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1. Finance Analyst

WFACS is currently seeking a highly motivated Finance Analyst (FN) for its team in Nairobi, Kenya.

How your contributions will help us achieve our goals

The Finance Analyst plays an important role in disbursement related activities during implementation of a project. You will collaborate with Finance Officer(s) in Nairobi and other locations to support Operations staff and external Borrowers. You will also perform a variety of broad responsibilities of the division, including working on diverse range of disbursement related issues and providing solutions and working on system design.  

As a Finance Analyst, you will report to the Regional Center Team Leader.

What you will do?

•  Disbursement transactions processing: Act as the country focal point for assigned countries in disbursement related aspects in collaboration with the country Finance Officer, at country level. Perform transaction processing including release of disbursements, as appropriate. Promptly liaise with clients to resolve any potential issues or exceptions noted in the processing of transactions.

•  Project Restructuring and preparation of certain Trust Funds: Manage project preparation, as assigned by the Finance Officers for low-risk Trust Funds and review restructuring packages.

•  Portfolio management: Monitor inactive Project Designated Accounts, engage in portfolio management activities, system updates and liaise with clients to ensure that Designated Accounts balances are promptly documented or refunded for orderly loan closure.

•  Training and Capacity building: Evaluate the results of both the reviews of transactions and the portfolio management work to identify areas where borrowers have capacity constraints and provide capacity-building to clients.

•  System and related tasks: Provide support on planning the development of system and enhancement tasks, upgrades to applications and new systems. Perform testing related to enhancement tasks, upgrades to applications. Preparation of disbursement and analytical reports and handle other tasks that may be assigned by the WFACS Team Lead and management.

Selection Criteria

What you will bring:

Education:

•  Professional accounting qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA or an equivalent professional accounting qualification) preferred.

•  A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a relevant discipline.

•  Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (for example finance, accounting etc.) is a plus.

Experience:

•  Minimum of three years of relevant work experience.

•  Experience with a financial institution or an accounting firm is a plus. 

•  Big Four or equivalent public accounting experience would be advantageous.

Language:

The ideal candidate should have advanced fluency in both English and French, with the ability to clearly communicate in both written and spoken forms and to conduct meetings in these two languages. Proficiency level in these two languages will be tested during the recruitment process.

Knowledge and Skills:

•  Relevant knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), internal controls and financial management. 

•  Knowledge and application of the Bank’s Operational Policies and Procedures and how they relate to disbursements and loan portfolio management.

•  Ability to exercise professional judgment and appropriately interpret and apply operational policies, as they relate to disbursements and loan portfolio management.

•  Willingness to travel on mission and short-term assignments.

•  Strong quantitative skills with superior attention to detail and numerical accuracy.

•  Ability to manage complex tasks, deal with rapidly shifting priorities, provide professional support to senior staff and deliver against ambitious deadlines.

•  Demonstrates good understanding of risks and internal control procedures pertaining to various activities in own functional areas.

•  Strong client focus including good interpersonal, diplomatic and team building skills required for building and maintaining collaborative relationships.

Abilities:

•  Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain and express views/opinions clearly and confidently.

•  Ability to deal sensitively in a multi-cultural environment and build effective working relations with clients and colleagues.

•  Willingness to work in different time zones – Given that the division is co-located in multiple cities in different time zones and borrowers are in different countries, candidates must be willing to work in different time zones especially the US EST time zone on an ‘as-needed’ basis.

2. Investment Officer/Operations Officer East and Southern Africa

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

Regional portfolio delivery and business development 

•  The Program Officer is expected to deliver client projects and manage client relationships across the sub-region.

•  Portfolio: Manage the delivery of existing portfolio projects in the E&SA region, ensuring provision of high-quality services to internal (industry/regional) and external clients and strong internal project governance.

•  Accelerate Opportunities to include Gender and Inclusion Solutions: help sub-regional and industry leadership to identify and to embed gender and economic inclusion solutions in their existing and pipeline investment and advisory projects by supporting the screening of project pipeline and identifying opportunities. Work on implementing the defined gender solutions.  

