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Administrative and Financial Assistant

UNDSSBamako, Mali
Category | Grade:General | NPSA-5Deadline:30 Jul 2026Job ID:35397Posted on:24 Jul 2026
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Overview

Supports UNDSS Mali’s financial and administrative operations by preparing procurement requests, monitoring shared-security budgets and contributions, processing invoices, maintaining office assets and records, and coordinating travel, meetings and common-service follow-up with UN partners.

Department: UNDSS Mali

Languages

Required: French

Desired: English

Job Areas

  1. Finance & Budgeting
  2. Administration & Executive Support

Minimum Experience

2 years

Estimated Salary

Not available

Responsibilities

  • Advise security managers on financial matters and prepare procurement requests in Quantum
  • Track agency contributions to the shared security budget and allocate funds across budget lines
  • Monitor expenditure against approved budgets and analyse differences between budgets and actual spending
  • Review contractor invoices and coordinate budget-execution reporting with UNDP
  • Maintain offices, assets, official records, vehicles, fuel controls and memoranda with UN agencies
  • Arrange administrative support for training, meetings, travel, tickets, hotels, shipments and customs clearance
  • Follow up financial and administrative matters with UNDP administration, common services and the Operations Management Team
  • Maintain organisational knowledge and support an effective learning environment

Requirements

  • Secondary education
  • At least five years of administrative and financial management experience with secondary education, or two years with a bachelor’s degree
  • Practical experience with financial and administrative management systems
  • Records filing and archiving experience
  • Command of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Fluency in spoken and written French

Skills

Budget ManagementFinancial AdministrationAccountingProcurement SupportInvoice ReviewAsset ManagementRecords ManagementEvent LogisticsTravel AdministrationFinancial Analysis

Tools

QuantumAtlasMicrosoft WordExcelPowerPointOutlook

Additional info

  • This is a regular National Personnel Services Agreement at NPSA-5
  • UNDP may select more than one candidate or retain applications for similar roles