Program Financial analyst at UN Women Nigeria in Abuja (FCT)

Role summary Profile:

• UNDP is the United Nations worldwide development network, promoting for maintainable development, welcoming growth, and adaptability building.
• With a presence in over 170 countries, UNDP aids countries to find home-grown initiatives to sophisticated development hurdles.
• The Nigeria Country Workspace is executing its 2023–2027 Country Program Record (CPD), in sync with Nigeria’s national development ambitions, Schedule 2030, Schedule 2063, and the UN Maintainable Development Teamwork Structure (UNSDCF). To handle the country’s agile hurdles, UNDP Nigeria is transitioning towards combined and project sample-based programming, leveraging creative invention, digital transformation, and development finance.
• The Program Management Help desk (PMST) and Project sample Consultative Team delivers consultative and QA solutions across the program cycle, making sure regulatory framework adherence, dispatch acceleration, combined organizing, and upgraded asset mobilization.
• In this circumstance, the position of Program Financial analyst becomes strategic to embed more resilient finance Management, cross-project sample evaluation, and financial funding intelligence into program processes. 

Role Objective:

• Under the direct oversight of the Chief of Programme Management Help desk (PMST) and with matrix status updates to the Project sample Consultant and the entire direction of the Assistant Resident Delegate (program), the Program Financial analyst ensures efficient financial monitoring and business assist for the CO’s project sample of program and projects.
• Alongside traditional finance management processes, the incumbent will support up to 20% of their time to assisting project sample management and financial funding evaluation, assisting the Country Workspace adopt a more combined and adaptive approach to program organizing, dispatch, and funding.
• This comprises supporting to outcomes-attentive financial funding organizing, asset mobilization data analysis, donor adherence, and cross-cutting project sample results tracking in line with corporate project sample direction.
• The Evaluator works in close partnership with Program, Processes, Project Teams, the Strategic collaborations & Creative invention Team, Regional Hubs, and GSSC, and serves as a asset for program finance QA, combined project sample data findings, and financing pipeline evaluation.
• UNDP adopts a project sample approach to accommodate evolving business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to attain its strategic targets.
• Therefore, UNDP staff are anticipated to operate across units, processes, teams, and projects in cross-functional teams in order to improve and enable horizontal partnership.

Core Skills:

• Accomplish Outcomes: LEVEL 2: Scale up initiatives and simplifies methods, balances speed and precision in doing work.
• Think Creatively: LEVEL 2: Proposal new creative thoughts/launch to new approaches, show systemic/combined thinking.
• Learn Constantly: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and assist their learning.
• Adjust with Quickness: LEVEL 2: Adjust methods/approaches to new conditions, engage others in adjustment process.
• Act with Decision: LEVEL 2: Capable to persevere and transaction with various suppliers of pressure at the same time.
• Engage and Work collaboratively: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build and/or /preserve coalitions/collaboration.
• Enable Diversity and Addition: LEVEL 2: Coordinate conversations to bridge differences, reviews in strategic judgment.

Business Development:

Expertise Facilitation: Capability to animate individuals and networks of team members to engage and distribute, especially externally. 

Finance:

Accounting (General): Expertise in accounting notions, principles, rules, rules and capability to submit application this to strategic and/or practical conditions. 

Finance:

Audit Risk mitigation strategy: Capability to handle audit concerns elevated in the course of an audit and propose initiatives in order to guarantee a true and fair audit opinion is accomplished.

Expertise:

• At least 2 years (with MSC) or 4 years (with Bsc) of related experience in offering finance Management solutions, and/or coordinating employees and business operational structures is essential; 
• Expertise in offering Capacity planning and Evaluation is wanted;
• QA monitoring and close supervising of executing associates initiatives is wanted;
• Expertise in the usage of computers and workspace software bundles (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and improve expertise in spreadsheet and DB bundles, expertise in managing of online-enabled management operational structures and Enterprise platform planning financials, ideally Quantum (UNDP Enterprise platform planning offered by Oracle) is preferred 
• Expertise in Project sample management and some level of Financial funding evaluation would be an asset;
• Expertise of IPSAS and/or IFRS is essential for external applicants;
• Expertise operating in the UN System is an asset. 

Necessary Language(s):

Fluency in English is essential. Expertise in another UN language is an asset

Note Fair access:

As an fair access company, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we promote certified candidates from all profile to submit application for positions in the company. Our job decisions are based on merit and appropriateness for the position, without discrimination.  UNDP is also dedicated to producing an diverse organization where all staff are empowered to support to our purpose, are valued, can thrive, and advantage from professional avenues that are launch to all.

Probation:

For all new UNDP temporary assignments (FTA), which includes for employees members being transferred or seconded to UNDP under the Inter-Company Accord regarding Move, Secondment or Loan of Employees, on an assignment of more than one year, resumption of the assignment beyond the starting 12 months is contingent upon the successful finalization of a probationary period.

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