Senior Digital Finance Associate

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Description

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The Eastern and Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) of World Health Organization aims to streamline, fast-track, and directly pay its frontline health workers, vaccinators and other beneficiaries in their bank accounts or mobile money accounts. The Direct Disbursement Mechanism (DDM) that has been implemented in Pakistan and Afghanistan has shown increased transparency, efficiency, and speed of payment directly to community health workers and service providers. Budget and Finance Services (BFS), part of the Department of Business Operations (BOS) in EMRO, is entrusted with ensuring compliance with WHO’s financial regulations and rules, policies and procedures and maintaining strong internal controls to effectively discharge WHO’s accountability obligations to Member States and donors. Digital Finance is one of the initiatives supported by BFS for digitizing and delivering bulk payments in a transparent, speedy and compliant manner.

Duties:

• Coordinate processes for end-to-end digitization of transactions and bulk payments to beneficiaries and service providers of campaign and other programme activities.
• Prepare and update the database of beneficiaries, services and rate cards, and ensure proper approvals and authorizations in the system.
• As the focal point for the digital finance, work with different networks, banking institutions, consultants, accounting firms, and financial service providers to coordinate different activities of digital financing initiative.
• Act as a liaison between the digital finance team and country office to coordinate different activities including procurement, disbursement, meetings and workshops.
• Plan and organize trainings in close coordination with digital finance and technology teams for building knowledge, skills and capacities for digital payments.
• Coordinate and conduct reconciliations, prepare reports and assist the digital finance team in assurance activities for smooth and compliant digital finance operations in the Regional Office/Country Office.
• Assist the digital finance team in organizing surveys, monitoring activities, addressing operational, technical and disbursement issues to ensure overall smooth implementation of digital finance and payments activities.
• Address queries of vaccinators, health workers, beneficiaries and vendors relating to payments and reconciliations.
• Participate in developing an exit strategy and mainstreaming digital finance and payments within the programme/country programme and routine financial operations.

Required Qualifications:
Education
Essential:

• Completion of secondary school with additional training in financial and administrative transactions in an automated environment.

Experience:
Essential:

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in applying administrative and financial policies and procedures in payments or other related transactions, or in finance and accounting activities of campaigns and large programmes.

Skills:

• Demonstrated knowledge of WHO policies, procedures, systems, work methods and practices.
• Ability to understand, interpret and apply complex policies, procedures, rules, regulations and SOPs and promote best practices by advocating the same.
• Coordinate with a diverse team and provide clear communication on complex matters.
• Problem solving and ability to maintain good working relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Delivering quality results in pressing situations and competing priorities.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent drafting skills.

Language Skills:
Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Arabic .

Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2308709

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