Background
- Bureau: Regional Bureau for Africa
- Contract Duration: 6 months
- Required Languages: English
- Desired Languages: Kiswahili
In today’s digital environment, the ability to collect, manage, and analyze data is critical to ensuring efficiency, transparency and strategic decision-making. The Finance Department plays a central role in supporting the organization’s Finance Resources of the organization. UNDP promotes its sustainable human development agenda by developing and fully operationalizing a dynamic, harmonized, and integrated resource management framework.
Duties and Responsibilities
Summary of Key Functions:
Under the supervision of the Head of Finance and in close collaboration with the ICT/Procurement and HR team, the intern will:
1. Ensure implementation of operational strategies and procedures, focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Full compliance with UN/UNDP rules and regulations of financial processes, financial records and reports.
- Provision of inputs to elaboration of work plans.
- Assistance in preparation of financial analyses and related reports.
2. Assistance in Finance Unit to do basic research, focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Conduct analysis on the workflow of finance unit and produce report on process optimization.
- Improve integrity of data used for Pay cycle process.
- Liaison with other United Nations agencies for information relating to payments
3. Provide. accounting and administrative support, focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Processing of financial documentation (vouchers, supporting documents, invoices, etc.) and maintaining internal expenditures control system by ensuring that vouchers processed are matched and completed, transactions are correctly recorded and posted in Quantum system.
- Follow up with other teams in the office for information relating to payments.
- Assistance to analyze and monitor financial related dashboard.
- Financial support to country office programme teams (as assigned by the supervisor).
- Maintenance of the proper filing system for financial records and documents.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Bachelor of Commerce, Business Administration in Accounting, CPA/ACCA student
Experience:
- Enrolled in a Bachelors or Master’s Programme
- In the final year of a bachelor’s/ Masters programme.
- Or within one year after graduation from a Bachelor’s, Master’s
Core Competencies
Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Additional Competencies:
- Ability to perform a variety of repetitive and routine tasks and duties related to finance screening, collecting and preparation of documentation, data input, transactions tracking, filing, 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 financial/Accounting Rules and Regulations
- Strong IT Excel , Digital filing skills
- Ability to provide input to business processes re-engineering, implementation of new system
Deadline: Monday, December 1, 2025