About UNICEF: Employment

Finance Officers

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.

UNICEF is looking for Finance Officers to be responsible for accounting control, recording, reporting of assets, liabilities and income. You will also monitor the appropriate disbursements of funds and payments of accounts in accordance with the rules, regulations and established budgetary limits of UNICEF.

Your Profile:

• Advanced university degree in accounting, finance or business administration.
• Depending on the level of the position, three to ten years of progressively responsible professional work experience in finance and accounting, some of which should be at the international level.
• Good judgement, initiative, high sense of responsibility, organizational and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to plan, manage and monitor the effective use and safekeeping of fixed assets and financial resources.
• Fluency in English and another UN language (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is required.
• Ability to work effectively in an international and multicultural environment.

To Apply:

To apply, please submit your application as soon as possible, quoting ‘Spain – Finance’ in the subject line.

All applications must contain:
• A cover letter explaining the reasons for applying. This letter must not be longer than one page.
• A completed Application form, which can be downloaded from this site.

Do not send any attachments or appendices other than the required documents.

Applications should be submitted to UNICEF no later than February 20, 2006. Candidates called for interviews will be contacted by UNICEF. Due to the high number of candidates, UNICEF will only contact candidates in whom we have a further interest.

Remuneration:

UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based on the United Nations Common System. For further information on the UN Common System salaries and benefits, please visit the United Nations Web site at: http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/.

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