Finance Assistant Jobs at UN Regional Service Centre Entebbe

Job Title: Finance Assistant
Employer: United Nations Regional Service Centre Entebbe (RSCE)
Location: Entebbe, Uganda

Duties
• Perform the monthly and yearly closing procedures in Umoja ERP
• Keenly analyze complex/unusual accounting transactions and difficult claims for travel, invoices and entitlement matters, etc. and make recommendations to the Team Leader or Service Line Manager on appropriate follow-up procedures.
• Keenly review and reconcile all open-item-managed (OIM) accounts and investigate erroneous/invalid entries to take appropriate corrective accounting action.
• Review various vouchers and accounting transactions, e.g., payroll, payment of staff entitlements, final payments, travel claims, vendor invoices, agencies, field missions, etc., to ensure conformity adherence to relevant staff rules, financial regulations and rules, ST/AI issuances or practices.
• Issue of invoice to agencies through Service Delivery Module, and gnertate periodic report to review the agencies/missions balances.
• Verify that the necessary goods and services have been received in accordance with the contract, agreement, purchase order or other form of undertaking by which they were ordered and that they have been certified by a duly designated certifying officer before vouchers are submitted to approving officers for further review and approval.
• Review and prepare payments to staff and vendors for goods and services, including checking payments for accuracy and correcting any discrepancies.


Education:
• The ideal candidate for the United Nations Regional Service Centre at Entebbe (RSCE) Finance Assistant job opportunity should hold a high school diploma or equivalent. Technical or vocational certificate in accounting, finance, budget or related fields is required.

Experience:
• A minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience within the United Nations system or in the private sector at the national or international level in accounting, budgeting or financial management is required.
• Previous experience in a service centre is desirable.
• Prior experience in a UN Peacekeeping Mission is desirable.
• Languages: Fluency in English (both oral and written) is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.


How to Apply
All suitably qualified and interested candidates desiring to serve the United Nations Regional Service Centre at Entebbe (RSCE) in the aforementioned capacity should express their interest by visiting the UN recruitment website and clicking Apply Now.
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Deadline 22nd May 2017