Senior IT Officer, Business Solutions II Job #: req33928 Organization: World Bank Sector: Information Technology Grade: GG Term Duration:ย 4 years 0 months Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment Location: Washington, DC,United States Required Language(s): English Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 8/22/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Description
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
ITS Vice Presidency Context:
The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w
Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity in a sustainable manner by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 130 client countries. ITS services range from: establishing the infrastructure to reach and connect staff and development stakeholders; providing the devices and agile technology and information applications to facilitate the science of delivery through decentralized services; creating and maintaining tools to integrate information across the World Bank Group, the clients we serve and the countries where we operate; and delivering the computing power staff need to analyze development challenges and identify solutions. The ITS business model combines dedicated business solutions centers that provide services tailored to specific World Bank Group business needs and shared services that provide infrastructure, applications and platforms for the entire Group. ITS is one of three VPUs that have been brought together as the World Bank Group Integrated Services (WBGIS), to provide enhanced corporate core services and enable the institution to operate as one strategic and coordinated entity.
As a unit within Finance ITSFI, ITSTR provides state-of-art information and technology applications to support the operations of the World Bank Group Treasury. Functions provided ensure that the systems meet the business needs of users and external clients to manage business processes for the World Bank group.
This position will provide support for WBG Treasury cash management operations.
This position reports to the Manager, ITSTR
Duties and Accountabilities
Independent contributor IT professional that participates in technical design, development and implementation of application systems.
- Participate in the feasibility analysis for new systems/application upgrades for Treasury operations business lines.
- Lead the implementation of new products, markets, and business-related technology solutions.
- Interfaces with business analysts, project managers, and/or clients to clarify requirements. Develops technical specifications.
- Oversee the management systems for cash flows, including payments, receipts, foreign exchange, and cash management needs.
- Ensure the reconciliation, investigation, and cash accounting for the World Bankโs cash flows, which total over $10 trillion annually
- Manage application support for all bank account relationships, routing details, and settlement instructions.
- Liaison with the business users to support funding, investment, and asset and liability management portfolios for World Bank Group entities.
- Strong understanding of financial markets and instruments, including bonds, swaps, repos, deposits, and exchange-traded derivatives.
- Expertise in cash management, asset servicing, and financial technology.
- Participates in systems integration efforts, executing as needed to integrate new applications into the installed base.
- Coordinate the efficient internal administration of World Bank Treasuryโs Information Technology infrastructure.
- Tests own work leads to peer reviews and contributes to the development of test plans and participates in post-implementation reviews.
- Integrate cash management systems with all World Bank Group teams and systems that originate or receive cash flows.
-ย Provides daily operational support for production systems including providing on-call support.
- Writes system documentation for elaboration of user stories, use cases, review test cases and provide guidance for test case automations.
- Participates in user training as appropriate, on new or revised systems/applications.
- Establishes systems to monitor the operating efficiency of existing application systems and provides (or arranges for) proactive maintenance.
- Support financial accounting, investment performance measurement, and investment guideline compliance monitoring.
- Participate in systems design, working within an established framework. Typically provides directions to a team of staff and contractors in their area of expertise and may be responsible for managing the performance of team members.
- Provides business and solutions guidance to mentor team members in Cash functions.
PLUS:
* Manage and Ability to manage complex banking operations and integrate systems across multiple teams
* Strong understanding of financial markets and instruments, including bonds, swaps, repos, deposits, and exchange-traded derivatives.
* Strong understanding of WBG cash and payments processing requirements and operations, as well knowledge of World Bank Treasuryโs asset management and capital markets business and activities.
* Liaise with service providers and product vendors to deliver IT services.
* Successfully manages large and/or complex projects, processes or services that have impact across multiple areas of the organization, such as across multiple functions, processes, services, etc.
* Contributes subject matter expertise and serves as a technical resource for other professionals in their field.
* Leadership skills to guide teams in implementing innovative solutions and managing large-scale financial operations.
Selection Criteria
* Masterโs degree or bachelorโs degree with a minimum of 7 yearsโ relevant experience.
* Previous experience with cash management systems is mandatory.
Required Competencies:
- Client Understanding and Advising - Looks at issues from the clientโs perspective and advocates for clients within own area so others to focus on meeting client needs.
- Learning Orientation - Stays abreast of new trends and developments in own specialty area, the broader industry, and experiments with new approaches or emerging technological solutions to current business needs.
- Broad Business Thinking - Maintains an in-depth understanding of the long-term implications of decisions both for related areas within the VPU and the clientโs business. Involves key players in identifying operating needs, issues and immediate solutions.
- Business Function Knowledge - Proposes technical plans that are aligned with business objectives and technical requirements.
- Business Process Knowledge - Maps full business processes and designs operational process flow.
- Business Requirements Analysis - Reviews customer business requirements and determines where support is needed relative to existing technical systems design.
- Project Management (ITS) - Prepares and executes an entire project plan including dependencies.
- Systems Thinking - Researches the critical and underlying relationships between primary business, technology and systems platforms.
- Lead and Innovate - Develops innovative solutions.
- Deliver Results for Clients - Proactively addresses clients stated and unstated needs.
- Collaborate within Teams and Across Boundaries - Collaborates across boundaries, gives your own perspective and willingly receives diverse perspectives.
- Create, Apply and Share Knowledge - Applies knowledge across WBG to strengthen solutions for internal and/or external clients.
- Make Smart Decisions - Interprets a wide range of information and pushes to move forward.
- Experience with cash management applications is mandatory.
- Strong business domain expertise is a plus.
WBG Culture Attributes:
1. Sense of Urgency โ Anticipating and quickly reacting to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
2. Thoughtful Risk Taking โ Taking informed and thoughtful risks and making courageous decisions to push boundaries for greater impact.
3. Empowerment and Accountability โ Engaging with others in an empowered and accountable manner for impactful results.
World Bank Group Core Competencies
The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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