• Analyse, evaluate and monitor a variety of complex financial documents, accounts to identify and investigate anomalies or wrongly posted transactions and to determine corrective action. These may include general ledger accounts, such as: major operating bank accounts; requests for replenishments of field bank accounts; field imprest accounts; development cooperation budgets; payment requests related to the project.
• Carry out all operations required for expenditures under development cooperation funding, ensuring the most rational use of the funds. This includes making calculations, requesting funds, checking supporting justifying documents and making payments. Review and request additional information on the financial reports of project implementing partners, ensuring compliance with ILO rules financial reporting guidelines, before submitting to the Finance Unit.
• Assist in monitoring accounts regarding allocations and expenditures and makes adjustments to optimise utilisation of the funds. Draft and clear administrative correspondence relative to budgetary matters to verify data, answer queries and obtain additional information. Maintain project financial records and monitoring systems to record and reconcile expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other data for daily transactions and reports.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates and budgetary forecasts. Prepare background information, periodic and ad hoc reports for use in programme and budget preparations. Participate in budget analysis and projections as required and provides information upon request. In addition, participate in the preparation of financial data to be included in Financial Report and Audited Financial statements. Prepare recurring reports as scheduled and special reports as required for donor reporting, for budget preparation, audits or other reasons.

Qualification:

• Completion of secondary school education with formal training in accounting and/or finance and administrative field

Experience:

• At least six years of progressively responsible financial and administrative work, and some training in an administrative field. Experience in donor funded projects and with the UN system or an International NGO and in addition experience of working with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a strong advantage.