National Finance Officer at WFP, Chisinau, Moldova

Deadline: 21 October 2022

The World Food Programme (WFP) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of National Finance Officer in Chisinau, Moldova. The duration of this post is 12 months.

World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

Key Job Responsibilities

The National Finance Officer will perform the following functions:

• Maintain awareness of corporate finance and resource management strategies and major ongoing programmatic initiatives, participating where appropriate using finance and resource management expertise.
• Contribute towards the development of country specific plans and processes, aligned with Regional and wider WFP strategy, policies and processes to meet the food assistance needs of beneficiaries within the Country.
• Report on key data for financial status and outcomes of projects in accordance with corporate governance requirements, ensuring accuracy, deadlines, and accounting processes are complied with.
• Monitor budgets, and carry out forecasting for new and ongoing projects according to established corporate procedures and requirements.
• Perform bank reconciliations, disbursements, clearance of receivables, overall cash management and monthly financial closures on a regular basis in accordance with corporate requirements.
• Where necessary, deliver core administrative services, working with contractors and following standard processes to provide cost-effective, quality and timely services to WFP staff.
• Where necessary, undertake basic human resource functions related to staff benefits, recruitment of local staff, and training.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicant must have:

• Advanced University Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields, or First University Degree in the same subject(s) with additional years of related work experience plus membership in an international recognized professional accountancy body such as Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Institute of Certified Public Accounts (ICPA) or equivalent.
• Fluency (level C) in English language, knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.
• Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit applications through online process.

For more information, visit WFP.