Accounting Assistant - Travel
Current• Working with staff across five international regions, manage and process travel expense claims and related staff credit card consolidations for staff duty travel. • Calculate the overall budget for individual staff duty travel, meetings, workshops and Human Resources entitlements.• Prepare and process travel requests following organizational procedures into Travel Authorizations, calculating the Daily Subsistence Allowance in accordance with UN International Civil Service Commission rates and official exchange rates.• Maintain and manage travel funds for US Dollar and EURO accounts, including managing and disbursing travel advances and cash disbursements related to staff travel and institutional meetings. • Working with Human Resources as well as Senior Management, serve as a member of the Organization’s Travel Task Force to revise Institutional Travel Policy and implement accordingly.• Liaise with other CGIAR and UN agencies as appropriate for travel procedure updates.• Prepare and monitor invoices to external organizations with travel reimbursement agreements.• Responsible for organization and consolidation of open travel accounting system items for monthly travel statements as well as year-end closing and related reporting.• Provide annual statistics to monitor the performance of travel activity.• Liaise with internal and external auditors on annual Travel Unit audits.