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About the Role
This role provides strategic financial leadership within a dynamic international organization, offering exposure to diverse projects, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to drive improvements in financial management and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic financial support and budget oversight to NYPO.
- Develop Finance/Budget annual work plan, setting priorities and planning work in line with corporate goals and business planning process.
- Monitor and analyze the operating environment to ensure adequate agility, risk management, and quick readjustment of operations.
- Strengthen client and stakeholder satisfaction by ensuring NYPO's financial reporting requirements are met.
- Lead internal and external audit exercises and accountability for financial audit recommendations.
- Act as the practice specialist by contributing to corporate strategy requirements and recommendations made by the Finance Group.
- Drive finance function initiatives to ensure added value and optimal support across NYPO, and achievement of Strategic Objectives.
- Contribute specialist financial knowledge to the long-term strategy of NYPO's business efficiencies.
- Deliver cross-functional integration and process efficiency improvements.
- Bridge the gap between HQ-level policy development and execution at field level, including conducting financial training.
- Lead cross-functional integration and process efficiency improvements through linkages between program and operations with an emphasis on finance and budgeting.
- Work towards coherence in processes and policy improvements for long-term solutions to repetitive challenges.
- Benchmark internal financial practices with external best practices.
- Work closely with other management practice advisors on the utilization and enhancement of systems and tools.
- Facilitate knowledge building and sharing regarding financial management and operations.
- Enforce compliance with organizational requirements.
- Supervise the performance of monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounting processes.
- Mitigate reputational risk by ensuring integrity and accuracy of financial performance and expenditure.
- Ensure transactions are correct and escalate complex and recurring challenges.
- Drive inputs on budget design across programmes.
- Lead control and data integrity tests of systems.
- Contribute to practice-led initiatives on common operational recommendations when developing new systems.
- Drive the delivery of training to the business to raise financial capacity, awareness, and compliance.
- Ensure client-facing performance and reporting is excellent and undergoing continuous improvement.
- Conduct constant assessment of client satisfaction and performance through KPIs related to Financial Management as part of internal and external benchmarking.
- Conduct thorough analysis of statistics and trends to inform and guide the portfolio.
- Establish a knowledge management system to ensure Financial Management trends and lessons learned are captured to inform future decision making and best practices.
- Lead financial quarterly reviews with clients and stakeholders to communicate challenges and achievements.
- Contribute as practice specialist to resolving NYPO functional challenges by coordinating and developing long-term strategies towards innovative solutions.
- Review and lead financial process efficiencies, and contribute to the development of NYPO SOPs.
- Enable the assessment of risks versus opportunities considering the Internal Control Framework.
- Lead a high-performing, effective, and inclusive Finance team, ensuring team cohesion and integration.
- Foster and role-model a safe and inclusive work environment that upholds dignity and respect for all personnel.
- Uphold the highest standards of conduct and take decisive action to address behaviors that undermine inclusion, equity, or psychological safety.
- Ensure hybrid working arrangements are managed equitably, with conscious attention to ensuring remote and part-time team members have equal access to development opportunities, visibility, and recognition.
- Ensure DEI objectives are embedded in PER/PRAs for all ICS-10 and above Finance team members, and that training and development plans include inclusive leadership competencies.
- Ensure resource maximization and effective business planning embedded in business as usual (BAU).
- Lead the budget and business planning process, reflecting strategic and operational requirements.
- Monitor budget implementation and resource utilization/status related to NYPO's admin and LSS budgets.
- Steward management resources of NYPO clusters ensuring timely cost recovery and adequate pricing.
- Improve and, where necessary, develop costing/budgeting models to ensure adequate resource planning is embedded into new projects.
- Monitor NYPO's performance against financial targets.
Requirements
- Master degree (or equivalent) preferably in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related fields with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience; or Bachelor's degree preferably in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related fields with a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience.
- Progressive professional experience in business process analysis and/or redesign, and/or optimization in financial management, budget oversight, and strategic financial planning.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience managing teams in a professional environment is required.
- Experience fostering diverse and inclusive team cultures, including in hybrid or multicultural work environments, is desirable.
- Experience working in an international organization or the UN system is desirable.
- Fluent English required.
- Fluent French desirable.
- Fluent Spanish desirable.
- Fluent Arabic desirable.
- Fluent Russian desirable.
- Fluent Chinese, Mandarin desirable.
Skills
- Budget Process
- Continuous Improvement
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Planning
- Mentoring
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
- Effective communication
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Ongoing contract
Experience Level
- Senior Level
- ICS 11
Education Level
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- The UNOPS Global Portfolios Office (GPO) brings together diverse expertise to help partners deliver impact worldwide.
- With hubs in New York, Geneva, and Vienna, and expert teams operating globally, GPO leads multi-regional initiatives that advance sustainable development, climate action, and peacebuilding - including in some of the world’s most challenging environments.
- By leveraging our collective expertise and global networks, GPO supports UNOPS’ strategic priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals across more than 130 countries.
- We work closely with major global partners - including governments, international financial institutions, and UN agencies - to deliver a wide range of services, such as project management, fund management, hosting services, and HR support.
Equal Opportunity
- UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity.
- Our workforce consists of a wide range of nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities.
- We strive to sustain and strengthen this diversity, fostering an inclusive working environment where all personnel are treated with respect and have equal access to opportunities.
- We are committed to a fair and transparent selection process and welcome diverse perspectives, including those of women, indigenous and racialized communities, individuals of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, and persons with disabilities.
- We are committed to enabling all candidates to perform at their best during the assessment process.
- If you are shortlisted and require support or reasonable accommodation to complete any assessment, please inform our human resources team upon receiving your invitation.
- UNOPS has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment, and other forms of abusive conduct, including discrimination, abuse of authority, and harassment.
- To uphold these standards, background checks are conducted for all final candidates to help ensure that individuals with a history of such conduct are not hired.
- By applying for a position with UNOPS, candidates acknowledge and consent to these verification processes.