Performance and Budget Analyst

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 137,951 USD and 180,636 USD.

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1. Organizational Context

1. Organizational Setting

The position is located in the Program Performance and Budget Division (PPBD), Department of Program Planning and Finance. The Division is responsible for facilitating the planning and budgeting, implementation and monitoring, and assessment of the performance of WIPO's programs in accordance with WIPO's Results-Based Management (RBM) framework and the Financial Regulations and Rules (FRRs)

2. Purpose Statement

The incumbent works closely with and provides support to the Senior Manager Operations/Program Performance and the Director on a range of operational budgetary and program performance-related issues, including ERP-related.

3. Reporting Lines

The incumbent works under the supervision of the Senior Manager Operations/Program Performance.

4. Work Relations

The incumbent liaises extensively with Managers, Sector Leads and colleagues throughout the Organization and with the Human Resources Management Department, the Finance Division, the Procurement Division and the Management and Administrative Applications Section to provide advice, resolve issues, and coordinate on budget and program performance-related issues.

2. Duties and Responsibilities

The incumbent will perform the following principal duties:

a. Analyze requests for the use of personnel and non-personnel resources against annual workplans and organizational results. Update and carry out administrative actions in ERP systems and follow up with concerned organizational units.

b. Provide guidance on the preparation of annual workplans, implementation and monitoring of annual workplans and performance assessments. Prepare analysis, as required, on program implementation and budget utilization, identify issues and propose solutions in order to facilitate organizational service delivery.

c. Monitor and analyze the utilization of personnel resources, including HR central costs and vacant positions and backfills, and produce periodic monitoring reports.

d. Provide guidance to Sectors on the preparation of the Program of Work and Budget. Review submissions, including costing and programmatic aspects, prepare cost analysis and prepare consolidated drafts. Contribute to the preparation of personnel costs for the biennium based on actual-based costing principles and the ongoing monitoring of personnel costs during implementation.

e. Prepare inputs to the WIPO Performance Reports, including resource utilization explanations and annexes.

f. Act as PPBD business focal point for the streamlining and/or automation of operational processes and reporting, including review and analysis of existing processes/reports, identification of opportunities for improvement/simplification. Prepare business requirements and test cases for automation/reporting initiatives and conduct user acceptance testing.

g. Perform other related tasks as required, including back-up for Senior Performance and Budget Analysts in case of absence.

3. Requirements

Education (Essential)

First-level university degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related discipline.

Experience (Essential)

At least six years of relevant professional work experience including in the area of result-based management, finance or budgeting. An advanced university degree may be accepted in lieu of two years of relevant experience.

Experience of working with an ERP system, e.g. Oracle or PeopleSoft.

Language (Essential)

Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.

Job Related Competencies (Essential)

Ability to analyze budgetary information in line with administrative, financial and budgetary policies and procedures and in relation to the results to be achieved by the Organization.

Strong analytical and numerical skills including the ability to use analytical tools and qualitative and quantitative techniques.

Competent user of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and the Internet and the ability to work with ERP, planning and financial systems, particularly PeopleSoft or Oracle.

Organizational skills with the ability to work efficiently, systematically and accurately under pressure and to meet deadlines; and

High degree of flexibility, responsibility and independence.

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multicultural environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

4. Organizational Competencies

1. Communicating effectively.
2. Showing team spirit.
3. Demonstrating integrity.
4. Valuing diversity.
5. Producing results.
6. Showing service orientation.
7. Seeing the big picture.
8. Seeking change and innovation.
9. Developing yourself and others.

5. Information

Mobility: WIPO staff members are international civil servants subject to the authority of the Director General and may be assigned to any activities, office or duty station of the Organization. Accordingly, the selected candidate may be required to move from time to time to new functions and/or to another duty station.

Annual salary****:

Total annual salary consists of a net annual salary (net of taxes and before medical insurance and pension fund deductions) in US dollars and a post adjustment. Please note that this estimate is for information only. The post adjustment multiplier (cost of living allowance) is variable and subject to change (increase or decrease) without notice. The figures quoted below are based on the November 2021 rate of 92.2%

P3

Annual salary

$62,120

Post adjustment

$57,275

Total Salary

$119,395

Currency USD

Salaries and allowances are paid in Swiss francs at the official rate of exchange of the United Nations.

Please refer to WIPO’s Staff Regulation and Rules for detailed information concerning salaries, benefits and allowances.

Additional Information

* Initial period of two years, renewable, subject to satisfactory performance. No fixed-term appointment or any extension hereof shall carry with it any expectancy of, nor imply any right to, (further) extensions or conversion to a permanent appointment.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill other posts at the same grade with similar functions in accordance with Staff Rule 4.9.5.

Applications from qualified women as well as from qualified nationals of unrepresented Member States of WIPO and underrepresented geographical regions are encouraged. Please click on the following links for the list of unrepresented Member States and the list of underrepresented regions and the WIPO Member States in these regions.

The Organization reserves the right to make an appointment at a grade lower than that advertised.

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By completing an application, candidates understand that any willful misrepresentation made on this web site, or on any other documents submitted to WIPO during the application, may result in disqualification from the recruitment process, or termination of employment with WIPO at a later date, if that employment resulted from such willful misrepresentations.

In the event that your candidature is shortlisted, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of an identification and of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WIPO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and these will be reviewed individually.

Additional testing/interviewing may be used as a form of screening. Initial appointment is subject to satisfactory professional references.

Additional background checks may be required.