With offices in Copenhagen, Kuala Lumpur, Dakar, Amman, Panama City and Istanbul, the Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) services over 180 countries, 40,000 personnel and more than 40 other UN Agencies and Organizations. Through its functional service lines, GSSC ensures high quality and timely delivery of human resources, financial and procurement services as well as information and innovative tools to its various clients and stakeholders.

 

The GSSC is led by the Director, who reports to the Director of Bureau for Management Services (BMS). Reporting to the Finance Specialist/Analyst, the Finance Associate works collaboratively within the GSSC Finance Service Delivery Teams with a client-oriented approach.

 

 

1.) Ensures implementation of operational and financial management strategies, and adapts processes and procedures, focusing on the achievement of the full compliance of financial activities, financial recording/reporting systems and audit follow-ups with UN/UNDP rules, regulations, policies and strategies.

 

2.) Ensures proper control of accounts which includes the detailed elaboration of expenditures control system which ensures that vouchers processed are matched and completed, transactions are correctly recorded and posted, receipting of goods and services and establishment of accruals are properly done in compliance with IPSAS and UNDP policies and procedures.

 

3.)  Ensure timely review and approval of accounting transactions, including application of income processed and validated through adequate controls; formulates SOPs for these processes.

 

4.)  Manages the team in a professional manner, in respect of UNDP principles, and to maintain the excellence of the GSSC. Propose process and system re-engineering to Finance Specialist and ensure optimization initiatives/work plans are implemented to adapt to the evolution of the organization and provides yearly improvements.

 

5.)  Communicates clearly and openly with the Finance Management Teams and with GSSC clients, based on facts. Ensure client priorities and constraints are well understood and ensures also that clients understand and are aware of the extent of GSSC authorities.

 

 

Core

Achieve Results:

 

 LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work

Think Innovatively:

 

 LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking

Learn Continuously

 

 LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning

Adapt with Agility

 

 LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process

Act with Determination

 LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously

Engage and Partner

 

 LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion

 

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies 

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Finance

Audit (General)

  • Understands how regulations and professional standards in internal and external audit underpin audit work in the public services. 
  • Understands the key stages of audit work, including planning, documentation, testing and reporting. Ability to examine and verify accounts and records. 
  • Understands wider mechanisms for assurance and scrutiny. 
  • Understands the law and best practice relating to anti-bribery and corruption controls and the fraud risks faced by public bodies.

Finance

Accounting (General)

  • Knowledge of accounting concepts, principles, frameworks, standards, regulations, policies and trends, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situations.

Finance

Financial planning and budgeting

  • Ability to create and manage processes to achieve UNDP's long and short-term financial goals, including through planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysing and reporting.

Finance

Financial reporting and analysis

  • Understands changes in regulatory, legal and ethical frameworks and standards for financial reporting in the public sector. Ability to extract, evaluate financial data, derive relevant findings and present them in a meaningful and coherent manner to facilitate effective decision making and performance monitoring. 
  • Understands the benefits of integrated reporting, including non-financial resources such as human, social and intellectual capital, and environmental and governance performance.

Business Development

Knowledge Generation

  • Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.

Business Direction and Strategy

Business Acumen

  • Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization and ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks.

Business Management

Operations Management

  • Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.
  • Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms.

 

 

Education

  • Advanced (Masters) University Degree in Finance or Accounting, or a professional accounting qualification from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy. Those with professional accounting qualifications from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy will have a distinct advantage.
  • Long-listed candidates may be required to undergo the UNDP Advanced Accountancy & Finance Test.

Experience, Knowledge, and Skills

  • A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in financial accounting.
  • Experience in managing and supporting external clients.
  • Recent experience in supervising teams.
  • Experience in the usage of computers and MS Office packages.  Advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages. 
  • Working knowledge of ERP systems, particularly Peoplesoft Atlas or Oracle Cloud, is an advantage
  • Experience of IPSAS and/or IFRS is required for external candidates. 

Language Requirements

  • Fluency in English. Working knowledge of other UN language (French/Spanish/Arabic) desirable.

 

 

Important applicant information

Internal mobility at GSSC is strongly encouraged and we reserve the right to reassign the newly appointed staff members with similar skillset and educational qualifications for similar functions and job categories at the same level in GSSC. The internal lateral movements will be determined based on the needs of the organization while allowing the newly recruits to broaden their skills, build networks and gain fresh experience and to better align their profiles with the jobs.

All posts in the NO categories are subject to local recruitment.

Applicant information about UNDP rosters

Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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Contract Duration: 2 Year with possibility for extension

This vacancy is archived.

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