(iii) Cashier Unit

Pay the cashier on the way out.

Objective 1. Implementation of the Cashier Unit's treasury activities.

At the Fund, only the staff of the Cashier Unit possess such expertise.

He designed the robot as the cashier, and the head moves, and I did the rest of it.

The Financial Services Section provides comprehensive financial services for the Fund's operations through its Payments, Accounts and Cashier units.

For obvious reasons of security, this usually has to be provided by or through the personnel in the Cashier Unit.

The Cashier Unit has begun to undertake new treasury related functions following the implementation of the new banking contract in mid 2004.

In a small unit such as the Cashier Unit, any staff member taken off day to day work has a significant impact on performance.

An additional level of staffing for the Cashier Unit was strongly recommended by the consulting group which conducted the whole office review for the Fund in 2002.

Requests are made for (a) reclassification of the post of the head of the Section, (b) creation of a business analyst post and (c) addition of staff in the three units (Cashier, Payments and Accounts).

The Administration of the UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean received from UNEP headquarters the formal designation of the Finance Assistant and the Administrative Assistant as cashier and petty cash custodian, respectively.

In paragraph 58, the Board recommended that the UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean seek from UNEP headquarters the formal designation of the Finance Assistant as cashier and the Administrative Assistant as petty cash custodian.

The Cashier Unit is responsible for (a) issuing one time and periodic payments to pension beneficiaries and for administrative expenses (b) directing and controlling operational treasury activities, cash flow and cash management and (c) maintaining bank accounts and overseeing the Fund's operational banking relationships.

Even in impersonal market exchange, we cannot help but personalize transactions, say, with the grocery store cashier who smiles and thanks us, or the store greeter whose only purpose is to make us feel cared for. This personalization draws upon regions of the brain that evolved when our trading partners were members of small kin based groups where moral violations were immediately identified and remedied.