Budget Consultant

Consultant

Overview

Provide budget planning and management support.

You have:

• Master’s degree in Financial Management, Economics, Business, Public Administration, or other related area.
• A first-level university degree in combination with 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in financial planning, budget management and operations.
• At least 3 years in a large international and/or corporate organization preferably in the UN system and its organizations.
• Fluency in oral and written English is required.
• Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.

Contract

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

The Strategy, Planning, Resources and Effectiveness Division formulates corporate strategies aligned to the corporate objectives, promote transparent budget planning of resources from all funding sources in line organization priorities and advocates fiduciary integrity by ensuring that internal controls and risk management are fully in place. The Division monitors and reports on corporate programmes and budget implementation to ensure coherent achievement of results in keeping with the UN Women Strategic Plan and United Nations Strategic Framework. The Division also ensures coherent and integrated strategic analysis, planning and budgeting across UN Women while providing advice to senior management.

The Budget Consultant reports to the Chief of Budget for guidance and supervision and is responsible for providing support in budget planning, preparation, allocation, management and monitoring to ensure the availability and effective and optimum utilization of UNW financial resources according to plans and approved allocation and compliance with UNW financial regulations and rules, policies and procedures to meet UNW commitments, goals and objectives.

The Budget Consultant is required to support the Budget Unit in handling activities and tasks specially with the increased workload due to the corporate deliverables in 2021 as they relate to: SP 2022-2025 activities, the preparation of Integrated Budget 2022-2023, the preparation of Programme Budget, the New ERP Project (NextGenERP), in addition to the year-end closure and UNBoA activities. The Budget Consultant will be responsible for different tasks including but not limited to the oversight, monitoring and reporting of IB, Core and Reserve resources, such as fund allocation, revisions to centrally management projects in Atlas and RMS. In addition, the consultant is expected to support the revision of the Cost Recovery Policy and guidance as well as prepare an analysis of DPMC costs over the past four years. The Budget Consultant will also act as the Budget Unit’s focal point and support internal clients on providing technical and/or advisory support as needed. She/he will also coordinate financial reporting for the regular budget and be responsible for carrying out similar functions for other types of budgets funded from core and non-core resources. The Budget Consultant will also provide the required support and back to the Budget team in the NExtGenERP project and formulation of the Integrated Budget, as applicable.

Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support in budget planning, analysis and management:
  • Analyze past/current fiscal operations, estimate revenues and expenditures, evaluate trends in patterns of resource allocations, analyze records of present/past operations, analyze budget proposals for budgetary objectives and present thoroughly researched information/conclusions/recommendations, including reports containing an analysis of the office’s financial situation (expenditures versus budget allocations) to facilitate budget preparation, planning and approval processes;
  • Support the budget planning, analysis and management of the budgets
  • Review and clear financial reports to the UN for the regular budget
• Provide technical support in budget monitoring, oversight and control:
  • Identify operational and financial bottlenecks in budget management and approval and resolve problems and/or recommend solutions;
  • Monitor budgetary status versus authorized spending limits and budget delivery results. Take appropriate and timely action to ensure compliance;
  • Prepare and modify budgets for UNW management projects to ensure expenditures within authorized spending limits. Take action in cases of variances;
  • Review requests from offices and recommend actions;
  • Process year-end budget “rephasal” to ensure estimated expenditures are reflected in the current year budget and unspent funds are rephrased to future year/s;
  • Prepare GL journal entries
• Provide Advisory support and technical guidance:
  • Serve as technical resource person for Atlas Project/Budget Module and focal point for UNW regular budget;
  • Provide advice to UN Women staff on budget issues, processes and procedures;
  • Collaborate with UN Women on Atlas helpdesk and departments.
• Contribute technically to Knowledge management and capacity building:
  • Design and/or introduce, learning tools, best practices and innovations in budget business operational practices and management including drafting guidelines and policies;
  • Capture, synthesize and/or codify lessons learned and best practices in financial management and services. Disseminate to clients and stakeholders as appropriate to build capacity and knowledge;
  • Provide any other support as requested by supervisor.

Deliverables:

• Reconciliation of reserves between GL and KK
• Reconciliation of approved Regular Resource allocations with ATLAS
• Coordinate and prepare information for UNBoA queries;
• Oversight, monitoring, reporting of budget and expenditure information
• Effective and efficient support to formulation of the Integrated Budget
• Support to the revision of the Cost Recovery Policy and guidance

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Required Skills and Experience

Required Qualifications, Experience and skills:

• Master’s degree in Financial Management, Economics, Business, Public Administration, or other related area. A first-level university degree in combination with 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in financial planning, budget management and operations,
• At least 3 years in a large international and/or corporate organization preferably in the UN system and its organizations;

Language:

Fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.

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