Senior Financial Officer

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. 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, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org The World Bank Group Treasury Are you inspired by a global mission to end poverty? Do you want to build a career in finance with a global impact? The World Bank Group Treasury is one of the few places where you can be on the leading edge of finance as it sits at the only nexus of finance, innovation, and international development. We manage the institution's finances to enable all World Bank operations and lending. Departments Teams The World Bank Group Treasury has five departments and a compliance and controls team. Learn more about our organization: https://treasury.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/treasury/about/what-we-do . Poverty has no borders, and neither does excellence. With employees based in Washington, Chennai, Paris, Singapore, Sofia, London, and Tokyo, the World Bank Group Treasury represents over 50 nationalities, and our leadership team hails from all regions of the world . We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer. We have a dedicated and committed workforce and do not discriminate based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Learn more about Treasury’s greatest strength: its diverse and dedicated staff. Partnerships and Advisory Department The World Bank Group Treasury Partnerships Advisory Department serves as the institutional focal point for World Bank Group Treasury engagements with external public-sector asset management clients, including members of the Reserve Advisory Management Partnership (RAMP). As a trusted partner to public asset managers worldwide, the Department designs and delivers capacity building and advisory services tailored to the needs of central banks, international financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, public pension funds, and other public institutions. A significant share of the Department’s work is delivered through RAMP, the World Bank Group’s flagship platform for public asset management. Established in 2001, RAMP supports a global network of nearly 100 public asset management institutions that collectively oversee more than US$2 trillion in assets. To date, RAMP has advised over 100 public institutions and trained more than 10,000 public-sector professionals, advancing sound public asset management practices. Drawing on the World Bank Group’s expertise, RAMP helps central banks strengthen resilience to economic shocks, enables sovereign wealth funds to safeguard intergenerational wealth, and supports public pension funds in meeting long-term obligations. Advisory and Knowledge The team is responsible for delivering advisory, training, research, and capacity-building solutions to World Bank Group Treasury clients, including RAMP members. The team manages a comprehensive training program, such as workshops, webinars, internships, and third-party training, for a global network of public asset managers. The team publishes applied research that advances clients and strengthens the public investor community. It also leads the development of new investment products and quantitative solutions with relevant World Bank Group teams. Duties and Accountabilities: The Senior Financial Officer (GG) reports to the Manager of the TREPK unit. They will be expected to undertake the following roles and contribute to other Treasury initiatives as needed. 1. Provide technical advisory through missions, ad-hoc consultations, workshops, conferences, and webinars, on asset management information technology (financial asset management systems), and other areas of expertise relevant to the official sector asset management (e.g., central banks, public pension and sovereign wealth funds). 2. Provide advisory on the adoption of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics within financial asset management functions, including governance, risk management, data foundations, and institutional readiness, aligned with emerging regulatory expectations and global practices. 3. Lead and contribute to assessments of front-to-back asset management systems, including trading, risk management, payments, settlements, accounting, and reporting systems, and contribute to recommendations aligned with industry standards and sound control frameworks. 4. Provide advisory input across the systems procurement lifecycle, including requirements definition, RFIs, RFPs, evaluation methodologies, proof-of-solution activities, and implementation readiness, ensuring transparency and alignment with client governance and budgetary processes. 5. Provide guidance on data architecture and foundations, including data quality, system integration, and effective front-to-back data flows. 6. Produce knowledge and research content relevant to Trust Funds, RAMP members and other clients, including applied research papers/notes with emphasis on public asset management. 7. Provide technical briefings to senior management, investment committees, and boards of client institutions on subjects related to the area of expertise. 8. Contribute to developing new investment products in coordination with TREAP, TREAM, and other relevant units in Treasury. 9. Contribute to the collaboration and cooperation across the department and VPU, across the World Bank Group, with clients, other development partners, research centers, and industry experts. 10. Contribute to the relationships with clients, and interact with World Bank Group Finance Partners and other business units (e.g., Procurement, Legal, ITS) to support the delivery of the work program. 11. Contribute to the expansion of outreach activities by helping enhance the RAMP program's communication, marketing, and branding. 12. Contribute to additional projects as needed within the department.