•  New Flagship Initiatives and Country Programs: Support in collaboration with IFC Industry teams the design and delivery of coordinated, country-level programs in E&SA that address gender barriers and deliver measurable gender outcomes.

•  Manage the selection and performance of staff and consultants reporting to/assigned to the sub regional program to effectively deliver on program goals.

Sub-Regional strategy, communications and partnerships:  

•  Support IFC sub-regional and country management in E&CA on gender issues. 

•  Coordinate and provide IFC sub-regional regional and country management in E&CA consistent inputs in sub-regional, country, and industry/sector projects, programs and strategies.

•  Support the sub-regional communications team in E&CA and country management in E&CA on gender and economic inclusion topics externally, such as at regional events, with partners, and in the media.

Selection Criteria

The candidate should be a seasoned candidate with in-depth experience working with the private sector and across institutional structures to deliver impactful solutions. S/he routinely leads staff, initiatives, programs, projects, and integrates the work of others (often multi-disciplinary). S/he confidently delivers quality output and can work and inspire others with a sense of urgency. S/he can proficiently interact with companies’ senior management, development partners and communicate with senior government counterparts and other organizations with confidence on the topic at hand.

Minimum requirements

•  Master’s degree in economics, finance, business, or other relevant discipline required.

• At least eight years of professional experience in private sector development in emerging markets (required) with decision-making responsibility, ideally with a focus on gender and inclusion.

•  Experience in structuring investment and advisory projects, including results frameworks to capture gender / inclusion outcomes and impacts.

•  Broad experience across gender and economic inclusion topics and the demonstrated ability to engage with credibility and confidence. 

•  Ability to self-manage, multitask, and work under time constraints.

•  Successful record of managing staff/consultants/temporaries in a project, monitoring project issues and tasks, meeting deadlines and setting priorities.

•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, sound business judgment to identify issues, and present creative and practical solutions.

•  Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills in English, including strong ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions. Fluency in another language widely spoken in the sub-region such as Portuguese and Swahili is a plus. 

•  Demonstrated commitment to IFC core values, including excellence, mutual respect, collegiality, teamwork, diversity and inclusiveness, integrity, innovation, transparency, and accountability.

3. Integrity Counsel – East Africa

Description

Who We Are

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is a member of the Word Bank Group (WBG) and focuses on financing private sector investments in emerging markets. IFC:

•  Works with 2,000 businesses worldwide to create opportunity where it is needed most. 

•  Commits about 400 new investment projects per year across all industry sectors – including infrastructure, manufacturing, telecommunications, venture, financial institutions and funds – and across all geographies of the world, taking both debt and equity positions and providing advisory services to support development.

•  Has offices in over 100 countries and approximately 800 staff in Africa

•  In FY24, achieved its highest-ever volume in history, with total commitments exceeding $56 billion.

Africa is a priority region for IFC. IFC has invested more than $60 billion in African businesses and financial institutions. In FY24 alone, we committed $4.7 billion in long term financing in Africa in IFC’s own account. 

What We Do

IFC’s Business Integrity Risk Division at the Institutional Risk and Governance (CRG) Department supports IFC’s business teams by helping to mitigate certain risks that may occur in IFC financings and advisory projects. One of these is “integrity risk” – corruption, fraud, economic sanctions, litigation, criminal activity/history, politically exposed persons, opaque ownership structures, etc. – any of which can affect the integrity of an IFC project, or adversely impact IFC’s reputation as the preeminent international organization operating in the private sector. 

