Finance Specialist

The Finance Specialist will provide financial services to FAO Decentralized Offices, acting as a point of contact for invoice booking and payments, performing routine financial administration support, and participating in continuous improvement efforts for financial process automation.

Responsibilities

• Act as a point of contact for CSF and Decentralized Offices for matters related to invoice booking and payments.
• Perform routine financial administration support and transaction processing tasks including calculating, inputting and checking information for correctness and communicating discrepancies to supervisor(s).
• Monitor the workload and track the progress of tasks assigned to the Finance Team, and report the updates to supervisor.
• Verify accuracy of data including researching and reporting any irregularities, discrepancies or processing issues to supervisor(s).
• Assist with reviewing transactions, investigating errors and taking corrective accounting actions.
• Extract details of transactions from the accounting system to support the analysis and verification of accuracy and validity.
• Participate to continuous improvement efforts by acting as focal person for the Continuous Improvement Team for the analysis, testing and implementation of new financial process automations.
• Ensure smooth processing of invoices, payments, returns and payment rejections.
• Support senior colleagues in liaising with FAO’s corporate banks in case of payment issues.
• Draft and prepare correspondence to respond to queries.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures in the area of work.
• Provide procedural guidance to managers and staff; provide communication and advice to other finance support personnel, as needed.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Secondary School Education
• Four years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, cash management and/or asset management related support work.
• Working knowledge (level C) of English
• National of Hungary or resident of the country with valid work permit.
• Knowledge of financial rules and regulations, accounting policies and practices.
• Knowledge of the processing and approval process of a variety of transactions.
• Familiarity with ERP corporate financial systems.
• Knowledge of communication and documentation standards.
• Knowledge of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) would be an asset.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications and Oracle ERP application or similar ERP system.

Skills

• Finance
• Accounting
• Cash management
• Asset Management
• Financial Rules and Regulations
• Accounting Policies Development
• Transaction Processing
• ERP Financial Accounting
• Financial Documentation
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Oracle ERP
• Financial Process Management

Languages

English