Finance Associate at UNOPS, Belgrade, Serbia

Deadline: 6 August 2020

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Finance Associate in Belgrade, Serbia.

UNOPS mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure, and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.

Key Job Responsibilities

The Finance Associate will perform the following functions:

• Administration of budgets and cost-recovery system
  • Ensure administration of budgets and functioning of the optimal cost-recovery system focusing on achievement of the following results:
    • Participate in information-gathering for budget preparation.
    • Extraction of required financial information from UNOPS project agreements and set up of necessary accounts in line with existing UNOPS financial policies and procedures.
    • Set up of approved budgets in ERP system .
    • Monitor, review and adjustment of Projects’ expenditures/obligations against approved budgets
      Preparation of Projects’ cost sharing portions within the office’s resource mobilization efforts.
• Payments and Accounting
  • Accounting, Payments functions focusing on achievement of the following results:
    • Proper control of the supporting documents for payments and financial reports for projects, preparation of all types of vouchers; Pay Cycle and payments execution.
    • Maintenance of the internal expenditures control system which ensures that vouchers processed are matched and completed, timely corrective actions on unposted voucher taken, including those with budget check errors, match exceptions and unapproved vouchers; transactions are correctly recorded and posted.
    • Timely accounts closure.
    • Timely response to HQ requests to resolve financial data issues.
    • Maintenance of the Accounts Receivables for projects and follow-up with partners on contributions, deposits creation in ERP system and their application to pending items.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have:

• Secondary education is required.
• University Degree (preferably in finance, accounting, business administration or related area) is an asset.
• Relevant certification in financial management or accounting a distinct advantage.
• Minimum 6 year’s of relevant working experience within the areas of financial management and/or accounting is required.
• BA Degree may substitute for some years of experience.
• Knowledge of ERP software system.
• Knowledge of G-Suite and MS Office and financial management using electronic systems is an asset.
• Experience with international organisations is an asset.
• Fluency in Serbian and English is required.
• Nationality of Serbia.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, visit UNOPS.