Financial Management Specialist - Sydney, Australia - IFC Systems Corporation

IFC Systems Corporation
IFC Systems Corporation
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Sydney, Australia

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Financial Management Specialist

Job #:

- req27175
Organization:


  • World Bank
    Sector:
  • Financial Management
    Grade:
  • GF
    Term Duration:
  • 3 years 0 months
    Recruitment Type:
  • Local Recruitment
    Location:
  • Sydney,Australia
    Required Language(s):
  • English
    Preferred Language(s):

Closing Date:


  • 5/3/2024 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
    Description

East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) Region


EAP is a large and diverse region, ranging from Small Island States of the Pacific to the Philippines and China.

Despite substantial economic growth and poverty reduction, the EAP region faces huge development challenges.

Growth has been uneven across and within countries, institutions still need strengthening, and most countries are heavily affected by climate change.

The Bank plays a significant role on global public goods, including climate, biodiversity, water pollution, and health.

The COVID pandemic, and more recently food and energy price increases are compounding the impact of the global economic slowdown.

The World Bank Group is seen as a premier development institution in the Region, with a leadership role on analytical and advisory services as well as financing.


Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions
The Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions (EFI) Practice Group provides support to low
- and middle-income countries to build the economic and institutional foundations for inclusive and sustainable growth and, thereby, make progress towards achieving the World Bank Group's twin goals of reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity The EFI Practice Group includes the WBG Global Practices of Finance Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI); Poverty and Equity (POV); Governance (GOV); and Macroeconomics Trade and Investment (MTI).


Governance Global Practice (GP) Context

Unit Context


The Governance-Financial Management (FM) unit in EAP, is responsible for the implementation of the Bank's FM framework for Bank-financed operations, delivering high quality FM services, throughout the project cycle.

The Unit also undertakes analytical FM work and country fiduciary assessments.

The services provided by the unit include (i) fiduciary assurance; (ii) FM risk management, oversight and monitoring; (iii) quality assurance of FM services; (iv) country portfolio reviews; (v) contributions to country engagement products; (vi) supporting partner countries in enhancing their fiduciary and public financial management systems performance and capacity; (vii) supporting partner countries in developing their professional accountancy institutions, and corporate financial reporting performance (including accounting and auditing standards); (viii) supporting partner countries in developing their internal and external oversight institutions e.g Internal Audit Departments and National Audit Offices.

The unit works collaboratively with other Global Practices (GPs), regional and corporate Bank units.


Duties and Accountability


The Financial Management Specialist (FMS) will be based in Sydney, Australia, will be required to support the Bank's program in the Pacific Islands and will report to the Practice Manager of the Unit.

The FMS is responsible and accountable for operation-level FM support and monitoring FM arrangements throughout the project cycle and is expected to take a proactive role in providing advice and support to clients and for producing agile and innovative approaches to strengthening fiduciary assurance over the use of funds.


Specific duties include:
- assessing the adequacy of project financial management arrangements;
- carrying out FM-related risk assessments and proposing appropriate FM arrangements for the operation;
- providing implementation support and supervising projects financed by loans and grants;
- monitoring the implementation of risk mitigation measures and contributing inputs to corporate risk reviews as required;
- implementing Bank FM operational systems;
- reviewing unaudited interim financial reports, taking appropriate action on any issues arising from the reviews and recommending actions in case of non-compliance;
- reviewing audit reports, taking appropriate action on any issues arising from the audits and recommending actions in case on non-compliance;
- ensuring compliance with the Bank's audit and other FM requirements;
- ensuring that the project operations are carried out in accordance with sound financial management practices;
- contributing to the development and implementation of approaches to make greater use of country systems for Bank

  • Financed operations;

Selection Criteria

The position requires:

  • A highly motivated and passionate financial management professional with strong client orientation, interpersonal and integrative thinking skills.
  • A qualified professional accountant (CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CA (Chartered Accountant), ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) or equiv
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