The UNDP  National Finance Officer, under HFU’s guidance, supports DRHC decisions, allocates funds, and ensures adherence to guidelines and manuals.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the Finance Team Leader (FTL) of HFU and under his day-to-day guidance the Humanitarian Financing officer is expected to perform the following tasks:

 Administration and implementation of program and operational financial services:

• Assist in preparing, analyzing, and evaluating information from the financial records and provide data to FTL for review and reporting purposes, and assist to the Finance Team Leader relevant for improvements in the financial operation to ensure cost-efficient management of the fund’s resources.
• Plan, assist and oversee the collection of interim and final financial reports from the SCHF partners and review for disbursements, and collect audit reports for a quality check and report serious findings concerning audit reports to head of finance.
• Maintain an up-to-date audit tracker, with key findings, auditors’ recommendations, and desired actions taken by IPs. Ensure sharing monthly briefings and key highlights related to the audit issues with FTL.
• Prepare as when needed new batch audit task orders and coordinate with FTL, audit firms, and HQ for releasing new batches for auditing purposes.

 Support the HFU Unit in the review and administration of projects:

• Participate in standard and reserved allocations during the allocation process and assist clusters, program unit, and strategic review committee in scoring project proposals, especially the partners budgets, and coordinate with partners during the budget negotiations and finalization of grants and grant agreements.
• Input/review data in GMS for new projects and monitor status. Keep stakeholders and clients informed for timely action and decisions.
• Assist in the implementation of internal control mechanisms for projects through monitoring of partner’s budget.
• Perform other duties as required by the head of finance and HFU team.

Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing: 

• Contribute to training initiatives on financial processes by conducting partners trainings in consultation with head of the unit.
• Capture, synthesize and/or codify lessons learned and best practices in financial management and services.
• Disseminate to clients and stakeholders as appropriate to build capacity and knowledge.

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Qualification standards for UNDP National Finance Officer

Education:  

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social science, administration management, finance management or related studies

OR

• Bachelor`s degree with 2 additional years of relevant experience can be accepted in lieu of master’s degree.

Experience:

• Up to two (2) years’ (with Masters degree) or 2 years (with Bachelor degree) of relevant experience at the national level in finance management is required.
• A minimum of one (1) years’ experience in pool fund mechanism is desirable.
• Experience in reviewing project budgets/audit reports/capacity assessment, conducting financial spot checks is desirable.
• Experience working in ERP (on grant management) based portal platform is desirable.

Language requirements

• Fluency in English and Turkish (written and spoken) is required. Proficiency in Arabic is desirable.

Note: upload copies of your academic qualifications and 3 latest Performance Evaluations (if applicable)