Finance Assistant, (GS-5), Tegucigalpa, Honduras

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

Duty Station: UNICEF Honduras
Post level: GS-5
Type: Fixed-Term

For every child, a champion

How can you make a difference?

The Finance Assistant will be responsible for providing a variety of specialized tasks in finance functions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery in compliance with UNICEF financial rules and regulations, whilst demonstrating the capacity to research and evaluate irregular cases, and to recommend improvements to process delivery and design.

Preparation of cost sharing/attribution for allocation of operating expenses

At the G-6 level, the below tasks are expected to be carried out with a high level of independence

1. Ensures implementation of operational strategies, adapts processes and procedures focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Full compliance with rules and regulations of financial processes, financial records and reports and audit follow up; implementation of the effective internal control framework.
•    CO Finance business processes mapping and elaboration of the content of internal Standard Operating Procedures in Finance in consultation with the direct supervisor and office management.

   2. Ensures Financial Reporting and performs quality assurance

• Advise and assist on all aspects related to preparation of reports, compilation of data and answering queries on pledges recorded, funds received, adjustments made to ensure financial compliance, accuracy and completeness of data for its inclusion into statement of accounts and adjustment of budgets.
• Advise units of discrepancies and assist to resolve differences in their records. Selects and enters data from a wide variety of documents, verifying and ensuring accuracy by checking sources, making necessary calculations and assuring inclusion of all relevant data

   3. Ensures accuracy and timely maintenance of accounts

• Maintain financial records and monitoring systems to record and reconcile expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other data for day-to-day transactions and reports.
• Initiate correspondence to verify data, answers queries and obtains additional information on accounts and financial transactions, as required.
• Close year-end account and assist in the preparation of year-end reports related to accounts receivable, accounts payable, prepayment, deposits, NEP and leave balances, etc.  

   4. Ensures Dashboards and Performance Reports are within agreed benchmarks

• Prepare recurring reports as schedules and ad hoc reports, as required for budget preparation, audits or other reasons.
• Follow up InSight dashboards and Closure of Accounts status, flags discrepancies and seeks prompt resolution

   5. Ensures effective relations with banking officials and vendors

• Maintains liaisons with officials of local banks to obtain day-to-day information on exchange and interest rates, changes in procedures and regulations, and matters pertaining to maintenance of office bank accounts.  This includes prepares recurring reports and bank reconciliation.

   6. Performs costing and budgeting calculations

• Prepares detailed cost estimates, and participates in costing, budget formulation and analysis exercises as required. 

   7. Facilitates knowledge building and knowledge sharing

• Organization of learning sessions for staff on Finance.
• Systematic capturing of lessons learnt and good practices in Finance to share among LACR COs communities of practitioners.

To qualify as a champion  for every child you will have…

• Completion of secondary education is required with professional/university level courses in Accounting and Finance/Business administration considered as a valuable asset.
  
  
• A minimum of five years of experience in finance and accounting is required. Solid experience with ERPs (SAP, Oracle) and Microsoft standard office suit (Excel, Word, PowerPoint medium level).  
  
  
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
  
  
• Fluency in English and Spanish. 

For every Child, you demonstrate…

Our core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.