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Food and Agriculture Organization National Finance and Administrative Specialist Guyana FAO Jobs 2024
Food and Agriculture Organization looking for “National Finance and Administrative Specialist”. Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree may apply on or before 17-Jul-24.
The Food and Agriculture Organization has published a job vacancy announcement on 03/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of National Finance and Administrative Specialist to be based in Georgetown , Guyana. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org
Company Name: Food and Agriculture Organization
Job Title: National Finance and Administrative Specialist
Duty Station: Georgetown , Guyana
Country: Guyana
Application Deadline: 17-Jul-24
The incumbent will undertake the following tasks:
• Follow-up on timely disbursements by FAO to the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) account.
• Assist in the preparation of payments requests for operational expenses, salaries, insurance, etc., against project budgets and work plans.
• Support the preparation of project work-plans and operational and financial planning processes.
• Monitor project activities, budget and financial expenditures and maintain a proper record of approved project budgets and their revisions.
• Prepare proposals for budget revisions.
• Undertake procurement for the project ensuring timelines are maintained to realize project activities.
• Prepare and submit expenditure and programme budget status reports.
• Prepare recurring reports as scheduled and special reports as required for budget preparations and audit.
• Advise and assist international and national consultants on all aspects of allowances, travel claims and other financial matters, and calculate payments due for claims and services.
• Undertake other financial and administrative tasks on an ad hoc basis.
• Ensure that adequate financial controls are in place to maintain propriety and proper accountability of expenditures.
• Ensure the financial transactions are properly authorized, recorded, have adequate supporting documentation, filed, maintained, and can be easily extracted for the purpose of preparing financial statements, and financial audits.
• Monitor budgets and expenditures and contribute to preparation of budget revisions.
• Liaise with FAO and GLSC to ensure compatibility of the project financial books with financial reports on the project.
• Prepare and submit timely and reliable financial documents and financial reports and statements.
• Prepare financial reports and statements on a monthly basis.
• Prepare projections based on contracts existing and future.
• Establish a computer-based monitoring system for expenditures and formulate strategic and long-term business plans.
• Ensure that all procurement process and expenditures of the project are done in accordance with the UNDP procedures.
• Analyze change and advise accordingly.
• Liaise with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out.
• Be responsible for any financial tasks related to organization of conferences, workshops, retreats, and other events of the project.
• Participate in capacity development/training activities when assigned.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, ACCA/Accounting, Economics or any other field related to the work of the Organization.
• At least two years of relevant experience in the public and/or private sectors, related to project planning, administration, finance, and budgeting.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Working knowledge of English is required.
• National of Guyana.
FAO Core Competencies
• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement