Finance Officer, CST I, Maputo

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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of extreme weather shocks.

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WHY JOIN WFP? 

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

The National Finance Officer (NOA) has availed of parental leave. The assignment is to provide maternity cover during this period to support the stewardship of WFP’s resources, monitoring budgets, forecasting, reporting on key data and providing basic administrative and human resource functions that enable effective management of funds, and ensure assistance to beneficiaries is undertaken in the most efficient and effective way possible.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Lead the finance team, establishing priorities and work plans, monitoring progress, and providing coaching, training and guidance to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.

2. Support the implementation of the Country office finance, budgeting and resource management operations to support the timely and effective supply of food assistance and comply with WFP standards and processes.

3. Report on key data for financial status and outcomes of projects in accordance with corporate governance requirements, ensuring accuracy, deadlines, and accounting processes are complied with.

4. Perform bank reconciliations, disbursements, clearance of receivables, overall cash management and monthly financial closures on a regular basis in accordance with corporate requirements.

5. Collate data and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting, providing management with financial, staffing and resource usage information to enable them to make informed decisions.

6. Contribute to the delivery of financial controls and insight into WFP performance, supporting periodic risk and internal control assessments to identify areas which may present potential audit, compliance or financial risks.

7. Represent unit/CO at internal meetings, external meetings and events with other UN agencies, banks and other financial institutions, or other partners and entities as required.

8. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.

9. Advise and inform Country Office and Sub-Office management and Heads of Units about rules, priorities and risks related to finance management.

10. Assist sub-offices through clarifying and improving the proper application of policies and procedures and oversee preparation of reports on findings with improvement action plans.

11. Provide financial assessment of partners, service providers, and other entities as needed, providing advice/recommendations to management to enable them to make informed decisions and minimize financial risk to the organization.

12. Prepare pre audit/oversight documents for external and internal auditors when any of such audit/support is to be carried out in a timely manner.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Monthly closures successfully completed including monthly financial reporting
• Monthly follow up on tax exemption tracker and updates
• Updated Receivables & Payables Management
• Operationalizing new CSP for Management of Support Costs.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education: Advanced University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields, or First University degree in the same subject(s) Membership in an International Financial body such as CIPFA and ACCA is an added advantage.

Experience: 3 to 5 years of related work experience.

Knowledge & Skills:

Has knowledge and experience in performance budgeting and reporting analysis, and knowledge of financial and accounting principles, applicable procedures and accounting standards.

Languages:

Fluency in both oral and written communication in both English and Portuguese.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

Type of contract: CST Level I

Duty Station: Maputo (Remote Working)

Duration: 6 months

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