FINANCE AND BUDGET OFFICER, P4
Job Opening
Job Opening ID: 282398
Job Network : Management and Administration
Job Family : Finance
Category and Level : Professional and Higher Categories, P-4
Recruitment Type : Position Specific Job Openings – Fixed Term Limited
Duty Station : NAIROBI
Department/Office : United Nations Environment Programme
Date Posted : Aug 21, 2026
Deadline : Sep 19, 2026
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Org. Setting and Reporting
Responsibilities
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. This position is located in UNEP’s Law Division, OzonAction Branch at the Nairobi duty station. Under the direct supervision of the Head of the OzonAction Branch, the incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:
MEDIUM-TERM PLAN: • Reviews, analyses, and finalizes the preparation of the medium-term plan and its revisions on the basis of departmental submissions, taking into account recommendations and decisions of specialized intergovernmental bodies. • Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their review of the medium-term plan and its revisions; secures approval from the intergovernmental bodies and General Assembly. • Ensure legislative mandates are accurately translated into program budgets. BUDGET PREPARATION: • Reviews, analyses, and finalizes cost estimates and budget proposals, in terms of staff and non-staff requirements from programme at global level and in the regional offices, including programmatic aspects; ensure compliance with the medium-term plan and other legislative mandates. • Provides detailed input with respect to resource requirements for budget submissions. • Reviews, analyses, and finalizes program budget/financial implications to the programme in light of additional Legislative mandates. • Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in their budget review, assists in securing approval from the General Assembly and Legislative bodies. BUDGET ADMINISTRATION: • Issues allotments, authorizes sub-allotments, including redeployment of funds when necessary, ensuring appropriate expenditures. • Manages and monitors budget implementation and recommends reallocation of funds as necessary. • Monitors expenditures to ensure that they remain within authorized levels. • Administers and monitors extra-budgetary resources, including review of agreements and cost plans, ensuring compliance with regulations and rules and established policies and procedures. • Prepares budget performance submissions. • Reviews and finalizes budget performance reports, analysing variances between approved budgets and actual expenditures. • Leads the annual Financial Progress Report process as well as all financial reporting to the intergovernmental bodies, General Assembly, and manages audit processes and monitors implementation of audit recommendation. • Provides substantive support to relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies. GENERAL: • Collecting and analyzing data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decisionmaking, presentation and reporting. Provides advice and guidance, including training, on budgetary and financial policies and procedures, including results-based budgeting. • Participates in inter-departmental meetings and/or technical survey missions on matters related to resource requirements, programming and budgetary issues. • Keeps up to date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to program, ensuring compliance with intergovernmental recommendations and decisions as well as with United Nations policies and procedures. • Drafts reports for intergovernmental bodies and for management on budgetary issues, and correspondence. • Undertakes research and analysis of budgetary policies and procedures, makes recommendations for changes and/or modifications. • Acts as Certifying Officer under Financial Rule 110.4 to ensure that proposed obligations and expenditures are in accordance with approved budgets and established regulations and rules. • Liaises with the UNEP’s Corporate Services Division, UN Secretariat as well as UNDP and UNOPS offices on financial and administrative matters that may affect programme implementation and delivery. • Ensures the integrity of financial and management systems and the controls that underpin them. • Provides support with respect to representation of the Law Division in meetings of legislative organs. • Represents the Division in inter and intra-departmental meetings. • May plan, organize, manage and supervise the work of the Unit/Section assigned. • Incumbent may be asked to perform other related duties.
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