Finance Associate

Leads day-to-day financial services for UNDP Honduras, safeguarding budget, accounting, cash, treasury and cost-recovery processes while supervising support staff, strengthening internal controls and providing accurate analysis and reporting for country-office management and projects.

Department: Finance Unit

• Maintain compliant financial recording and reporting and follow up audit recommendations
• Map finance processes, strengthen internal controls and update standard operating procedures
• Prepare financial analysis, budgets and cost-saving proposals for country-office management
• Administer project budgets, spending limits, cost-recovery billing and partner contributions
• Control supporting documents, invoices, ledger accounts, receivables and project closure actions
• Manage cash positions, bank reconciliations, deposits, transfers and cash-flow forecasts
• Resolve financial data anomalies and take corrective action on invoice and transaction exceptions
• Train operations and programme staff and supervise Finance Unit support personnel

• Fully qualified accountant from an internationally accredited institute, completion of the UNDP Finance Training and Certification Programme, or successful completion of the required UNDP finance testing and certification route
• At least seven years of finance and accounting experience with secondary education, or four years with a bachelor’s degree
• Advanced spreadsheet skills and experience with ERP financials, office software and database packages
• Knowledge of IPSAS or IFRS
• Fluency in Spanish and working knowledge of English

• This local fixed-term vacancy is open only to Tier 0, Tier 1 and Tier 2 applicants
• The role supervises support staff in the Finance Unit