Budget & Financial Analyst Consultant
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Job Title: Budget & Financial Analyst Consultant
Type of Contract: Consultancy
Division: Emergency Operations Division
Duty Station (City, Country): Rome HQ, Italy
Duration: 11 months
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) Emergency Operations Division (EME) keeps WFP’s Regional Bureaus, Country Offices and partners prepared to respond to any humanitarian emergency across the globe. The Division supports emergency field operations by coordinating and ensuring adequate resources, capacities and alliances in place to alert, prepare and respond to current and future emergencies. With unprecedented crises escalating, efficient and timely emergency interventions are increasingly crucial.
This requires an effective, efficient, and agile management of resources through a holistic, comprehensive, and proactive approach and a sound and efficient budget and financial management, from planning to monitoring and reporting.
Under the direct supervision of the Finance Officer based in EME’s Front Office (EME/FO), the Budgeting & Financial Analyst will support the effective and efficient management of resources through a holistic, comprehensive, and proactive approach. The Budgeting & Financial Analyst ensures budget efficiency and financial management, from planning to monitoring and reporting through the definition of business models with clear and shared funding rationale, involving key stakeholders inside and outside EME (CPP and FIN).
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques and ensure the maximum value for money is achieved;
- Track and determine financial status by analysing actual results in comparison with forecasts, to improve the efficiency of the use of resources available;
- Improve the tools for the costing of the Division workplan; prepare the costing to allocate the resources to the Branches and monitor the funds consumption;
- Prepare regular reports on financial status, including burn rates and addressable spend; update the dashboards on a monthly basis, to provide accurate information;
- Monitor and analyze budgets for new and ongoing projects according to the established corporate procedures and requirements;
- Perform the financial review of EME’s Special Account ensuring deployments of Rapid Response Team are recovered regularly and as per agreed SOP;
- Propose actions to improve financial performance, and monitor the implementation;
- Perform business studies on past, future, and comparative performance and develop forecast models, to assist strategic decision-making.
- Contribute to the delivery of financial controls and insight into WFP performance, supporting periodic risk and internal control assessments to identify areas which may present potential audit, compliance or financial risks
- Perform other duties, as required.
DELIVERABLES:
- Financial status reports, including the analysis of spending trends, on monthly basis, and communicated to the Management;
- Recovery of staff deployments from EME’s special account, monitoring (planned expenditures vs actual) and update of relevant dashboards
- Regular communication with all the stakeholders, inside and outside of the Division(s);
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
University degree in one of the following fields: Finance, Accounting, Budgeting, Economics, Mathematics, Business Administration, Science, or another related field.
Experience:
At least 3 years of relevant working experience with/in: funds management, budgeting, account reconciliation, cash management, financial management / financial analysis / financial reporting.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Ability to review and evaluate budgets, review and assess internal controls, financial processes and procedures and provide recommendations for improvement
- Ability to review and analyze financial statements and audit reports
- Extensive knowledge of Excel
- High communications and inter-personal skills
- Advanced knowledge of SAP
- Ability to proactively networking & establishing effective working relationships
- Ability to teamwork but also work autonomously
- Flexibility and ability to work under pressure.
Languages:
Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is desirable.
Terms and Conditions
WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.
Please visit the following websites for detailed information on working with WFP.
http://www.wfp.org Click on: “Our work” and “Countries” to learn more about WFP’s operations.
Deadline for applications: 7 September 2023
Ref.: VA No. 829158
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
