Finance Specialist (Supply Financing)

ACCA Careers; København; On-site; DKK 593,000 - 856,000; Part time

Job summary

UNICEF Supply Division is seeking a Finance Specialist (Supply Financing) to support financing partnerships and solutions, including mobilizing domestic resources and bridging timing gaps in government or grant disbursements. The role will coordinate day-to-day supply financing operations and donor reporting across multiple country offices.

The successful candidate will work with Ministries of Health and Finance, engage with regional teams, and contribute to procurement efficiency while

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Financial Management, Economics, Accounting, Audit or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in development finance, risk management, or related areas.
• Experience with Ministries of Health and Finance, budgeting, procurement relating to health products.
• Experience with credit facilities, revolving funds, or lending portfolios.
• Fluency in English is required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day supply financing operations.
• Support resource mobilization efforts and donor reporting.
• Engage with Ministries of Health and Finance on VII revolving fund.
• Coordinate forecast exercises with Country Offices to secure procurement planning.

Skills

Development Finance

Investment Banking

Risk Underwriting

Financial Modelling

Forecasting

Auditing

Data Processing Systems

Education

Master’s degree in Financial Management or related field

Job description

Job no: 595679

Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment

Duty Station: Copenhagen

Location: Denmark

Categories: Financial Management

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

For every child, the right to a Future

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. These supplies are critical to saving lives, supporting children’s health and education, and protecting them from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. As the UN’s largest end to end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world.

SD focuses on three result areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.

How can you make a difference?

The Finance Specialist (Supply Financing) will be based at UNICEF Supply Division, and will support the implementation of the UNICEF Supply Division’s Financing Partnerships and Solutions Strategy (which focuses on supporting governments’ mobilization of domestic resources to buy essential supplies while “bridging” timing gaps in government or grant disbursements of Ministries of Health and Finance, development partners, as well as to build new financing opportunities, partnerships and solutions to support the provision of essential supplies and accelerate results for children) related to supply financing activities with respect to other programmes / challenges, especially resource mobilization by national budgets, market dynamics, accessing financing instruments, such as the Vaccine Independence Initiative (“VII”) revolving fund.

Under the supervision of the Senior Manager, the Finance Specialist (Supply Financing) will coordinate day-to-day supply financing operations, and support resource mobilization efforts and donor reporting of the Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII), among other security pre-financing sources to support procurement efficiency; will coordinate Procurement Services forecast exercises to secure quality projections for the proper resource planning of the Division and Country Offices; will perform analytical functions and provide support to Countries in the following functional areas: 1) Country budgetary processes and country procurement forecast materialization and monitoring; 2) Working directly with Ministries of Health and Finance (or equivalent) on accessing UNICEF’s VII revolving fund 3) Engaging with Supply Division business units and Regional/Country Offices and external Partners and Donors to support supervisor’s coordination of work.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Advanced university degree (Master’s degree) in Financial Management, Economics, Accounting, Audit, Risk Management, Business Adminstraction, International Development Finance or related field is required.
• Work Experience: Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in public or private sector at national and international levels in the area of development finance, risk management, risk underwriting, investment banking, finance, public finance, health economics, accounting or auditing.
• Experience with Country Ministries of Health and Ministries of Finance, Financing, Budgeting, Procurement or Commercial Issues relating to Health Products.
• Experience working with credit facilities, revolving funds, or lending portfolios.
• Proficiency in use of data processing systems or for financial modelling and forecasting skills.Skills: Development Finance, Investment Banking, Risk Underwriting and Management, Financial Modelling and Forecasting, Auditing
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables

• Language: Fluency in French is desired. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it.

UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others