Programme Finance and Reporting Analyst

Under the general guidance of the Senior Programme Management Officer and direct supervision of the Administrative Officer, the consultant contributes to effective budget formulation, implementation, monitoring, project administration, and risk management. The role involves accurate preparation of financial reports and ensuring adherence to policies and procedures within UNEP's Climate Change Division.

Responsibilities

• Monitor budgetary commitments, including verification of charges and obligation documents in UMOJA for all financial transactions and evaluate trends of financial implementation making necessary recommendations to Task Manager.
• Review, appraise and revise all submissions for substantive programmes projects ensuring compliance with guidelines and programme/project objectives; identify problems/issues, seek clarification from departments, assess replies, and prepare a summary for the manager with suggestions for further action.
• Establish proper monitoring systems through scheduled reporting, review meetings and missions.
• Independently provide a full range of programme/project management and implementation information covering all phases of the programme/project cycle for the project initiatives, seeking guidance only in exceptional circumstances.
• Research, compile, analyse, summarize, and present basic information/data on the portfolio of projects highlighting noteworthy issues/trends for consideration by Management.
• Track resolutions and other legislative decisions that affect programme/project content and oversee the preparation of relevant databases to ensure incorporation of programmatic and other changes enacted by legislation.
• Prepare monitoring checklists, identifying stages of programme/project development, funding source, inputs by reviewing internal and external bodies, and follow-up actions required.
• Maintain and establish specific information products for the unit and assist management in providing information products to others.
• Maintain data governance and accuracy.
• Maintain data management tools in the unit.
• Supervise, guide and train other general service staff in the function.
• Assist with the collection and analysis of data as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning and decision making.
• Assist with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures.
• Provide financial information for oversight queries from Corporate Services Division, UNON, donors and other oversight authorities.
• Provide technical advisory inputs on WBSE creation and Umoja-IPMR alignment with financial dashboards and reports.
• Review GEF Co-management reports and escalate identified variances.
• Participate in GFMTS data working groups and process improvement working groups.
• Conduct review for clearance of annual audit reports for GFMTS portfolios.
• Conduct review for clearance of annual project inventory reports for GFMTS portfolios.
• Incorporate GFMTS Annual Projections of Fee Incomes, Section expenditures and Project expenditures into the Finance Dashboard (from August 2026 to February 2027).
• Lead on Project closures for MSP FSP Portfolios and provide support for the EA portfolio.
• Support the design, development and maintenance of the task pooling system.
• Perform any other duty as may be assigned.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in Administration, Accounts, finance or related field is required.
• A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) or Equivalent is required.
• Certification in Microsoft Data Analysis is required.
• Certification in Advanced Financial modelling is required.
• Minimum five years of experience in Project Administration, Finance and Budgeting is required.
• Experience in information management, database systems and use of power BI is required.
• Experience working with Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) such as Systems Applications and Products (SAP) specifically on Grantor and Fund Management Modules and Business Intelligence (BI) reporting is required.
• Experience in budget planning, analysis and monitoring is required.
• Experience working with GEF projects is required.
• A minimum of one (1) year or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
• Fluency (both oral and written) in English is required.

Skills

• Certified Public Accountant
• Chartered Accountant
• Microsoft Data Analysis
• Advanced Financial Modelling
• Project Administration
• Finance and Budget
• Information Management
• Database Systems
• Power BI
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• SAP
• Grantor and Fund Management
• Business Intelligence Reporting
• Budgeting
• Budget Analysis
• Budget Monitoring
• GEF Project Development
• Data Analytics

Languages

English