Associate Performance and Budget Analyst

The Associate Performance and Budget Analyst supports senior colleagues in the Program Performance and Budget Service by preparing, compiling, and analyzing financial and programmatic data to facilitate planning, monitoring, and reporting cycles. The role involves budget monitoring, administrative processing within ERP systems, performance data reporting, and contributing to system transformation and process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, compile, and analyze financial and programmatic data to support planning, monitoring, and reporting cycles, including the preparation of Program of Work and Budget and WIPO Performance Reports.
• Support Sectors in the preparation of biennial and annual planning, implementation and monitoring, and performance assessments.
• Conduct Analysis of financial resource requests against workplans and organizational results, proposing service-oriented solutions.
• Prepare, on request, analysis on budget implementation and utilization, identifying issues and proposing solutions to improve organizational service delivery, resolving queries and escalating complex issues to the Senior Business Analyst if needed.
• Process administrative actions, budget journals, review recruitment and contract extension requests, including verification of related financial resources, within ERP systems (including AIMS and WePerform).
• Extract, transform, validate, and reconcile data from ERP systems for quarterly and annual monitoring reports, ensuring completeness and data integrity.
• Serve as backup to the Associate ERP Business Administrator for routine PPBS operational tasks.
• Compile, review, and validate Sector performance data for designated areas of responsibility and prepare assigned quarterly and annual monitoring reports, ensuring timely delivery to support informed decision-making.
• Contribute to workflow reviews to streamline operational processes and reporting, leveraging AI and automation to improve accuracy and efficiency where feasible.
• Participate in user acceptance testing of enhancements and changes to WePerform and other systems as part of the ERP transformation project.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• First-level university degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related discipline.
• At least three years of professional work experience including in result-based management, finance, or budgeting.
• Proven experience of working with an ERP system.
• Excellent (written and spoken) knowledge of English.
• Knowledge of Results-Based Management and related budgetary practices.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to collect, validate, analyze, and present programmatic, budgetary and performance information clearly and accurately, in line with administrative, financial, and budgetary policies and procedures and in support of the Organization's results.
• Strong investigative mindset and critical thinking skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and strong attention to detail.
• Organizational skills with the ability to work efficiently, systematically and accurately under pressure and to meet deadlines and a high degree of flexibility, responsibility, and independence.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multi-cultural environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
• Commitment to continuous learning and the adoption of emerging technologies Including AI.

Skills

• Result-Based Management
• Budgeting
• Financial Analysis
• ERP Systems
• MS Excel
• Data Validation
• Programmatic Data Analysis
• Budget Monitoring
• Performance Reporting
• Administrative Processing
• Process Improvement
• Analytical Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Organizational Skills
• AI Technology Adoption

Languages

English