providing a variety of specialized tasks in budget and finance management, ensuring accurate and timely delivery that is in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research, adapt and evaluate irregular cases, and also to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.

Key functions, accountabilities, and related tasks:  

    1. Support to preparation, monitoring and management of the GSSC budget

2. Managing transactions pertaining to administration of operational budgets, contracts and commitments.

3. Reconciliation and data analysis

For further information please consult the detailed Job description  

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

• Completed secondary education (i.e.high school diploma) is required. University degree in business administration, finance, accounting or statistics is considered an asset.
• Minimum six years of professional experience in financial and budget management is required. Completed relevant bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution will be counted towards 3 years of the minimum work experience requirements. Experience in UNICEF operations is considered an asset.

• Knowledge of UN/UNICEF`s rules, regulations and procedures is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English (both spoken and written) is required. Knowledge of Hungarian language is required. Knowledge of another UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

As an advocate for every child, you will receive 

• UNICEF offers an attractive remuneration package including a tax-free annual net base salary starting HUF 587,257 per month. Please check SalCalcLocal (undp.org) for simulation.
• Holidays and leave, including 30 days of annual leaves per year
• Parental leave
• Dependency allowance
• United Nations sponsored medical insurance plan
• Pension plan
• Optional life insurance plan
• Access to professional development and learning programs, online learning and learning path
• Access to staff well-being support
• Access to career development support

Please visit Compensation and Benefit site on UNICEF Career page

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are… 

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.