
Administrative and Financial Assistant
Category | Grade:General | NPSA-5Deadline:30 Jul 2026Job ID:35397Posted on:24 Jul 2026
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
- Finance & Budgeting
- 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