Finance Officer, NOB (Post # 122227), in Finance Section Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary (only for Hungarian nationals)

Contract

This is a NO-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-2 contracts.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, results.

We are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not a job, it’s a calling.

UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) provides services to UNICEF offices around the world in the areas of Finance, Master Data Management, Human Resources Administration, Payroll, and IT Customer Care.

Our mission is to be a Centre of Excellence for the global delivery of efficient services within a culture of customer service, continuous business improvement, knowledge-sharing and innovation to support the effective achievement of UNICEF's programme results worldwide. ​

GSSC has won the 2019 Business Services Firm of the Year in Hungary, 26 regional awards announced at the Central and Eastern European Business Services Summit & Awards held in Warsaw, Poland.

Please visit our UNICEF GSSC page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-QvV89AQj4

How can you make a difference?

The National Finance Officer (Invoice Processing) is responsible for leading and managing transactional teams under the direct supervision of the Stream Lead. This is a critical team lead role that directly impacts the GSSC service delivery, its staff engagement and welfare and implementation of improvement initiatives.

Transactional Streams continue with their transformation, shifting focus towards transactional compliance and quality, efficiency through automation, delivering increased productivity, suspicious transaction monitoring and creating value addition in its service delivery to the offices we serve.

This role will be responsible for building and maintaining a highly performing processing team with high levels of quality and service, a satisfied customer base and a well-motivated and engaged team.

1. People Management

• Lead and manage team to ensure achievement of their performance targets.
• Provide technical support, feedback and on the job training to team members.
• Lead and develop staff through coaching and mentoring.
• Promote management excellence and work life balance in the unit.
• Support a culture of honest and continuous feedback and performance management.

2. Service Delivery

• Lead and supervise the service delivery of the unit to meet organizational performance and productivity goals.
• Manage work programmes for suspicious transaction monitoring, detective reporting and transaction level monitoring.
• Influence and evaluate the impact of changes in policies, regulations on internal controls and advise management accordingly.
• Perform root cause analysis on significant business process bottlenecks or inefficiencies
• Ensure proactive coordination with other team leads and other streams for timely resolution of issues and concerns.
• Ensure close and positive client service relationships with the offices being supported, issues are resolved positively and proactively.

3. Projects

• Support projects to ensure GSSC process compliance to organizational policies and procedures and the achievement of efficiency initiatives.
• Provide advisory support in various projects in order enhance internal controls efficiency and productivity in business process across all finance streams, including the issuance of process instructions.

4. Innovations

• Maintain constant innovative approach to enhance productivity, sound internal controls and minimize transactional time/cost.
• Provide technical support on projects dedicated to technology integration, robotics and process automation etc.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

• A first university degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in accounting, business administration, economics, financial management or another relevant field is minimum requirement. Master’s degree in a relevant field is an asset.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant Financial transactional experience and/or other directly related technical fields is required.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a shared service center role.

• Strong knowledge of internal controls and risk management in finance process.
• Experience of working in SAP environment particularly the Finance/MDM module.
• Solid understanding of Robotics Automation Process environment.
• Experience in using data analytics and techniques.
• Experience in managing, technical support and professional development of teams.
• Fluency in English and Hungarian is required.

Desirable:

• Experience in Automated Payments and MDM Fraud prevention.
• Experience of working in Service NOW environment.
• Subject Matter Expert of Finance Procure2Pay streams.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it.

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

To view our competency framework, please visit: https://uni.cf/Competencies

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: UNICEF's Competency Framework here

As an advocate for every child, you will receive

• Access here the UN Salary Scale for Hungary.
• Holidays and leave, including 30 days of annual leaves per year
• Parental leave
• Dependency allowance
• United Nations sponsored medical insurance plan
• Pension plan
• Optional life insurance plan
• Access to professional development and learning programs, online learning and learning path
• Access to staff well-being support
• Access to career development support

Please visit Compensation and Benefit site on UNICEF Career page

Remarks: Requirement for internal applicants

Please attach the snapshot of the completed courses of Learning Path when applying to the level of this post. You may visit the L&D Portal Learning and Development (sharepoint.com) for more information.

National Officer (NO) staff are nationals of the country in which they perform functions of a technical and professional nature. Eligible applicants are nationals of Hungary.

National Officer staff are locally recruited staff and therefore, are responsible for any travel and accommodation arrangements. UNICEF does not facilitate MFA accreditation for locally recruited staff

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to A diverse and inclusive workforce to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of Compensation and benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.

All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates will be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID).

This VA is open to all (internal and external candidates).