Consultant Finance, CFORC

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JOB TITLE: Finance Consultant

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Regular Consultancy

UNIT/DIVISION: CFORC, CFO Division

DUTY STATION (City, Country): Rome, Italy (Remote from place of permanent residence)

DURATION: until 31.12.2026 with possibility of extension

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

CFORC is responsible for ensuring accountability to donors on the utilization of contributions and to support financial management through accounting for contributions, CSP analysis and reporting. The objectives of the Unit is to

(i) Ensure timely and accurate reporting to donors,

(ii) Improve financial management in accounting for contributions, income, and expenditures, and;

(iii) support the financial management of the CSP The Unit requires temporary support in the form of a Consultancy to augment its current capacity.

The Finance Consultant will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by the unit Chief or his delegate

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Finance Consultant will be responsible primarily for donor financial standard and/or specialized reports as follows:
• Annual Country Reports

➢ Organize and assist in the timely issuance of the ACRs.➢Validate and test the ACRs

➢ Follow up on ACRs problem data issues with other divisions and COs

➢ Respond to ad-hoc requests from donors and other WPF Offices on a timely basis

➢ Provide support to the coordination and monitoring of CSP financial closure, look for appropriate accounting adjustments and follow up corrective actions.

➢ Support in the monitoring of CSP related unspent balance and coordinate with PPR

➢ Support country office to analyze and process Advance and Final Resource Transfer as well as Balance Transfer

➢ Regularly analyze the mis-postings and irregularities in the ACR and guide the country offices regional offices and other HQ divisions for required actions

➢ Contribute to the arrangements for relevant testing of donor reporting-related tools

➢ Undertake other assignments related to CFORC work

• Specialised Financial Reporting

➢ Prepare specialized financial reports in compliance with donor’s agreements, including financial analysis

➢ Oversee contribution receivables for related grants including necessary cash postings, clearances, other accounting adjustments of receivables, and related matters

➢ If applicable, support verification missions by providing necessary information to the relevant parties.

➢ Support as necessary other staff on specialized donor reporting.
➢ Other activities associated with the production of specialized financial reporting
• Resource Transfer and Unspent balance transfer
➢ Analyze and provide guidance on grant validation in the cross-functional resourcemigration process and resource transfer of associated costs (advances or finaltransfer for closing CSPs)
➢ Support country office to analyze and process Advance and Final ResourceTransfer
➢ Coordinate with the country office and validate unspent contribution transfer tothe subsequent operations.
➢ Review and ensure resource transfers are properly reflected in WINGS andfinancial reports.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

Ensure accuracy and timely delivery in all tasks performed; Produces organized, accurate, and well-documented records conforming to the required format with well-analyzed data

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:
University degree in Accounting or Finance

Experience:
• 3 years’ experience working in the finance or resource management function, preferably in the field, in an humanitarian institution
• Experience in preparation of donor financial reports is an advantage

Knowledge & Skills:
Ability to review a variety of data, identify data discrepancies; scrutiny in the preparation of reports; good Excel and data processing skill; accounting and/or finance-related working experience.
Languages:
English

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