Budget Associate, (G-6), TA, #137061, (364 days), East Jerusalem, State of Palestine
Organizational Context
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. The organization is committed, passionate, and proud of its work, promoting the rights of every child as a calling. UNICEF offers diverse opportunities for professional and personal development, fostering a sense of purpose while serving children and communities globally.
Job Purpose
The Budget Associate (G-6) plays a crucial role in supporting UNICEF's mission by ensuring effective financial management and budget oversight. This position is responsible for monitoring budget allocations, commitments, and expenditures, ensuring compliance with UNICEF financial policies, donor requirements, and approved budgets. The role involves preparing and analyzing financial reports, dashboards, and budget utilization updates to highlight risks and recommend corrective actions. Additionally, the Budget Associate supports budget planning, forecasting, and revisions, ensuring adequate funding from appropriate sources in line with donor conditions and programme priorities. This position is vital for maintaining accurate financial information, supporting informed decision-making, and contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of UNICEF's operations in the State of Palestine.
Responsibilities
The Budget Associate will monitor budget allocations, commitments, and expenditures, ensuring compliance with UNICEF financial policies, donor requirements, and approved budgets. They will prepare and analyze financial dashboards, management reports, and budget utilization updates, highlighting key risks, variances, and recommending corrective actions. The role involves supporting budget planning, forecasting, revisions, and cross-sectoral budget allocations, ensuring adequate funding from appropriate sources in line with donor conditions and programme priorities. Maintaining budget monitoring tools, financial records, and control mechanisms, including grant tracking and operational/financial closure in VISION, is essential. The associate will monitor grant implementation, commitments, and expenditures to ensure accurate financial information and timely identification of discrepancies. They will provide financial analysis and budget oversight to programme sections and management, monitoring DCT status, utilization rates, and other key financial indicators. Support will be provided for the preparation and review of financial reports to donors, ensuring alignment with VISION reports and adherence to donor templates. The role also includes supporting the preparation of budgets in donor funding proposals and assisting with annual payroll planning by maintaining salary trackers and analyzing funding availability. Liaising with GSSC Payroll, Human Resources, and programme sections to resolve payroll-related issues is also part of the responsibilities. Finally, the Budget Associate will support capacity-building initiatives and perform other assigned budget and financial management duties.
Work Experience
A minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in finance, budget management, or a related field is required. Experience with financial systems like VISION is highly desirable.
Skills
Budget Monitoring, Financial Reporting, Financial Analysis, Budget Planning, Forecasting, Donor Reporting, Grant Management, Financial Compliance, Data Analysis, UNICEF Financial Policies, VISION System, Microsoft Office Suite