Finance Senior Analyst - Financial Statements and Board of Auditors relations
Copenhagen
- Organization: UNOPS - United Nations Office for Project Services
- Location: Copenhagen
- Grade: ICS 09
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Occupational Groups:
- Banking and Finance
- Impact investing, Social venture capital
- Closing Date: 2025-11-25
General Information
Job Highlight
About the Project Office
This posting is for internal candidates only
About the Group
The Finance Group serves as a strategic partner and fiduciary advisor, ensuring transparent, accountable, and effective resource management across UNOPS. The Group defines financial strategy in alignment with organizational goals, establishes finance policies, systems, and processes, and leads corporate budgeting to enable full cost recovery and ensure long-term financial sustainability. Throughout the project lifecycle, the Finance Group provides expert guidance, oversight, and tailored financial solutions. Responsibilities include delivering comprehensive financial and corporate performance reporting, strengthening financial capacity across the organization, and continuously enhancing resource planning and allocation. In addition, the Finance Group prepares and oversees the implementation of finance-related policies, upholding the highest standards of financial stewardship and supporting UNOPS in achieving operational excellence and fiscal responsibility.
Job Specific Context
This announcement is for internal candidates only.
The Finance Group (FG) is a critical and strategic business function in UNOPS and serves as an authoritative and integrated partner in the organization on strategic financial planning and budgeting, business strategy and practices, financial analysis and risk assessment, financial management services and long term organizational treasury and investments. As the steward of resources of a self-financing UN entity, FG is accountable for timely cost recovery and reporting to partners, maintaining the integrity and transparency of financial management of resources in accordance with the highest standards of ethics and organizational/international accountability framework and the accurate and transparent financial reporting to governing bodies, clients, partners and stakeholders.
Role Purpose
The key results have an impact on the overall Financial Group efficiency in financial resources management and success in introduction and implementation of operational strategies. Accurate, thoroughly researched and documented financial information, timely and appropriate delivery of services ensure client satisfaction and enhance UNOPS credibility in use of financial resources.
Functions / Key Results Expected
Financial Oversight and Monitoring
Corporate Financial Statements and Audit
Capacity Building / System Improvements
Financial Oversight and Monitoring
Review reconciliation submissions and account balances to ensure recording and reporting compliance in accordance with UNOPS Financial Rules and Regulations and other applicable Organizational Directives and Operational Instructions.
Coordinate and follow up with related parties and prepare issue reports for escalation
Support in quarterly and year-end financial closure processes
Review, monitoring and consolidation of UNOPS provision for bad debts, write off and contingent assets/liabilities and liaison with respective offices for timely updates
Review of finance data in General Ledger for completeness, accuracy, and correctness of accounting entries including Lease management and inventories
Exercise periodic monitoring and oversight on transactions and account balances in respective areas to ensure recording and reporting is made in accordance with UNOPS Financial Rules and Regulations and other applicable Organizational Directives and Operational Instructions
Contribute to developing and maintaining strong control environment around financial reporting
Maintain a log of issues identified, collect and update data to consolidate and complete the issue log
Raise or review transactions in UNOPS ERP and any other cross functional support as needed
Corporate Financial Statements and Audit
Regular review and oversight on the IPSAS classification of projects within UNOPS to ensure an appropriate basis of revenue recognition is in place, in compliance with IPSAS standards
Assist the Specialist in preparation of interim and year-end corporate financial statements, by consolidating data, preparing working files and supporting schedules for notes to the financial statements
Provide support to the audit focal person during internal and external audit processes and new accounting standards as required
Prepare quantitative and qualitative analysis on interim and year-end corporate financial statements to report to UNOPS management and other stakeholders
Support in implementation of new systems and ERP
Capacity Building / System Improvements
Support in continuously improving and refining UNOPS financial processes to reduce manual work and enhance efficiency
Support process documentation and continuous improvements in the corporate system (Policy and Process Portal)
Maintain a log of issues identified, analyze data based on lessons learned and related dashboards
Become a subject matter expert in the UNOPS ERP system (OneUNOPS)
Contribute to the preparation of training materials in accordance to IPSAS standards and UNOPS Financial Rules & Regulations and deliver training sessions to finance practice members
Ad-hoc tasks as assigned
Skills
Competencies
Education Requirements
Required
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Finance, Economics, and Business Administration, International Business, Management or other finance-related field or related fields with 4 years of relevant experience OR
Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 2 years of relevant experience is required
Desired
Professional certification in accounting (CA, CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, etc.), audit (CIA) or equivalent is desired.
Experience Requirements
Required
Minimum 4 years of relevant experience is work in audit, accounting and/or financial reporting or related areas.
Desired
Experience working with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is desired.
Experience and knowledge of UNOPS financial rules and regulations is desired.
Working knowledge of ERP is desired.
Language Requirements
| Language | Proficiency Level | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| English | Fluent | Required |
| French | Fluent | Desirable |
| Spanish | Fluent | Desirable |
Additional Information
- Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes.
- Please note that UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.
- Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
- Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments.
- UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. UNOPS seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce.
- Qualified women and candidates from groups which are underrepresented in the UNOPS workforce are encouraged to apply. These include in particular candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.
- We would like to ensure all candidates perform at their best during the assessment process. If you are shortlisted and require additional assistance to complete any assessment, including reasonable accommodation, please inform our human resources team when you receive an invitation.
Terms and Conditions
- For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post.
- For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses (they take around 4 hours to complete) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here.
- For more details about the contract types, please click here.
- All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda.
- It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.