Finance Associate

About this role

UN Women is recruiting a Finance Associate for its Zanzibar Office to manage financial services and administrative processes for the office and the Ending Violence against Women and Girls portfolio. The post-holder will review and verify transactions, ensure supporting documents and accounting fields are complete, monitor finance dashboards and exception reports, and follow up audit recommendations. They will formulate and administer budgets, control allotments, track expenditure, prepare cost-recovery bills, create projects in Quantum, process budget revisions, and maintain internal expenditure controls. Additional duties include preparing vouchers and payroll, monitoring implementing partner FACE forms under HACT, clearing advances and aged items, supporting month-end and year-end closure, preparing VAT reimbursement claims, managing petty cash, and providing financial arrangements for meetings and field activities in Unguja and Pemba.

The Finance Associate also supports resource mobilization documentation and trains implementing partners on financial reporting and HACT requirements. Candidates must have completed secondary education and at least six years of progressively responsible finance experience, along with strong computer skills, spreadsheets, databases, and web-based management systems. Fluency in English and Kiswahili is required, and successful completion of the UN Women Accounting and Finance Test is mandatory. Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in finance or accounting, a professional accountancy qualification such as CPA(T), ACCA or CIMA, NBAA registration, CIPS certification, experience with Oracle Cloud Quantum and PRISM, UN or international NGO finance experience, donor-funded project financial management, and knowledge of Zanzibar tax and banking procedures.

The position is a full-time NPSA 6 contract based in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The Finance Associate reports to the Program Specialist, EVAWG, and Head of the Zanzibar Office, with overall guidance from the Operations Manager, and works with programme, operations, partner, Regional Office and Headquarters teams. The role supports the European Union-funded project on ending violence against women and advancing women's leadership. Applications close on 6 November 2026.