Building relationships and partnerships - Builds and maintains effective working relationships
Communicating and negotiating - Communicates effectively; creates understanding between self and others
Demonstrating leadership - Personal leadership and attitude to change
Focusing on clients - Focuses on clients
Learning, sharing knowledge and innovating - Continuously seeks to learn, shares knowledge & innovates
Managing performance and developing staff -
Managing time, resources and information - Manages own time, information and resources effectively
Problem-solving and decision-making - Demonstrates sound problem-solving and decision-making ability
Strategic thinking and organizational development - Personal influence
Team working - Contributes effectively to the team
Level - Advanced university degree from an accredited institution in a technically relevant area.
Degree must be an accredited institution listed on https://www.whed.net/home.php.
The advanced university degree may be substituted by a first university degree and at least four (4) additional years of relevant professional experience over and above the minimum number of years of experience
Areas - finance, accounting, payments or other job related field.
Experience:
At least two (2) years of progressively relevant professional experience in a similar position, preferably in the United Nations or an international financial institution, or another multi-cultural organization or a national organization providing support on a global scope.
Two years- experience in international payments and/or post trading back-office operations. In-depth knowledge of payment and accounting software systems (e.g. Peoplesoft, SWIFT), particularly in liquidity management, payment execution, investment settlement solutions and workflow performance. Ability to manage cash management and back office team efficiently and effectively.
Know-how in the management of investment settlement processes, securities and derivatives life cycle event management and reporting, investment processes and securities trading, cash management processes, etc is an asset.
Professional qualifications from accredited entities (for example ICMA) or from IFIs/Central Bank programmes are an asset.
Procedure adherence: Ability to strictly adhere to established, formal guidelines, including in new situations
Procedure interpretation: Ability to interpret established, formal guidelines to address and recommend solutions or further actions required
Capital market instruments: Knowledge of capital markets instruments (fixed income, derivatives, loans), risk and performance metrics and quantitative tools of fixed income valuation (cash flow, present value, interest rate risk, duration, etc.)
Liquidity management: Know-how in liquidity planning, liquidity investment, investment portfolio management and reporting
Digital Finance, FinTech and related: Know-how in fintech applications, robotic process automation, blockchain and digital finance applications to design, setup, implement and report
Disbursements, Payroll and Payments: Know-how in financial checks required for disbursements of loans and grants, payments and payroll transactions to reduce risk of error, fraud and non-compliance with rules, maintenance of clean vendor master files, arrears and debt management of loans
Financial data integrity and financial systems: know-how in systems interface control, core banking system management, data mining and analytics
Financial process management: Know-how in the management of financial processes such as reporting, treasury, investment processes and securities trading, cash management processes, etc.
Risk & compliance: Know-how in asset liability management, risk reporting, capital adequacy, quality assurance and compliance (e.g. Anti-money laundering (AML), Know your customer (KYC) processes), etc.
Analytical skills: Outstanding ability to analyse and synthesize qualitative and/or quantitative information from a variety of sources and filter out key insights and recommendations
Risk management (e.g. reputational): Identification and assessment of potential liabilities and risks in IFAD's activities, particularly vis-à-vis third parties; ability to handle risks via contingency and mitigation strategies
Time management: Adherence to deadlines under time constraints and pressure (e.g. to deliver governing body documents on time); ability to coordinate and manage complex workflows and in-house and external teams
Basic ICT & digital fluency: High level of digital literacy and ability to quickly get familiar with new digital tools (e.g. ability to carry out EPR data entry and extraction when budgeting; monitoring security systems, uploading content to inter/intra-net websites, etc.) and usage of LLM/AI.
Interpersonal skills: Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with others (e.g. visitors, clients, callers, etc.), including senior individuals (e.g. high-level meeting participants)
Problem solving: Strong systemic and structured thinking, ability to identify and dissect problems into components and formulate a comprehensive set of creative viable and sustainable solutions and strategies
