National Finance Officer

Reference Number: JR115292

Reports to: Head of Support Services

Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Application Deadline: 2025-08-31

About WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves. To learn more about WFP, visit our website: https://www.wfp.org and follow us on social media.

Why Join WFP?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

The Role

To support the stewardship of WFP’s resources, monitoring budgets, forecasting, reporting on key data and providing basic administrative and human resource functions that enable effective management of funds, and ensure assistance to beneficiaries is undertaken in the most efficient and effective way possible.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain awareness of corporate finance and resource management strategies.
• Contribute towards the development of country-specific plans and processes.
• Report on key data for financial status and outcomes of projects.
• Monitor budgets, and carry out forecasting for new and ongoing projects.
• Perform bank reconciliations, disbursements, clearance of receivables, overall cash management and monthly financial closures.
• Deliver core administrative services, working with contractors.
• Undertake basic human resource functions related to staff benefits, recruitment of local staff, and training.
• Collate data and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting.
• Track and collate data to support others to improve policies, systems and procedures.
• Contribute to the delivery of financial controls and insight into WFP performance.
• Guide and supervise more junior staff.
• Represent unit/CO at internal meetings, external meetings and events.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices.
• Other as required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Education: Advanced University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields, or First University degree in the same subject(s) with additional years of related work experience plus membership in an international recognized professional accountancy body such as Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Institute of Certified Public Accounts (ICPA) or equivalent.
• Language: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

Desired Experiences

• Has performed basic financial analyses at a national and/or operational level.
• Has experience managing financial transactions.

Note: Please refer to the full job description for complete details and application instructions.