Job no: 593569
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Amman
Location: Jordan
Categories: Financial Management
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
For every child, the right to Opportunity
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a leader in the region for the rights of its children. Working closely with the Government of Jordan, civil society, the private sector, and communities, UNICEF Jordan Country Office aims to sustain results achieved for children to date, and strive to further improve policies, national institutions and programmes, for the well-being of every child in Jordan, in line with Jordan's Vision 2025 and the National Human Resources Development Strategy (2016-2025) towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Our programmes focus on improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the Kingdom, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion, or background. Our main pillars include Child Protection; Education; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Adolescent and Youth Engagement, Health and Nutrition; Social Protection; and Operations.
How can you make a difference?
Under supervision of the NOB Accounting and Finance Officer you perform specialized tasks in the accounting and finance functions.
Summary Of Key Functions/accountabilities
- Receive invoices from programme and other sections, verify accuracy, correctness including coding and completeness of documents and including checking the availability of adequate funding as appropriate.
- Work as focal point to the Global Shared Service Center (GSSC) in Budapest for submitting all country office invoices, payment requests and general accounting cases.
- Follow up banking issues and request replenishments for the JCO & MENARO bank accounts and resolve reconciling items resulted from the monthly bank reconciliations for bank accounts maintained by JCO & MENARO.
- Checking all Direct Cash transfer (DCT) requests, liquidations and reclassifications, Participate in HACT assurance activities by conducting spot checks for Implementing Partners (IP).
- Perform the monthly payroll activities from identifying funding shortages to confirming accuracy of the payment of the month with the coordination with HR and budget teams.
- Analyze open items in General Ledger account balances as part of the monthly closure activities.
- Submit all Fixed Assets disposal transactions to GSSC in compliance with the current SOPs.
- Submit the monthly bank reconciliation needed sheets for GSSC and ensure completion of the bank reconciliation report.
- Review requests for change of funding source and other adjustments and submit requests for change of funding source and other adjustments to GSSC.
- Assists higher level officers in all aspects of accounts maintenance and providing reports on financial status, procedures, costs and expenditures, and potential funding problems.
- Support the HACT assurance activities (spot checks) to implementing partners.
- Monitor the petty cash account and perform the transaction and complete the monthly reconciliation and cash count
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum Requirements
- Education: Completion of secondary education is required. A bachelor’s degree from a recognized academic institution in finance, accounting, economics and business administration or any field relevant to the position may replace three years of related work experience. A master’s degree may replace an additional two years.
- Work Experience: 6 years of relevant work experience in accounting and finance is required.
- Skills required include financial reporting, invoice processing, bank reconciliation, and Excel.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
Desirables
- Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it.
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
- Drive to achieve results for impact
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
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