Accounting Analyst

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https:// www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd 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. CTRTA is responsible for accounts payable, fixed assets and lease accounting, quality assurance (QA) program, travel accounting, sanctions screening and SAP security oversight. It also provides strategic leadership and guidance to business units across the WBG on developing and maintaining an effective system of internal controls over these functions. The QA Program assesses the WBG Units’ compliance with administrative expense policies and procedures and recommends corrective actions as appropriate. In collaboration with the Units and stakeholders, the program monitors compliance and strengthens internal controls by building awareness of compliance trends and exceptions. It identifies opportunities to strengthen controls and simplify processes through behavioral, policy, process and system changes. It also provides a basis for management’s annual assertions regarding controls over administrative expenses. Duties and accountabilities: Quality Assurance Reviews: • Review of the WBG’s administrative and capital expense transactions to verify accuracy of records, compliance with Bank’s policies and procedures. • Assess controls relating to WBG country offices by conducting country office deep dive reviews. • Follow-up with the units on appropriate and timely submission of documentation and clarifications for review. • Support trend-based reporting through QA dashboards for unit management. Accounting: • As part of the Accounting and Reporting job stream, you will prepare trial balance reports covering administrative expense ledger accounts and provide appropriate analyses of expenses, coordinate with the TL for sign-off to the reporting units. Financial Analysis: • Identify themes, trends, and emerging risks as part of continuous monitoring activities and support the visualization, presentation of the analyses. • Perform ad hoc analytics requests. Automation and process improvements: • Participate actively in the division’s projects, such as AI/ML based reviews, centrally managed expense reviews and other automation initiatives. • Identify and contribute to the process improvement initiatives of the team.