UN World Food Programme Finance Officer Jobs in Uganda

UN World Food Programme Finance Officer Jobs in Uganda

About WFP

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters.

After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year.

Brief description of WFP in Uganda

WFP delivers food assistance in emergencies and work with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

WFP provides life-saving food assistance and livelihood opportunities to refugees in Uganda. In addition, WFP assists the most vulnerable people in Uganda with food and nutrition assistance. Finally, WFP works with smallholder farmers and links them to markets.

As Uganda strives to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and become a middle-income country by 2040, WFP is also assessing its relevance and repositioning its role in Uganda.

Are You Up to the Challenge?

We are seeking qualified individuals for the position of Finance Officer NOB to be based in Kampala. The selected candidate will be employed on Fixed Term

Organizational Context

These jobs are found in Country Offices (COs), Regional Bureaux (RBs), and Headquarters (HQ). Job holders typically report to a more senior Finance Officer.

They operate as part of a finance team in a CO or RB, providing general financial support. In HQ, the job holders operate within a narrower finance specialism. Depending on the size and needs of the office or unit, the job may cover all aspects of finance, budget, and administration, or it may emphasize finance or more of these aspects.

Job holders at this level operate with minimal supervision, and provide guidance to junior staff to ensure that operation and project objectives are achieved.

They are heavily involved in day-to-day activities and analytical work, and provide advice on less complex issues, applying rules and regulations and expertise in making determinations and recommendations across a range of activities.

Job Purpose

The Finance Officer NOB is in charge of overseeing financial reporting, financial management at the WFP Uganda Country Office, supporting the continuous review and enhancement of internal controls and leading/coordinating the finance unit staff.

The Finance Unit is preparing a roster for pre-vetted applicants for the Finance Officer role to ease the succession planning and business continuity in the unit.

To provide financial reporting and management services to the WFP Uganda Country Office, support the continuous review and enhancement of internal controls and lead/coordinate the finance unit staff.

Key Accountabilities(not all-inclusive)

Support the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures, Guidelines and Policies to enhance financial management, reporting and internal controls. Review existing WFP policies and procedures on the major aspects of the financial operations to identify areas where additional guidelines are required to support effectiveness and efficiency of operations, liaising with other Units or offices on the requirement/applicability of new guidelines.

Lead and coordinate the effective functionality of the Country Office Finance Unit team. Lead the task allocations, staff appraisals, coaching and mentoring, identifying additional staffing needs and supporting the recruitment process for new staff and holding regular coordination meetings for finance unit staff.

Prepare routine and

adhoc financial reports and analysis to both internal and external stakeholders to support decision making and to comply with donor, partner or other stakeholder requirements. Review the financial analysis work of other finance staff before presentation to the varied stakeholders and the presentation of these analyses to the varied stakeholders in the appropriate formats.

Oversee allocation of expenditure to the programmatic budgets. Provision of expenditure allocation codes to the various spending units in line with the budgets and workplans, review and release commitment documents entered into WINGS to ensure compliance with the approved expenditure allocation, budget and workplans.

Fund management of the Direct Support Costs (DSC) budget and monitoring of the expenditure on the other programmatic activity budgets. Review of the DSC budget line-item expenditure versus the implementation plan or budget, Monitoring Locally generated fund and tracking any inter-activity transfers of funds (borrowing).

Periodically review the staff cost allocations to the programmatic activity budgets to ensure that the staff costs are adequately covered for at least six months to one year ahead and the cost allocations reflect the staff work assignments. Liaison with activity managers and heads of area and field offices to ensure that the staff costs are accurately charged to the programmatic activities. This should also include review of staff cost allocations to grant relevant (restricted funding) to ensure it complies to the donor agreements.

Support the continuous review and enhancement of internal controls. Follow up on the implementation of internal and external audit recommendations, follow up and correspondence with Regional Bureau on periodic Financial Risks Analysis, planning for and carry out field offices oversight visits to ensure financial controls and processes are effective and efficient and ensuring that the delegation of authority and committee matrixes are up to date.


Standard Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields, or first University degree in the same subject(s) with additional years of related work experience.

• Professional accounting credentials from an internationally recognized professional accountancy body such as Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPA) or its equivalent.

• At least five (5) years relevant professional experience in performing, reviewing and analysing complex financial analysis, statements and reports at a national and/or field operational level. • Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems such as SAP.

• Strong background in the review and enhancement of internal controls including the preparation of policy and procedure guidelines.

• Strong functional knowledge of the complete Microsoft Office suite, proficient in MS Excel. Ability to analyze, interpret and summarize large volumes of data and the capacity to identify process improvements and drive change.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across one or more dispersed and diverse teams is desirable.

• Proven professional commitment to professionalism, punctuality, accuracy, confidentiality, integrity and flexibility, as well as demonstrated experience in introducing new and more effective ways of working.

Languages:

luency in English (both oral and written) is required.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN World Food Programme Finance Officer Jobs in Uganda


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