Finance Associate

The Finance Associate provides technical support across a broad range of finance functions, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant execution of financial transactions and services in accordance with UNICEF financial policies and procedures. The role supports financial transaction processing, reconciliations, treasury activities, monitoring, reporting and quality assurance while promoting standardized business processes and continuous process improvements across multiple duty stations in the Caribbean Multi-Country Office.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support across a broad range of finance functions ensuring accurate, timely and compliant execution of financial transactions and services.
• Support financial transaction processing, reconciliations, treasury activities, monitoring, reporting and quality assurance.
• Exercise sound judgment in the resolution of complex or non-routine financial matters.
• Contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of the sub-regional finance function by promoting consistent application of standardized business processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery and operational efficiency.
• Support the implementation of continuous process improvements.
• Collaborate closely with programme and operations colleagues across multiple duty stations to ensure responsible management of financial resources and appropriate risk mitigation.
• Support finance services to effectively support programme implementation and achievement of results for children.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary education is required.
• Professional and/or university courses related to the field of work are highly desirable.
• Minimum six years of clerical experience in the area of finance and accounting is required.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or local language is desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts is desirable.
• Applicants for positions in the General Service must be legally authorized to work in the duty station where the MCO position is located.
• Candidates must hold and upload a valid CARICOM Skills Certificate when applying to positions located in a CARICOM Member State outside of their country of nationality, and are accountable for taking the respective steps for the verification of the certificate in the Duty Station immediately upon arrival to the new Duty Station, if selected for the position, in accordance with applicable immigration and employment requirements of the respective Country.

Skills

• Financial Transaction Processing
• Financial Reconciliation
• Treasury Activities
• Financial Monitoring
• Financial Reporting
• Quality Assurance
• UNICEF Financial Rules
• Process Improvement
• Clerical Finance Experience
• Finance and Accounting
• CARICOM Skills Certification

Languages

English