The Office of Financial Resources Management (OFRM), Bureau for Management Services, supports UNDP in the promotion of its sustainable human development agenda. It achieves this by developing and making fully operational a dynamic and harmonized integrated resource management framework based on comprehensive analysis that enhances UNDP’s financial performance, as well as facilitates UN reform and coherence.

As part of OFRM’s Financial Business Partnering Division, reporting to the Deputy CFO, the Innovation and Solutions Team formulates innovative financial solutions. The Team supports senior finance staff seeking advice on complex and new financial and related policy issues that go beyond the existing financial frameworks, to transform finance and support development results. The services provided include policy advice, financial management training, development and review of new types of financial arrangements, tools and information management. The team supports other OFRM units in extracting and interpreting financial data, and through the Analytics team located in Kuala Lumpur, supports all OFRM units and the wider UNDP financial community with their analytical needs and reports.

Under the day-to-day supervision of the Finance Analytics Lead, the Finance Business Associate is a key member of the Analytics team, which is responsible for providing consistent, concise, accurate and actionable reporting and analysis by data mining, extraction and interpretation of information to help generate financial and budgetary insights that enable informed decision making and improve financial performance. Within this team, this role involves the formulation of business units’ reports, through data mining/extraction, standard reports and queries, and ad-hoc analysis. The role will also provide some support to continuous improvement in reporting, financial analysis and service delivery, by identifying opportunities for improvement and drafting functional specifications for ERP and/or BI system changes, as required.

This role may also require assisting the functional teams on Procure to Pay, Record to Report, HR Finance, Revenues and Regional Tier 1 processes. This post is co-located with UNDP’s Global Shared Service Centre (GSSC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Reporting to the Finance Analytics Lead, the Finance Business Associate will provide financial reporting and analysis services to OFRM and the wider Finance community.

Core:

Innovation
Ability to make new and useful ideas work

Leadership
Ability to persuade others to follow

People Management
Ability to improve performance and satisfaction

Communication
Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform

Delivery
Ability to get things done

Technical:

Primary

Financial Reporting and Analysis
Ability to evaluate financial data, derive relevant findings and present them in a meaningful manner

Audit
Ability to examine and verify accounts and records

Accounting (General)
Knowledge of accounting concepts, principles, regulations, and policies and ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations

Financial Planning and Budgeting
Ability to create and manage processes to achieve UNDP’s long and short-term financial goals

Functional Technical Knowledge
Firm understanding of business intelligence tools, and the architecture and design of advanced integrated management systems, preferably including PeopleSoft/Oracle. Good SQL and/or Python skills and ability to extract data from PeopleSoft using SQL, SQR, and other tools is a distinct advantage. People Tools expertise is also an asset. Good skills in data visualization and developing reports and dashboards using Microsoft Power BI and/or Tableau is a distinct advantage. Knowledge of and interest in technological innovations, such as machine learning, big data analysis, etc.is an asset.
 

Secondary

Knowledge Management
Ability to efficiently handle and share information and knowledge

Operational Efficiency
Ability to identify and execute opportunities to improve operational efficiency

Problem Solving
Accurately accumulating information and its analysis; forecasting potential problems and planning; allowing for alternative, creative solutions and identifying most reasonable solutions
 

Education:   

• Secondary Education with specialized certification in Accounting and/or Finance, with certification in one or more of the following: SQL, SQR, Python, OBIEE or equivalent; and complex data extraction routines. University degree in Finance or Accounting is desirable. OR
• Secondary Education with specialized certification in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any related quantitative field, with relevant experience in Finance. University degree in Information Technology or Computer Science is desirable.  
• Professionally qualified accountants from an internationally recognized institute of accountancy will have a distinct advantage.
• Long-listed candidates will be required to undergo the UNDP Accounting and Finance Test (UNDP AFT).

Experience:   

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience with Secondary Education or 4 years of relevant experience with Bachelor’s degree, with finance or Business Intelligence (BI) environments.
• Hands-on experience in analysing financial information, data modelling, data mining, managing master data, mapping of source to target data, conducting data quality tests, documenting functional requirements, and creating reports and dashboards in the financial arena a plus. 

Language Requirements:   

• Fluency in English. Knowledge of any other UN languages (French/Spanish/Arabic) is a plus.

Other:   

• Hands-on proficiency with SQL, SQR, Python, BI tools, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise and/or Tableau.
• Experience in production of financial reports and data management preferred.
• Experience in the usage of computers and MS Office packages
• Advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• Hands-on experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), preferably with PeopleSoft or Oracle is desirable.
• Knowledge of and interest in technological innovations, such as machine learning, big data analysis, etc. is a distinct advantage.
   

Important applicant information

All posts in the GS categories are subject to local recruitment.

Internal mobility at GSSU is strongly encouraged and we reserve the right to reassign the newly appointed staff members with similar skillset and educational qualifications for similar functions and job categories at the same level in GSSU.  The internal lateral movements will be determined based on the needs of the organization while allowing the newly recruits to broaden their skills, build networks and gain fresh experience and to better align their profiles with the jobs.

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Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

Workforce diversity

UNDP is committed to achieving diversity within its workforce, and encourages all qualified applicants, irrespective of gender, nationality, disabilities, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension