Join the World Bank: Senior Financial Officer Position Available in the US. Apply!

Join the World Bank: Senior Financial Officer Position Available in the US. Apply!

The World Bank is looking for a Senior Financial Officer to oversee financial analysis, enhance investment strategies, and contribute to global economic development efforts. This role offers a chance to drive meaningful change worldwide.

The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. The Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Vice Presidency of the World Bank is the core unit responsible for institutional risk oversight, including establishment and monitoring adherence to risk policies and guidelines and risk assessment and reporting to the Board and executive management.  Its mission is to enable and support the institution to achieve its goals in a financially sustainable manner. This position will be in the Portfolio Risk Team.

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Responsibilities

• Contribute to/Lead the Department’s work program in the area of loan loss provisioning and credit and portfolio risk modeling and measurement,
• Contribute to/Lead the team’s responsibilities for IBRD’s Country Exposure Management Framework, including regular exposure limits update and assessing country limits reallocation requests.
• Contribute to/Lead the development of innovative risk transfer instruments
• Contribute to the Department’s work program on assessing Rating Agency Frameworks and related developments as applied to the World Bank.
• Provide inputs, including data, financial analysis and write-ups, for CROCR’s periodic reporting deliverables,
• Conduct other financial and risk-related quantitative analytics and modeling as needed, including using applied statistics and econometrics.

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Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance, Risk Management, Business Administration, Economics, or other relevant field, with a minimum of 8 years of directly relevant professional experience.
• Strong modeling, data analysis and mathematical skills demonstrated  ideally in designing/working on capital adequacy/VaR models and/or fixed income risk.
• Strong programming skills in any general-purpose programming language (i.e., C++, C#, Python, Matlab) would be viewed favorably.
• Professional designations such as CFA, FRM, etc., would be viewed favorably, 
• Enjoys working in a high-performing team with collective responsibility and a high value placed on teamwork