Finance Analyst - Benin City Mayors Challenge - Benin, Nigeria

Job title : Finance Analyst - Benin City Mayors Challenge - Benin, Nigeria

Job Location : Edo Deadline : June 24, 2026 Quick Recommended Links

Duties And Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the UNDP Advisor, cities and local governments, and in coordination with the city team, the Finance Analyst will perform the following functions:

• Ensure Financial Management and Administrative Coordination
• Provide financial and administrative support for the effective implementation of project activities in accordance with UNDP rules, regulations, policies, and procedures;
• Monitor project budgets, expenditures, and delivery rates, ensuring proper utilization of resources and timely identification of financial discrepancies or implementation delays;
• Review payment requests, invoices, supporting documentation, and financial records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance prior to submission for processing;
• Support budget planning, expenditure forecasting, and preparation of budget revisions and financial projections as required;
• Maintain and oversee financial and administrative filing systems, ensuring accurate record keeping, traceability, and accessibility of documentation;
• Coordinate with project teams, implementing partners, vendors, consultants, and UNDP operations units to facilitate timely administrative and financial processes;
• Monitor deadlines related to payments, contracts, reporting, and operational processes, and proactively follow up on pending actions;
• Support the organization of missions, meetings, workshops, and events, including administrative and financial coordination arrangements.
• Ensure procurement, contracts, and operational support
• Support procurement and contract management processes in compliance with UNDP procurement policies and procedures;
• Prepare, review, and maintain procurement, contractual, and administrative documentation, ensuring completeness and compliance with audit and operational requirements;
• Monitor procurement plans, contract implementation status, vendor documentation, and payment schedules to support timely project delivery;
• Review vendor invoices and supporting documents against contractual terms, deliverables, and approved budgets before payment processing;
• Coordinate with suppliers, service providers, consultants, and relevant stakeholders to resolve administrative and operational issues in a timely manner;
• Contribute to the preparation of terms of reference, requests for quotations, evaluation documentation, and administrative justifications related to procurement and contracting actions;
• Support asset and inventory tracking related to project implementation and ensure proper documentation and record management;
• Contribute to improving operational workflows, administrative tracking tools, and filing systems to strengthen efficiency and accountability.
• Reporting compliance, project support and facilitating knowledge management
• Contribute to the preparation of financial, operational, and administrative reports by compiling, reviewing, and validating supporting documentation and expenditure data;
• Support compliance with UNDP financial, administrative, and operational procedures through regular monitoring and verification of project records and transactions;
• Coordinate the organization and maintenance of documentation for audits, evaluations, monitoring missions, and verification exercises;
• Identify financial or administrative issues and escalate them to the supervisor with proposed corrective actions and follow-up recommendations;
• Provide administrative and operational support for implementation of annual work plans, procurement plans, and project reporting requirements;
• Support knowledge management and documentation of operational processes, lessons learned, and best practices related to project implementation;
• Ensure confidentiality, transparency, accuracy, and integrity in the management of project financial and administrative information and documentation.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangements

The Finance Analyst will report to the Project Manager, Benin Mayors Challenge.

Competencies
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.

Functional/Technical competencies
Business Management

• Working with Evidence and Data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making.

Business Management: Monitoring & Evaluation

• Ability to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively.
• Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results.
• Ability to make independent judgment of the management and results of strategies, programmes and activities based on set criteria and benchmark, keeping in mind the needs and concerns of client, current and upcoming.
• Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, concepts, methodologies, systems, processes, and tools.
• Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks.
• Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

Business Management: Communication

• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.

Business Management

• Working with Evidence and Data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making.

Finance

• Budget Management: Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets.

Finance: Accounting (General)

• Understands how regulations and professional standards in internal and external audit underpin audit work in the public services. Understands the key stages of audit work, including planning, documentation, testing and reporting.
• Ability to examine and verify accounts and records. Understands wider mechanisms for assurance and scrutiny. Understands the law and best practice relating to anti- bribery and corruption controls and the fraud risks faced by public bodies.

Finance: Financial reporting and analysis

• Understands changes in regulatory, legal and ethical frameworks and standards for financial reporting in the public sector.
• Ability to extract, evaluate financial data, derive relevant findings and present them in a meaningful and coherent manner to facilitate effective decision making and performance monitoring.
• Understands the benefits of integrated reporting, including non- financial resources such as human, social and intellectual capital, and environmental and governance performance.

Education
Required Skills and Experience

• A professional accounting qualification from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy, and/or Advanced (Master’s) University Degree in Finance and/or Accounting is required;
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree;
• Candidates with professional accounting qualifications from an internationally accredited institute of accountancy will have a distinct advantage;
• Candidates with no professional accountancy qualifications, but with degrees that major in accountancy and/or finance must complete the Finance Training and Certification Programme (FTCP), if recruited;
• Candidates satisfying the two above criteria are exempted from undertaking the UNDP Advanced Accountancy and Finance Test (AAFT);
• Candidates with MBA or master's in finance with no accountancy qualification but with relevant experience must successfully undertake the UNDP Advanced Accountancy and Finance Test (AAFT) to be eligible for shortlisting.

Experience

• Applicants with master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience.
• Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in providing financial management services, and/or managing staff and operational systems.

Desired Skills

• Experience in project/programme administration;
• Demonstrated ability to maintain organized records and filing systems;
• Experience using Microsoft Excel and other basic office applications;
• Demonstrated ability to support preparation of financial summaries and administrative reports;
• Experience working on development projects or donor-funded projects;
• Experience supporting audits, financial reporting, or procurement documentation;
• Experience and knowledge of accounting or financial management systems;
• Experience working with municipalities, public institutions, or community-based projects.