{"id":33048,"date":"2018-09-14T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=33048"},"modified":"2018-09-14T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:28:38","slug":"united-nations-office-for-project-services-recruitment-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/united-nations-office-for-project-services-recruitment-2018.html","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Office for Project Services Recruitment 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Ghana Operational Hub ba\u2026<br \/>\nThe United Nations Office for Project Services (<strong>UNOPS<\/strong>), Ghana Operational Hub based in Accra \u2013 Ghana with Country Offices in Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. UNOPS GHOH has developed a compelling solid reputation across the globe in the delivery of its core mandates in the areas of Project Management, Infrastructure and Procurement.What drives us is a passion to fight inequalities and to provide opportunities to those most vulnerable. This means we often work in the most challenging environments, building foundations for communities to function and people to live with dignity and respect. To succeed here, you\u2019ll need to be able to combine creativity with the organizational skills to manage numerous different projects to tight deadlines simultaneously, as well as working with the different units to meet their expectations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0Finance Assistant\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are therefore, looking for intellectually curious talented\u00a0<strong>qualified Ghanaians\u00a0<\/strong>with solid Financial Management acumen with stakeholder focus to join the team as\u00a0<strong>Finance Assistant<\/strong>\u00a0for the\u00a0<strong>Ghana Office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Things happen quickly at UNOPS- Ghana Operational Hub and the work culture encourages you to be an enthusiastic team player \u2013 a self-starter who can work cross-functionally and isn\u2019t frightened to take risks or try out new ways of doing things within UNOPS.<\/p>\n<p>Functional Responsibilities<br \/>\nUnder the direct<br \/>\nsupervision of the functional supervisor(s) who report to the H\u2026<br \/>\nUnder the direct<br \/>\nsupervision of the functional supervisor(s) who report to the Head of Support<br \/>\nServices, the Finance Assistant will provide financial and administrative support to the timely processing, recording, monitoring, and<br \/>\nmaintaining of financial transactions and accounts relating to payments and<br \/>\nreceipts in accordance with UNOPS\u2019 financial rules, regulations, policies, and processes.<strong>Functions \/ Key Results Expected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary of Key Functions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accounting and administrative support<\/li>\n<li>CO cash management<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Accounting and<br \/>\nadministrative support<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Provides accounting, payments, support, focusing<br \/>\non achievement of following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proper control of the supporting documents for payments and financial<br \/>\nreports for projects; preparation of vouchers for projects; PO vouchers; Pay<br \/>\nCycle and payment execution.<\/li>\n<li>Proper receipting of goods and services and establishment of<br \/>\naccruals.<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance of the internal expenditures control system which<br \/>\nensures that vouchers processed are matched and completed, transactions are<br \/>\ncorrectly recorded and posted in Enterprise system; travel claims, MPOs and<br \/>\nother entitlements are duly processed<\/li>\n<li>Timely corrective actions on unposted vouchers, including the<br \/>\nvouchers with budget check errors, match exceptions, unapproved vouchers.<\/li>\n<li>Presentation of information on the status of financial resources<br \/>\nas required.<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance of the Accounts<br \/>\nReceivables for projects and recording of deposits in Enterprise system<\/li>\n<li>Preparation of accounts-payable and PO vouchers for management<br \/>\nprojects.<\/li>\n<li>Review of payment requests including supporting documents against<br \/>\nthe annual work plan and UNOPS FRRs.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that vouchers processed are matched and completed, and<br \/>\ntransactions are correctly recorded and posted in ERP\/electronic or paper-based<br \/>\nsystems.<\/li>\n<li>Running of remittance cycle<br \/>\nand Creation of Remittance Advices to be sent to the bank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2. CO cash management<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ensures proper\u00a0<strong>CO cash management system<br \/>\nfunctioning<\/strong>focusing on achievement of the following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alternate to Finance Associate for timely review of cash position<br \/>\nfor local accounts to ensure sufficient funds on hand for disbursements. Timely<br \/>\nidentification and recording of receipts for income application.<\/li>\n<li>Alternate to Finance Associate for daily review of zero-balance<br \/>\naccount bank statements in Enterprise system to monitor imprest level;<br \/>\nidentification and recording of contributions.<\/li>\n<li>Management of cash receipts and petty cash.<\/li>\n<li>Timely and accurate preparation of bank reconciliations.<\/li>\n<li>Initiation of bank<br \/>\ntransfers and deals in Enterprise system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3. Knowledge<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>building<\/strong><strong>\u00a0and Knowledge sharing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Support the organization and delivery of training and learning initiatives for<br \/>\npersonnel on finance-related topics.<\/li>\n<li>Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities<br \/>\nof practice by synthesizing of lessons learnt and dissemination of best<br \/>\npractices in finance management support services<\/li>\n<li>Contribute feedback, ideas, and internal knowledge about processes<br \/>\nand best practices and utilize productively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Ghana Operational Hub ba\u2026 The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Ghana Operational Hub based in Accra \u2013 Ghana with Country&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-8B2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}