What You’ll Be

•  An Integrity Counsel focusing on the East Africa regions

•  A strategic partner to business teams (investment and advisory)

•  A visible, vocal and influential champion for the proper management of integrity issues

•  Reporting to the Principal Counsel – Head, IDD/AML 

What You’ll Do

You’ll advise business teams with an independent voice on all core aspects of integrity risks as they impact IFC’s clients, partners, transactions and new products/initiatives in the above region, to include: 

•  Evaluating integrity and reputational risks, making recommendations, and providing solutions to mitigate risk  

•  Employing knowledge, expertise, and sound judgment to address IFC’s unique integrity risk profile

•  Developing expertise in regional IDD issues across all industries in which IFC works

•  Demonstrating expertise related to the East Africa region 

•  Drafting disclosures for Board papers

•  Assisting with crisis management in portfolio projects

You’ll provide legal advice to business teams and management on integrity-related matters in transactions, new products/initiatives, and IFC operations generally, including on the following subjects:

•  International and national anti-corruption/bribery laws and regulations (e.g., FCPA, UK Bribery Act, etc.)

•  Other integrity-related laws/regulations and legal issues that arise in IFC business

•  Economic sanctions (such as the UN, EU, UK, and US regimes) and other international trade sanctions and export controls

•  Crisis management and legal advice related to significant integrity legal matters, including potential or actual litigation or involving complex legal issues

•  The legal workings of the WBG Integrity Vice-Presidency (INT) and WBG Sanctions System

You’ll also provide legal advice to business teams and management on integrity-related contractual provisions, to include:

•  Reviewing current integrity-related provisions in IFC legal agreements

•  Drafting new integrity-related provisions in IFC legal agreements and bespoke legal provisions in IFC financing documents

•  Negotiating with clients to build out contractual protections on integrity-related matters

•  Advising on integrity-related provisions for legal documentation relating to new products/initiatives

•  Drafting disclosures for Board papers

You’ll support the work of the Business Integrity Risk Division by:

•  Assisting with corporate initiatives and working groups, particularly focused on Fragile and Conflict States (FCS), to identify possible integrity risk concerns and solutions and to enhance CRG’s delivery of services  

•  Developing and executing training plans for client departments and IFC Management to educate and raise awareness on integrity risk issues

•  Liaising with other World Bank Group entities, multilateral development banks, due diligence firms and other external stakeholders

•  Presenting on integrity matters in conferences and meetings  

•  Working on special projects and/or other initiatives in support of the division’s work plan

Selection Criteria

What You’ll Need

•  Juris Doctorate (JD), Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or equivalent

•  At least 8 years of working experience providing advice on international business transactions, project finance, investment funds, or litigation including experience advising on business integrity-related matters (such as anti-corruption laws, AML/CFT, economic sanctions, etc.)

•  Law firm experience, is a plus

•  Prior experience working in East Africa or similar regions, with a deep understanding of the local business environment and regulatory landscape.

•  Proven track record in handling crisis situations, particularly those involving integrity and reputational risks.

•  Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions to complex integrity and compliance challenges.

•  Strong working knowledge in supporting the origination, design, implementation, management, oversight, and monitoring of investment projects, a plus.

•  Strong understanding of international best practices and global trends in integrity management; good knowledge of regional trends in Eastern Africa.

•  Ability to synthetize complex information and make concrete strategic and tactical recommendations.

•  Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrating strong teamwork and collaboration, with a demonstrated track record as a team member on complex projects and programs.

•  Ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, and credibly represent IFC with clients and stakeholders, including at the senior management level, in both the public and private sectors.

•  Strong client relationship management skills, including the ability to develop and maintain mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships with senior management and ensure timely and appropriate follow-up.

•  Strong organizational skills, with an ability to work under time pressure, in unstructured situations, and in case of unexpected events; agility to respond to shifts in client priorities while ensuring delivery.

•  Strong sense of accountability and capacity to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary environment.

•  Excellent written and oral communication in English and another major language are required.

And Tackling All of the Above With   

•  Highly developed technical skills with solid judgment

•  Ability to work independently and demonstrate sound judgment on what to escalate  

•  Clear, concise, and cogent writing skills and ability to provide concrete recommendations

•  Ability to build effective client relationships 

•  Digital dexterity

•  Genuine commitment to sharing knowledge and expertise

•  Diplomacy and ability to work with individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds

•  Highly personal integrity, strong values, and ethics

Method of Application

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