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 the Deputy 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.
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This position is located in the Financial Services and Compliance Monitoring Pillar, Cashier Service Line at the RSCE. The Finance Assistant reports to the Service Line Manager .

Responsibilities
Within the delegated authority, the Finance Assistant will carry out the following duties:
• Releasing of all commercial vendors or services payments for all RSCE Client Missions House banks
• Assists in the development of the Service Line’s annual budget, particularly with respect to the establishment of major resourcing priorities, and preparing cost estimates and budget proposals, in line with the Service Line’s resourcing requirements. Assists in the review, analysis and revision of data with respect to the finalization of the budget proposals as well as Result Based Budgeting inputs;
• Releasing payments of staff members’ entitlements including claims, danger pay, daily subsistence allowance, mission subsistence allowance for Government Provided Personnel, Civilian Police and Staff Officers, volunteer living allowance and any other allowances for payments in conformity and adherence to applicable United Nations policies e.g., staff rules, financial regulations and rules, ST/AI issuances or practices, IPSAS policy framework etc.;
• Provides advice, financial interpretations, adaptations 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 Line Manager;
• Reviewing Business Partner maintenance request for both Vendors and, Staff members and third parties and following up to obtain missing documentation; Maintains a record of pending issues, updating case files weekly; Responses to queries from Vendors, Procurement, SAU, R&I, etc.; Assists in measuring performance against established KPI’s;
• 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.
• Releasing payroll for all categories of staff and non-payroll related payments after a thorough review, verification and reconciliation and report preparation