Consultant Finance, Cforc

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26 November 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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JOB TITLE: Finance Consultant
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Consultant
UNIT/DIVISION: CFORC
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Remote Working (place of current residence)
DURATION: 11 months

Contribution Accounting and Donor Financial Reporting Branch (CFORC) is responsible for ensuring accountability to donors on the utilization of contributions and to support financial management through the accounting for contributions, project analysis and reporting. The objectives of the Branch are to (i) ensure timely and accurate reporting to donors, (ii) improve financial management in accounting for contributions, income and expenditures and; (iii) support the financial management of projects.
With increased complexity in donor financial reporting, the Branch requires temporary support in the form of a consultant to augment its current capacity, in particular in the area of specialised financial reporting with a possibility of a new stream to be established.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the supervision of the Finance Officer, the consultant will be responsible as follows:

- Prepare specialised donor financial reports in compliance with donor’s agreements, including financial analysis. Such role includes but not limited to dialogue with Country Offices/ Regional Bureau/ HQ functional units on procedural, compliance and process guidance.
- Oversee contribution receivables of relevant grants including cash posting, clearances, other accounting adjustments of receivables and related matters.
- Ensure issuance and submission of specialized donor financial reports in accurate and timely manner, with due reconciliation of financial information from WFP systems: WINGS, BO, COMET, others.
- Empower Country Offices through development and update of donor specific guidelines, cross functional collaboration on identifying technical/system solutions to address non-standard reporting requirements.
- Contribute to CFORC representation in the Changing Donor Landscape exercise and the inter-agency working groups.
- Respond to queries and provide financial information such as grant utilization and analysis to support decisions on grant reprogramming or refinancing when necessary.
- Advocate usage of and provide guidance and training on the existing monitoring tools among the Country Offices to improve the reporting processes, as well as propose possible improvement in the communication strategy.
- Facilitate management of unspent balances from closing /expiring grants, strengthening a mechanism to ensure proper completion of the full contribution cycle.
- Proceed with refunds of unspent balance in line with donor conditions in timely and accurate manner.
- Provide input and process to manage standard and specialized report contribution and reporting for automation to enhance the contribution management and donor financial reporting business process.
- Participate in testing if any system change, development or enhancement and contribute to improved efficiency in the business process.
- Perform any other duties as required.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:
Ensure accuracy and timely delivery in all tasks performed; Produce organized, accurate and well documented records confirming required format with well analysed data; improve business processes.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
**Education**:
University degree in Accounting or Finance
**Experience**:

- At least three years of prof