Programme Finance and Reporting Analyst, Nairobi, Kenya

 The Individual Contractor will undertake the following duties:

• Monitor budgetary commitments, including verification of charges and obligation documents in UMOJA for all financial transactions and evaluates trends of financial implementation and makes necessary recommendations to Task Manager.
• Review, appraise and revise, as necessary, all submissions for substantive programmes projects, ensuring compliance with guidelines and programme / project objectives; identifies problems / issues, seek clarification from departments, assess replies, and prepares a summary for the manager with suggestions for further action.
• Establish proper monitoring systems through scheduled reporting, review meetings and missions. Independently provides a full range of programme / project management and implementation information covering all phases of the programme / project cycle for the project initiatives, seeking guidance only in exceptional circumstances.
• Research, compile, analyse, summarize, and present basic information/data on the portfolio of projects highlighting noteworthy issues/trends for consideration by Management.
• Track resolutions and other legislative decisions that affect programme / project content and oversees the preparation of the relevant database(s) to ensure the incorporation of programmatic and other changes enacted by legislation.
• Prepare monitoring checklists, identifying stages of programme / project development, funding source, inputs by reviewing internal and external bodies, and follow-up actions required.
• Maintain and establish specific information products for the unit and assists management in providing information products to others.
• Maintain data governance and accuracy.
• Maintain data management tools in the unit.
• Supervise guides and trains other general service staff in the function.
• Assists with the collection and analysis of data as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning and decision making.
• Assists with visualizations and updating information material such as web pages or brochures
• Provide financial information for oversight queries from Corporate Services Division, UNON, donors and other oversight authorities.
• Provide technical advisory inputs on WBSE creation and Umoja-IPMR alignment with financial dashboards and reports.
• Review GEF Co -management reports and escalate identified variances.
• Participate in GFMTS data working groups and process improvement working groups.
• Conduct review for clearance of annual audit reports for GFMTS portfolios.
• Conduct review for clearance of annual project inventory reports for GFMTS portfolios.
• Incorporate GFMTS Annual Projections of Fee Incomes, Section expenditures and Project expenditures into the Finance Dashboard (from August 2026 to February 2027)
• Lead on  Project closures for MSP FSP Portfolios and provide support for the EA portfolio
• Support the design, development and maintenance of the task pooling system.
• Perform any other duty as may be assigned.

Qualifications/special skills

Management

Academic:

• Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Administration, Accounts,  finance or related field is desirable is required;
• A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA) or Equivalent is required
• Certification in Microsoft Data Analysis is required.
• Certification in Advanced Financial modelling is required.
• Minimum five years of experience in experience in Project Administration,  Finance and Budgeting is required;
• Experience in information management, database systems and use of power BI is required.
• Experience working with Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) such as Systems Applications and Products (SAP) specifically on Grantor and Fund Management Modules and Business Intelligence (BI) reporting is required.
• Experience in budget planning, analysis and monitoring is required
• Experience working with GEF projects is required;
• A minimum of one (1) year or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluency (both oral and written) in English is required.

Deadline : July 28, 2026