Experience

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  United nations development programme. bratislava regional centre

  Jan 2012 - Apr 2012

  Finance associate (detailed assignment)

  • Accounting and Administrative support to Finance Unit including:preparation of PO and non-PO vouchers, APJVs and GLJEs;preparation and Follow up of Projects’ budget revisions;financial closure of projects;petty cash review and PC vouchers preparation;• Monitoring of budgets and functioning of the optimal cost-recovery system including:management and monitoring of ISS charges;monitoring of dashboard;update of selected BRC monitoring tables;follow up of the Centre’s XB credits (monitoring of credit items) Показати менше

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  United nations development programme in sudan

  Feb 2014 - Jan 2014

  Finance associate (detailed assignment)

  • Analyzing open items particularly Staff Salary advances to enable corrective actions;• Separating cases that belong to South Sudan filtering by department;• Establishing linkages between salary advance recoveries to the initial advances;• Giving support to investigations and resolutions of items on external table transactions; • Creating GLJEs necessary to reverse wrong accounting entries;• Clearing outstanding balance sheet items for prior periods based on available supporting documents;• Investigating and reversing miss posting of open items between 2004 and 2014;• Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing; Показати менше

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  Municipality of rafal (alicante)

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  Administrative assistant/programme coordinator

  • Coordinated international exchange summer projects;• Drafted documents for Municipal Committees;• Handled various administrative matters (travel arrangements, visa issues)• Assisted in drafting information leaflets for citizens;• Interpreted and translated (Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian)

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  Dnipropetrovs’k state university. international department.

  Jan 1997 - Apr 1998

  Interpreter/translator

  Correspondence, interpreting, translations

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  Eu commission tacis social policy project in ukraine

  Oct 1999 - Jan 1999

  Administrative manager/finance assistant

  • Provided day-to-day project co-ordination, facilitation to Project Team Leader and Senior Experts; • Handled various administrative matters (Travel Arrangements, visa issuance, procurement, etc.).• Maintained expense and budget reporting

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  Department for international development of the uk government (dfid). social assistance project

  Jan 2000 - Sept 2002

  Administrative manager

  • Overall project co-ordination;• Served as a liaison with senior regional authorities;• Handled procurement of goods and services (including tender documentation and contacts with bidders) and oversaw vendors;• Travel arrangements for Project staff;• Organization of Study Tours;• Organization of seminars;• Organization of meeting for the Project working group;• Was in charge of a day-to-day budget and finance management;• Weekly accounts reporting

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  United nations development programme in ukraine

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2014

  • Provision of procurement services, including preparation of ICs, RFQs, documents, receipt of quotations, bids or proposals, their preliminary evaluation;• Providing consultation and support on a variety of procurement issues to staff, projects and UN Agencies during all stages of the procurement cycle; • Preparation of Purchase orders and contracts in and outside ERP (Atlas); • Vendor creation and maintenance in Atlas; • Implementation of the internal control system which ensures that Purchase Orders are duly prepared and dispatched;• Timely corrective actions on POs with budget check errors and other problems;• Provision of information for preparation of cost-recovery bills in Atlas for the procurement services provided by UNDP to UNDP Projects and other UN Agencies;• Maintenance of the electronic filing system and IC (Individual Consultants) roster in the procurement Unit;• Vendor Management;• Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing Показати менше • Provision of finance services, including bank payments, managing the Country Office cash operations; • Acting as CO cashier for cash disbursements made on site;• Performing daily cash check-up, maintaining cash books and cash ledgers;• calculation and payment of salaries, benefits, allowances, travel related expenses to the projects, office and UN Agencies staff. • ATLAS financial system operations, including preparation of regular vouchers; • Making budget check and record of all duly approved vouchers and investigating each case with budget error status; • preparation of PO-based vouchers, ensuring they fully matched, budget checked & posted to GL; • Pay Cycle Process;• Monitoring project budgets balances (both management and development projects), budgetary status and delivery status; • Control all signed cost-sharing agreements (pending items) in Atlas Accounts Receivable module, recording deposits in Atlas and apply them to the pending item concerned; • Applying all deposits received to the respective projects, funds, accounts using Regular deposits & Direct Journal Atlas functionalities; • Performing bank reconciliation of bank accounts, reporting and investigation any differences or inconsistencies found; • Managing of billing (cost-recovery) process;• VAT reimbursement; • Reviewing financial, travel and petty cash reports from UNDP funded and UNDP administered projects; • Providing finance and accounting support to UNDP projects: preparing and sending specific Atlas system reports, compiling and analyzing data;• Maintenance of ERP/Atlas project management module (formulating new proposals, distributing funds between budget accounts, approving proposals, generating awards, sending new projects to the Commitment Control, managing projects Annual Work Plans, monitoring existing and new budgets versus respective ASL, making budget revisions, checking project delivery rates, budget balance status, etc.) Показати менше

