Finance Officer Job at World Health Organization

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Responsibilities:

• Organize the day-to-day budget and financial operations encompassing monitoring and clearance, financial accounting and reporting, work plan and award management including cash flow forecasting and monitoring, while liaising with relevant team members.

• Support the funding allocations and awards, prepare necessary forms for the awards’ cycle and implements all budgetary and financial actions in the Global Management System (GSM), this includes work plan funding requests, submission of award budgets, reprogramming of awards and preparation of expenditure batches, while ensuring speedy response to the incident management team’s financial requests. Ensure expenditures are appropriately charged to awards in line with the conditions in agreements with donors.

• Follow-up on donor proposals and reporting deadlines; verify and provide budgetary clearance to proposals and reports for resource mobilization team ensure compliance with relevant financial policies, procedures and emergency SOPs.

• Track and report on financing against budget: monitor implementation rates, consolidate financial data, prepare periodic/ad hoc budgetary and financial statements and returns, identify financial gaps, and recommend alternative action to mangers as appropriate.

• Update and maintain an accurate tracking system of all financial activities pertaining to the emergency preparedness, recovery and response operations at the country level.

• Ensure accurate recording of financial transactions, calculation and payment of salaries, allowances and other payments to staff, non-staff, contractors and vendors.

• Oversee imprest account management: analyse expenditures against approved allocations, reconcile cash books with bank statements.

• Brief/debrief staff members, consultants and WHO responders, on relevant financial and budgetary rules and procedures.

• Follow-up on any outstanding audit recommendations related to area of work.

• Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisorPerforms all other related duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education (Qualifications):

Essential: First university degree in accounting, financial management, business or public administration or economics with specialization in budgeting/accounting from an accredited/recognized institute.

Desirable: An advanced university degree in in business administration, finance, accounting, or public administration. Professional qualification or certification in accounting/accountancy (CPA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA or equivalent).

Experience:

Essential: A minimum of one year’ experience, working in finance, budget/accounting. Demonstrated experience in accounting and consolidation of financial data using ERP systems or similar.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

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Application Deadline: 7th March 2023.