Finance Intern, Nairobi

• Organization: UNOPS - United Nations Office for Project Services
• Country: Kenya
• City: Nairobi
• Office: UNOPS East Africa Hub Nairobi
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UNOPS Building | 00621 Nairobi | Kenya | Tel: +254 207 621 120

Closing date: Tuesday, 9 August 2016

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Vacancy code: VA/2016/B5303/10639
Position title: Finance Intern
Department/office: AFR, KEOH, Kenya
Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya
Contract type: Intern
Contract level: Intern
Duration: 6 months
Application period: 03-Aug-2016 to 10-Aug-2016
United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
Background Information - UNOPS
Background Information UNOPS
UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Working in some of the world's most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our partners' expectations.
With over 7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need it.
A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of scale.
Background Information - Kenya
The UNOPS East Africa Hub is located in Nairobi and oversees the organizations operations in Somalia, South Sudan and Burundi. The Hub covers a large geographic spread, including Eritrea, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros, in addition to those mentioned above. UNOPS in Kenya implements a large portfolio of projects in partnership with other UN agencies and various donors on the ground, ranging from physical infrastructure to transactional projects.
Functional Responsibilities

• Process payments in accordance with UNOPS Financial rules and procedures.
• Maintanace of finance registry.
• Provide finance supporting documents for audit and other purposes.
• Processing of financial reports.
• Full compliance of financial processes and financial records with UNOPS rules, regulations, policies.
• Vendor and Pooled account reconciliations.
• Management of finance registry, for proper control and tracking of documents submitted to finance for payments.
• Processing of financial documentation (vouchers, supporting documents, telephone invoices, etc.) and maintaining internal control system that ensures vouchers processed are matched and completed, transactions are correctly recorded and posted in Atlas; travel claims and other entitlements are duly processed.
• Production and analysis of financial data quality reports.
• Extraction and consolidation of payment supporting documents and other financial information as requested by various sources.
• Maintenance of an effective filing system for financial records and documents.
• Participation in the trainings for the operations and projects staff on Finance.
• Contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.Perform any other tasks, as assigned by management.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Competencies

• Ability to share knowledge and experiences.
• Ability to perform a variety of routine finance tasks and duties that entails screening, collecting and preparation of documentation, data input, transactions tracking, filing and provision of information.
• Ability to review data, identify and adjust discrepancies.
• Ability to produce accurate and well documented records conforming to the required standard.
• Good knowledge of generally acceptable accounting principles.
• Ability to meet designated deadlines.
• Focuses on result for the stakeholders and responds positively to feedback.
• Strong I.T skills.
• Keen to details.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, finance or awaiting to graduate in any other relevant field.

Languages

• Fluency in written and oral English and the language of the duty station required.
• Knowledge of second UN working language desirable.

Contract type, level and duration
Contract type: Internship
Contract duration: 6 Months
For more details about UNOPS internships, please follow this link:
http://www.unops.org/english/whoweneed/Pages/Internships.aspx
Additional Considerations

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time (CET)
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.