  • Operations Assistant (Procurement)

    Jun 2011 - Jan 2014

  • Operations Assistant (Finance)

    Jan 2005 - Jun 2011
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  United nations office for south-south cooperation (unossc)

  Apr 2015 - now

  International consultant on operations

  - Budget monitoring and preparation of financial reports in the framework of UNOSSC- IFAD joint initiative as well as other partnership initiatives; preparation of vouchers and payments processing; controlling and monitoring payments, fund status, expenditures- Provide on demand assistance in written communication and drafting, coordination of work planning and progress updates from team members, organization of Skype calls and internal meetings, ensure quality preparation of meetings and mission reports- Provide any other work inputs as may be required in the framework of provision of technical & organizational services in financial monitoring, procurement and HR services- Administration of Individual Contracts (conduct of interviews when required, participation in the interview panels, preparation and review of Terms of References, preparation of the Selection Minutes and evaluation grids, Note to files for services below USD 5K, Performance Evaluations, certifications of payments); - Monitoring of staff contracts and payments, monitoring and update of staffing table, - Provide support in the procurement of products and services under the UNOSSC - IFAD joint initiative as well as other partnership initiatives, preparation of e-requisitions and POs, preparation of minutes of selection, other procurement related issues when required- Monitor and implementation of procurement contracts, provide on-demand organizational support in monitoring of the implementation of various work assignments on a quarterly basis – ensuring that all the planned outputs are covered- Organization of project staff travels and travel reporting, preparation of travel authorizations and travel claim reports- Organization of travels for experts and meeting participants during the project event Показати менше

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  United nations development programme in afghanistan

  - Jan 2014

  Finance specialist (detailed assignment)

  • Effective supervision and coordination of the activities of Bank Reconciliation Task Force, reporting on the weekly basis;• Review of unreconciled AP transactions, reconciled external items, unreconciled AR, cancelled payments and GP adjustments for the period identified in the work plan developed for the exercise;• Review and identify errors, mistakes in Bank to Book Reconciliation (B2B) for SCB and ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken; • Closure of SCB (USD and AFN) bank accounts after B2B completed; • Contribution to the development of Standard Operations Procedures (SOPs) to streamline monthly B2B;• Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing Показати менше

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  Unops

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  Project manager
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  Undp in ukraine. human development policy project

  Oct 2002 - Jan 2004

  Administrative/finance assistant

  • Project logistics; • Maintenance of Inventory Ledger of the Project equipment; • Maintenance of personnel attendance record cards;• Organization of expert missions and travel arrangements for project staff;• Management off all financial matters, • Procurement tenders and contractual arrangements for project;• Monthly accounting records maintenance;• Project Petty Cash custodian and PC reporting to UNDP Country Office;• Assisted UNDP CO Business Centre

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  Undp ukraine

  Nov 2014 - Apr 2015

  Procurement support consultant

  - Administration of Individual Contracts (ICs): conduct of interviews, member of interview panels; - preparation, review and clearance of Terms of References, preparation of the Selection Minutes and evaluation grids, preparation of note to files for services below USD 5K, Performance Evaluations, timely payments monitoring according to the contract- providing advice and guidance on specific and general administrative issues- Providing consultation and support on a variety of procurement issues to staff, projects and UN Agencies during all stages of the recruiting cycle; making proposals to resolve Procurement specific issues;- Support to organization of procurement processes including preparation of RFQs, ITBs or RFPs documents, receipt of quotations, bids or proposals, their preliminary evaluation- Vendor search, market research and identification of suppliers in order to expand the competition and ensure best value-for-money principle is being followed- Preparation of Purchase orders and contracts in and outside Atlas, preparation of Recurring Purchase orders for contracting of services, vendor creation in Atlas, maintenance of the filing system in the procurement Unit. - Implementation of the internal control system which ensures that Purchase orders are duly prepared and dispatched. Timely corrective actions on POs with budget check errors and other problems- Provision of information for preparation of cost-recovery bills in Atlas for the procurement services provided by UNDP to other Agencies - Contribution to the elaboration of internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in Procurement management Показати менше