E T Consultant - Senior Finance Officer

Organization:
World Bank Group

Sector:
Finance & Accounting

Grade: EC3

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type:
Local Recruitment

Location:

Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s):
English

Closing Date: 10/7/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

The WBG Controllers Vice Presidency is responsible for all aspects of the financial reporting and internal control framework for IBRD/IDA, IFC and MIGA, and the extensive Trust Fund/Partnership portfolio of the World Bank Group (WBG) entities. It supports an appropriate fiduciary control framework and administering disbursements for WBG lending and leads the client service function for the World Bank Group’s corporate expenses.

Within Controllers, the Loan Clients Services unit (CTRCS) of the Loans and Financing Operations Department is devoted to providing “front-end” client services and related operations to business and external clients and is organized along business lines serving the regions and global practices. The Services within the area of CTRCS responsibilities fall under three categories: regional coordination, country focal point assistance, and project-level fiduciary and portfolio management.

The ETC will play an important role in disbursement related activities during preparation and implementation of a project, including but not limited to the following:

• CTRCS country focal point for an assigned country portfolio,
• Review and clear project preparation packages for new World Bank-funded projects,
• Support the disbursements-related aspects of the project implementation,
• Perform the client relationship management with the various stakeholders that CTRCS engages with,
• Innovate and provide solutions that leverage technology to improve impact and operational efficiency,
• Support and test improvements to modernize disbursement systems,
• Actively engage with stakeholders and build strong partnerships to improve effective collaboration, and,
• Perform a variety of broad responsibilities, as needed, while working as part of a global team.

As ETC you will report to a supervisor based in Washington DC.

A) Country Team Focal Point:

• Serve as focal point for internal and external client inquiries at the country level.
• Provide country-related input to the respective CTRCS Senior Regional Team Leader (TL) and the Manager to drive conversations with Country Management Units (CMUs) about country coordination and institutional initiatives within the assigned region.
• Interact with Team Task Leaders (TTLs) to follow up on financing and disbursement-related issues arising in project preparation; contact CMU and borrowers to advise on new financial products, loan instruments, and disbursement system enhancements (e.g. Funds Chain) that could benefit project preparation and facilitate resolution of portfolio disbursement bottlenecks; facilitate conversation between CMU and Ministry of Finance (MoF) on debt service options (whenever new product or service emerges).
• Participate in regular meetings for TLs/ Finance Officers (FOs)/ Finance Analysts (FNs)/Manager to share insights across countries and promote knowledge-sharing.
• Participate in country team meetings to provide advice on initiatives impacting disbursement-related issues at the portfolio level.

B) Project Preparation:

• For pipeline projects in assigned portfolio countries, provide support to task teams by reviewing project documents (Concept Notes, Appraisal Documents, Financing Agreements, etc.) and other sources of information, providing timely inputs and raising issues, which may have an impact on disbursement arrangements, or are…