Risk and Compliance Officer

United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
Org. Setting and Reporting
The Department of Operational Support (DOS) was established to provide end-to-end
operational support, advisory services and other solutions to operating entities across the
Secretariat, including departments, offices away from headquarters, peace operations, and
regional commissions.
The Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda (RSCE), was established in July 2010,
following the adoption of General Assembly resolution 64/269. The Centre provides efficient,
client-oriented and scalable services with the goal of moving transactional, non-location
dependent administrative functions to the Centre from its client entities. This includes
transactional elements of human resources, finance, multimodal movement and control,
personnel and cargo transport and information and communications technology (ICT) support.
In addition to these services, the Office of the Director RSCE and support offices through the
Deputy Director provides overall guidance on the operations of the RSCE including strategic
planning, communication, budgeting, human resources management, property management,
quality assurance and business intelligence, conference services, record keeping and archive
management, and audit response and risk management.
For more information, please visit https://rsce.unmissions.org.
This position is located in the Uniformed Personnel Service Line at the RSCE under the
Department of Operational Support.
The Finance Assistant at this level reports to the Finance Officer in the Service Line.
Responsibilities
The focus of this position is to support the operations of the service line on payment related
issues within the Service Delivery Model of the RSCE to provide smooth transactional
services to its client missions.
On behalf of the Service Line, the Finance Assistant performs the following tasks:
•Processing of non-travel related commercial vendors or services to all RSCE Client Missions
(processing invoices resulting from commitments such as purchase orders, fund
commitments, direct expenditures, medical clinic invoices and replenishment of petty cash.
•Assist in the development of the service line's annual budget, particularly with respect to the
establishment of major resourcing priorities, and prepare cost estimates and budget proposals,
in line with the Service Line's resourcing requirements. Assist in the review, analysis and
revision of data with respect to the finalization of the budget proposals as well as Result
Based Budgeting inputs.
•Prepare staff members' entitlements including claims, danger pay, daily subsistence
allowance, mission subsistence allowance, mission subsistence allowance for Government
Provided Personnel, Civilian Police and Staff Officers, volunteer living allowance and any
other allowances for payments for payments in conformity and adherence to applicable
United Nations policies e.g., staff rules, financial regulations and rules, AT/AI issuances or
practices, IPSAS policy framework etc.
•Provides advice, financial interpretations, adaptation and corrective actions in response to
audits and other queries to ensure adherence to the UN Financial Regulations and Rules, Staff
Rules, Administrative Instructions, Bulletins and Circulars under the guidance of the Service
Delivery Manager.
•Receives invoices and records in tracking tool; reviews completeness of relevant supporting
documentation for invoices and payment requests; processes vendor payments after
verification of accuracy and consistency with purchase order and goods receipt/ service
certification; advises vendors, Procurement Office, Self-accounting Units (SAU), R&I, etc. on
any missing documentation or anomalies that may delay payment within one business day;
following up to obtain missing documentation; maintains record of pending issues, updating
case files weekly; responds to queries from vendors, Procurement, SAU, R&I, etc.; assists in
measuring performance against established KPI's.
•Provide services related to the processing of payroll related payments and electronic bank
transfers for non-payroll payments, processing cheque payments. BP maintenance for new
staff and amendment of bank details for existing staff. Processing local transfer payments to
house banks. Verifying and checking all transfers to house banks depending on currency and
location. Imprest payment and preparation of imprest statements. Preparation of remittance
requests to UNHQ and projection of off-cycle payments. Liaising with local/ international
banks. Answering queries from staff members, missions and banks; keeping accurate records
for the purpose of auditing, and performance reports.
•Payroll processing for national staff after reconciliation of the attendance records; review and
recovery of debts owed to UN; payroll adjustments (telephone charges, transport charges,
gym fees), WIG, new salary scale, etc; final payment/ pension processing, pension monthly
report and reconciliation and consolidation of pension mod