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UNHCR, the UN Refugee AgencyRegional Controller
Sep. 2024Nairobi County, KenyaThe Regional Controller is responsible for the following:
- Monitor, guide, and support the management of all financial resources in the region following-up as required to ensure the application of policies, instructions, and best practices; the cost-effective use of resources; and the prevention, mitigation, and solution of problems and challenges. - Monitor and guide the implementation of internal control mechanisms to prevent fraud and mismanagement, ensuring compliance with UNHCR's policies and procedures related to administrative and financial management. - Oversee and ensure the provision of support, guidance, and capacity development to the financial and administrative staff as well as other staff with financial and administrative responsibilities.
considering relevant risk management aspects and funding of prioritized activities. - Monitor and support the regional management of financial accounting, treasury as well as procurement and Cash-Based Intervention (CBI) operations as they relate to financial management, to ensure adequate application of policies, instructions, and guidelines, safeguarding UNHCR’s assets. - Support and provide financial analysis and input to reports, including the mid-year and year-end reports, as well as specific reports requested by the Director, UNHCR’s Controller, or other HQ units. - Liaise with governmental, intergovernmental, and other partner entities on resource management issues with a view to ensuring smooth implementation of UNHCR’s activities and represent the Organization at relevant regional internal and external meetings regarding administrative and financial management. - Act as focal point for internal and external audit.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee AgencySenior Budget Officer
Jan. 2024Nairobi County, KenyaThe Senior Budget Officer provides substantive resource management guidance to the Senior Management in the East Horn Africa and Great Lakes region. Within the Regional Controller Unit, the position is responsible for guiding, monitoring, advising on, and supporting budget and finance management across the operations within the region. With the objective of constantly improving cost-efficiency, the incumbent monitors and reports on financial performance to ensure compliance with UN financial regulations and UNHCR's rules, policies and procedures, value for money principles. The position regularly checks budget controls to ensure their relevance with financial risks. It reviews budget plans to ensure their coherence and consistency. The job involves frequent contacts with managers in UNHCR offices within the region and counterparts in other organizations.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee AgencyHead of Performance Analytics and Reporting Unit
Feb. 2018 - Jan. 2024Geneva Area, SwitzerlandThe Division of Strategic Planning and Results (DSPR) guides and supports strategic planning and multi-year planning; ensures that planning and resource allocation processes are simplified, evidence-based and coherent; strengthen results-based management and reporting on impact and outcomes and resources allocated; strengthens management and oversight of projects implemented directly or by implementing partners. Within the Division, the Performance Analytics and Reporting Unit (PARU) has a key role in preparing UNHCR's annual programme budget proposals and reporting on their implementation both from the financial and impact perspectives. The two main budgets are the Annual Programme Budget of the High Commissioner for Refugees ($10 Billion per year) and the Programme of the UN Regular Budget that funds UNHCR ($42 million per year). The Unit advises Senior management on resource allocation by undertaking detailed projections of funds available VS budget commitments. To this end, and for all other budget-related analysis, the Unit develops and maintains dashboards and reports running on Business Information technology . Users include senior management, Regional Bureaux, external stakeholders, Committees of member states, including the ACABQ, CPC, 5th Committee, the Board of Auditors, CEB HLCM, etc. The Unit comprises of 10 staff members, of which 8 are professionals.
UNHCRHead of Performance Analytics and Reporting Unit
Feb. 2018 - Jan. 2024Geneva Area, SwitzerlandThe Division of Strategic Planning and Results (DSPR) guides and supports strategic planning and multi-year planning; ensures that planning and resource allocation processes are simplified, evidence-based and coherent; strengthen results-based management and reporting on impact and outcomes and resources allocated; strengthens management and oversight of projects implemented directly or by implementing partners. Within the Division, the Performance Analytics and Reporting Unit (PARU) has a key role in preparing UNHCR's annual programme budget proposals and reporting on their implementation both from the financial and impact perspectives. The two main budgets are the Annual Programme Budget of the High Commissioner for Refugees ($10 Billion per year) and the Programme of the UN Regular Budget that funds UNHCR ($42 million per year). The Unit advises Senior management on resource allocation by undertaking detailed projections of funds available VS budget commitments. To this end, and for all other budget-related analysis, the Unit develops and maintains dashboards and reports running on Business Information technology . Users include senior management, Regional Bureaux, external stakeholders, Committees of member states, including the ACABQ, CPC, 5th Committee, the Board of Auditors, CEB HLCM, etc. The Unit comprises of 10 staff members, of which 8 are professionals.
