Senior Administrative and Financial Officer
UNIDO/ United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months
-Human Resource Management: Effectively coordinate actions relative to the administration of human resource activities, ensuring consistency in the application of UN rules and procedures.
-Provide information on conditions of service, duties and responsibilities, and privileges and entitlements under the Staff Rules and Regulations.
-Budget and Finance: Support the head of the UNIT in the preparation and implementation of the work program, ensuring that financial resources are utilized to implement activities in accordance with the Mission Budget and allotments issued.
-Handling the accounting and financial systems and ensure they are consistent with UN policy and practice.
-Provide guidance on financial administration and management information issues and practices to colleagues. Provide guidance and leadership to more junior staff.
-General Administration: Oversee work related to procurement, billing and receipt of income from various services, operational travel programme, procurement monitoring and evaluation of vendor contracts/payment to vendors and individual contractors for services. Review adequacy of space requirements. Oversee the identification of office technology needs and maintenance of equipment, software and systems.
-Development of database systems, keeping track of all activities related to the promotion of investment opportunities securing the consistency of information & data stored in INFOBASE.
-Organizing Workshops, Seminars and recently was the Co-ordinator for the Investment & Trade Forum (Growing Business in Jordan) in the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center / Dead Sea - Jordan held on 18 June 2006. Preparing Promotional Materials and Activities.
-Assisting the Entrepreneurship Development Programme Consultant in organising and budgeting EDP.
-Liaising in the Process of handling over the EDP program to King Abdullah II Fund for Development
-Perform other related work as required.
-Joined the company on 1 March 1995 as administrative assistant to the Legal, Tax & Audit Department. Responsibilities covered all aspects of administrative duties required by the department.
-Appointed as a member of the audit team in 1998 and started performing specific audit assignments in addition to main administrative duties.
-In January 1999, was given full responsibility for the audit of personnel in the company. This involves auditing the contracts of employments, salaries, tax and social security contribution, indemnities etc. at the corporate office and used to travel annually with the audit team to Lebanon and Egypt, the largest two offices of the group, to perform the above duties.
-Promoted in January 2000 to the position of Executive Administrative officer for the department and assistant to the Head of Legal, Tax & Audit Department. Main duties in this position is to assist the Head of Department in his dealings with the legal and tax affairs of the group worldwide. The major achievement in this position was the conversion of all the manual data of the legal and tax records for the whole group into a computerised system.
-Performing various duties as related to the functionality of the department. This includes dealing with different types of bank accounts, safe deposits, time deposits, current deposits, etc.
-Issuing all types of remittances.
-Foreign exchange.
-Receiving and answer telephone inquiries from customers and internal staff regarding status of accounts, bank statements, charges, interests, etc.
-Maintain confidentiality of customer account information.
Grade (B+) In addition to my extensive experience in computer software and hardware and after converting several paper documented systems, I have decided to join this Masters Degree Programme “Computer Based Information System”. The course has enabled me to develop my knowledge, skills and abilities that are required in the ever-expanding information technology market. I became more experienced in the computer based information system solutions and could be more involved in any or all parts of such systems’ life cycles: specifications, design, implementation, maintenance and eventual retirement. The course has helped me to apply new knowledge, skills and abilities to my existing career experience This programme is of interest to graduates from all non-computing disciplines who wish to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of computing. The existing programme is of proven high quality that is academically challenging and available world-wide in flexible operating modes. It already operates successfully in a number of centres around the world providing quality I.T. development skills across a wide range of societies and economies.
Grade was 71 out of 100 / Good