Fields of Purity - Senior Finance & Budget Officer

Within delegated authority, the Senior Finance and Budget Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

Budget preparation:

- Plans and co-ordinates review of budget submissions.

- Reviews, analyses and finalizes cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements for the Department at Headquarters and in the field, including programmatic aspects.

- Co-ordinates the preparation of budget submissions from managers.

- Reviews submission of budget and programme plan.

- Provides substantive support to the Head of the Department during negotiations with the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) and the Committee.

Budget administration:

- Determines suitability and recommends redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures for globally, including coordination with the field implementation partners.

- Liaises with globally field offices globally on resource issues.

- Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures.

- Oversees budget performance; monitors variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures.

General:

- Manages the day-to-day programme of activities of the Budget and Finance team to ensure effective and timely delivery of the work programme, plans and discusses individual work programmes with staff, and evaluates their performance.

- Oversees logistical support to field offices globally.

- Provides advice and guidance, including training, to Headquarters and field staff on budgetary and financial policies and procedures, including results-based budgeting.

- Participates in inter-departmental meetings and/or technical survey missions on matters related to resource requirements, programming and budgetary issues.

- Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to programme and/or project budgets, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with organization policies and procedures.

- Prepares/finalizes reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on budgetary issues, and correspondence, including guidelines, instructions.

- Acts as Certifying Officer under Financial Rule to ensure that proposed obligations and expenditures are in accordance with budgets and established regulations and rules.

- Ensures the integrity of financial and management systems and the internal controls that underpin them.

- Provides support to the Head of Department in meetings of legislative organs, inter- and intra-departmental meetings

- Acts as deputy to the Executive Officer and performs other related duties, as assigned.

- Performs other related duties, as assigned.