Batch Recruitment: (3) Finance Assistant

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Job no: 596344

Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment

Duty Station: Rome

Level: G-5

Location: Italy

Categories: Financial Management

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

For every child, the right to Deliver How can you make a difference? As Finance Assistant, you will help ensure accurate, timely and compliant financial operations across PFP by supporting transaction processing, reconciliations, revenue and contribution management, cash forecasting and fund monitoring.

Working with colleagues and stakeholders, you will help maintain reliable financial information and ensure resources are accurately recorded, monitored and available to support programme implementation and donor reporting.

- Transaction processing, reconciliation and financial records
- Revenue, receivables, remittances, and cash forecast support
- Contribution, grant and fund monitoring support
- Operational finance and administrative support
- Systems, data quality and process support

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

- Education: Completion of Secondary Education is required. Professional and/ or university courses related to the field of work are highly desirable.

- Work Experience
- At least 5 years of practical work experience in finance, accounting, financial administration,



contribution management, grant management/ administration, donor revenue management, accounts receivable, financial monitoring or related financial operations is required.
- Practical experience in processing, verifying and reconciling financial transactions, including contributions, receivables, remittances and related supporting documentation is required.
- Experience supporting month-end and year-end closure activities, including preparation of financial reports and follow-up on outstanding items is required.
- Experience coordinating with multiple stakeholders and following up actions to ensure timely resolution of financial issues is required.
- Experience in identifying and following up on discrepancies through review of financial data and system records is required.
- Skills: Financial Reconciliation, Financial Reporting, Stakeholder Coordination, Discrepancy Resolution.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables

- Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language, is an asset.
- Experience working with ERP or grant/ contribution management systems, preferably SAP/VISION, FRM, CORE/ Salesforce or similar systems, is an asset.
- Experience in donor/ private sector funding flows, is an asset.
- Experience in international organizations, is an asset.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

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. The UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are…

- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
- Drive to achieve results for impact
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others

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