Budget Specialist

How can you make a difference? 

Under the supervision of the Chief, Resource Analysis and Decision Support:

Manages, coordinates & monitors budget issuance

• Creates and issues budget allotments.
• Posts budget adjustments to record additional contribution, increase/decrease due to revaluation, write-off, refund, rephase, etc.
• Ensures the information on Country Program Documents (CPD’s) approved by the Executive Board is correctly recorded.

Maintains Master Data

• Acts as primary liaison between teams, divisions, and offices on the maintenance of programme structures and programmatic coding.
• Creates/maintains Work Breakdown Structure in VISION globally.
• Backs up creation of other master data such as cost centers, fund centers, commitment items, and other associated structures.

Participates and leads in the development of budget and planning systems

• Contributes towards preparation of business requirements and solution design for the new planning and budgeting systems.
• Evaluates and recommends improvements in the existing business processes and systems.
• Tests and provides constructive feedback during the development phase and also during regular enhancements.
• Provides support to country, regional and headquarter divisions.

Supports the line manager with regards to reporting and financial analysis

• Provides analysis and inputs for the preparation of Executive Board documents.
• Provides regular and ad-hoc reports and analysis for audit, presentations and decision-making processes.
• Provides analysis and regular reporting related to cost distribution mechanisms and trends.

Participates in the Year End closing processes

• Actively works with other members of the DSU team on the year end carry forward of budget and commitments exercise.
• Works with the team on the preparation of the B2A (Budget to Actual Statement) and all associated supporting documents.
• Assists Donor Reporting Unit in grants analysis for Financial and Technical grants closure.

Any other duties and tasks assigned by the supervisor including preparation of analyses, studies and other ad-hoc reporting requirements.

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An advanced university degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration, or university degree plus a minimum of seven (7) years of work experience in Finance or Budgeting.
• Work Experience: A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels, in Financial or Management accounting, or a directly related field(s) is required.

Skills: 

• In-depth Knowledge of SAP (FI, FM or HR) is required.
• Previous work experience within an international organization is highly desirable.
• Be able to demonstrate strong analytical, financial and interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is considered an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/574985