Finance Assistant

Provide finance support in FAO Shared Services Centre in Budapest by validating source documents, reviewing transactions, correcting errors and supporting due diligence. The assistant prepares reports and correspondence, improves automated processes, resolves service issues and guides junior staff and internal customers.

• Review financial source documents for completeness, accuracy and validity
• Analyse and verify transactions in the integrated financial system
• Investigate errors, take corrective action and ensure clearance procedures
• Support testing and implementation of financial-process automation
• Monitor transactions and support ex-ante or post-factum due diligence
• Compile data and prepare worksheets, reports and correspondence
• Resolve operational finance-service requirements and customer queries
• Guide and train junior finance staff and internal customers

• Secondary school education
• Four years of relevant finance, accounting, cash-management or asset-management support experience
• Working knowledge of English at proficiency level C
• Very good Microsoft Office and office-technology skills
• Hungarian nationality or existing work authorization and residence within commuting distance

• General Service post recruited locally
• Applicant must have local work authorization and reside within commuting distance