United NationsChief Finance and Budget Officer (CFBO)
Aug. 2012 - Feb. 2018UN ESCWA LebanonLed a team in charge with delivering a comprehensive platform of financial and budgetary services to the operations of ESCWA spreading across a region of 21 member states from Iraq to the East to Morocco to the West. Clients for services included UN agencies in the Regional and UNIFIL. Services include budget formulation, defense and reporting; daily and year accounting ; payroll, payments; UN House Bank for Lebanon; setting and overseeing controls; drafting of Standard Operating Procedures; providing expert advice to allotment holders; training and support to colleagues on budgetary and financial issues; reviewing and clearing XB project proposals; contributing substantive inputs to ongoing management reforms.
Successfully led the Office’s transition to new accounting standards (IPSAS) and to the new Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP-SAP);
Formulated, defended and deployed the Programme Budgets that supported the office’s strategic realignment within a quickly evolving socio economic context;
Was appointed by the UN Controller member of Steering Committee tasked with the design and configuration of the new Programming and Budgeting application for the whole UN Secretariat (SAP);
Chaired the Local Contract Committee (LCC) and the Local Property Survey Board (LPSB).
International Atomic Energy AgencyHead, Programme and Budget Section
Jan. 2009 - Aug. 2012Vienna, AustriaSet the framework for programme budget proposals worth €1 billion per biennium and defended them before the Executive Board and finance and budget committees. Reported on the implementation of approved budgets. Contributed to improve the IAEA's results based budget framework by simplifying and streamlining Performance Indicators to align them to SMART criteria.
Achievements include designing, preparing and successfully defending 3% to 5% real growth budgets at a time of fiscal constraints; revising and simplifying the programme budget document presentation; shifting the budgeting of posts to FTEs, which lead to a reduction of the budget envelope; and providing expert advice in the design of the new planning and budgeting application (Hyperion), a benchmark for contemporary programme budgeting in the UN system. Established the major capital budget for the IAEA and a funding mechanism to finance it.
International Civil Aviation OrganizationChief, Financial Services Section / Chief of Finance Branch
Sep. 2006 - Jan. 2009Montreal, Canada AreaResponsible for the management of accounting, budgeting, payroll, payments and treasury services in respect to an organization of 800 staff comprising HQ in Montreal and regional offices. Chaired the HQ procurement committee. Was Secretary to the Finance Committee of ICAO's governing board.
Achievements include designing and preparing the first results-based Programme Budget; leading the deployment of a split assessment contribution system (USD and CAD); providing the budgetary framework for an extensive organizational realignment whereby 100 posts were moved to revenue generating activities; and Providing functional leadership for the development of ERP budgeting module.
UNFPAChief, Budget Section
Feb. 2001 - Sep. 2006New York, NY, USAResponsible for preparing, implementing, monitoring and reporting on the UNFPA Biennial Support Budget covering HQ and the field, including submission to the ACABQ and the UNFPA/UNDP Executive Board.
Designed three successive biennial budgets that provided UNFPA with the funding required to finance a remarkable management reforms comprising a HQ realignment, the establishment of a country office "typology" and regional offices, as well as the roll out of an ERP (Atlas - PeopleSoft)
UNFPAStatistics and Planning Officer
Jan. 1997 - Jan. 2001New YorkResponsible for the formulation of the financial framework of the Work Plan setting the organization's mid term strategy;
Responsible for monitoring of and reporting on all of the organization’s financial flows to assess the financial health of the organization, upgraded and simplified reports through the use of IT;
Upgraded a model for the allocation of funds to country programmes based on selected indicators of development (infant mortality, maternal mortality, gender equity and equality, etc);
Responsible for managing the administrative, staffing and financial aspects of UNFPA’s Technical Support Services (TSS), its technical network of consultants and experts for providing technical support to country offices.
UNFPAJunior Professional Officer
Jan. 1995 - Jan. 1997MoroccoManaged a portfolio of country projects in the area of census and population research.
Significantly upgraded UNFPA's visibility within the donor community through the use of multimedia technology.
ENEAJunior Researcher
Sep. 1993 - Oct. 1994Rome Area, ItalyUpdated and managed the database for a software (RAINS) that was the tool to develop alternative energy-production scenarios. The ultimate goal was to assess environmental sustainability of such scenarios. This work performed in the context of Italy's input to Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that is part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Unione Italiana di Riassicurazione, SpAReinsurance underwriter
Jan. 1992 - Nov. 1992Rome Area, ItalyAssessment of risk-profitability of reinsurance policies through the use of a home grown software
ItalsielSystems Analyst
Sep. 1991 - Jan. 1992Rome Area, ItalyProgramming of large software application for the public sector.
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