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**TERMS AND CONDITIONS**:
**JOB TITLE**: Finance Officer

**TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT**: National Fixed-term - NOA

**DURATION & START DATE**: 1 year, renewable

**UNIT/DIVISION**: Finance

**DUTY STATION** **(**City, Country)**:Regional Bureau in Cairo (RBC), Cairo, Egypt

**REPORT TO** **(**JOB TITLE)**: Regional Finance Officer

**ABOUT WFP**:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

WFP’s Regional Bureau for the Middle East and Northern Africa (RBC), based in Cairo, Egypt, provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and direction to WFP operations and activities in 16 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and Yemen. These country offices aim to assist roughly one-third of all of WFP’s beneficiaries (approx. 30 million) in some of the most critical humanitarian emergencies of our time. RBC is also active in the ‘Changing Lives’ side of WFP’s mandate, helping national governments and local communities improve nutrition, livelihoods, school feeding, social protection, climate and disaster risk reduction and other programmes that build resilience and support development.

**WHY WORK AT WFP?**

**SAVING & CHANGING LIVES ❤**:

- Make a difference, the world will notice._
We are driven by our mission to fight world hunger and feed people’s dreams of a brighter future.

**GLOBAL COMMUNITY**:

- Build bridges that unite people across the world._
Being part of a global, diverse and multicultural community like WFP, will continuously expose you to new ideas and perspectives.
How we deliver our mission in a deep respect for personal and cultural differences and close collaboration between every member of our global team, will certainly enrich your experience and knowledge on so many levels.

**UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES**:

- Unlock possibilities you never thought you'd find._
WFP goes anywhere it is needed and does whatever it takes to get the job done.

**LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE**:

- Reach beyond yourself and discover your true potential._
WFP offers the kind of life-changing experiences you’re unlikely to find in many other organizations.

**Join us to make a difference**
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**JOB PURPOSE**:
To support the stewardship of WFP’s resources through preparation and monitoring of budgets, forecasting, analyzing, reporting on key data and providing basic administrative support to enable effective management of funds. This is a regional office position and 75% of the time will be spent on managing the regional office finances whilst 25% will be spent on supporting country offices in the region.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)**:

- Support corporate finance and resource management strategies and major ongoing corporate initiatives, participating where appropriate using finance and resource management expertise.
- Contribute towards the development of regional plans and processes, aligned with the wider WFP finance strategy.
- Report on key data for financial status and outcomes of projects in accordance with corporate governance requirements, ensuring accuracy and deadlines.
- Monitor functional unit budgets and report monthly on the status to unit heads.
- Review bank reconciliations, process payments for the regional bureau and some country offices, clear receivables, overall cash management and monthly financial closures on a regular basis in accordance with corporate requirements.
- Where necessary cover the work of country office Finance Officers who are on leave and deliver core, administrative services working with contractors and following standard procedures to provide cost-effective, quality and timely services to WFP staff.
- Where necessary perform basic human resource, functions related to your unit staff, recruitment of local staff, training and performance evaluation.
- Collate data and contribute to preparation of accurate and timely reporting, providing management with financial, staffing and resource consumption information to enable them to make informed decisions.
- Track and collate data to support others to improve policies, systems and procedures in order to minimize financial risks, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and ensure services are aligned with business objectives.
- Contribute to the development and update of standard operation procedures to guide delivery of services in your unit including financial controls, supporting periodic risk and internal control assessments to identify areas which may present potential audit, compliance or financial ris