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Finance Associate
Accounting & Finance
Posted on Jul 25, 2026
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? 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 and promoting shared prosperity. With 189 member countries and more than 120 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 The WBG Budget and Procurement Solutions Vice Presidency (WPB VPU) is organized into five Departments serving across all organizations of the world bank group: • WBPCP - WBG Corporate Procurement: Overseeing sourcing, supplier management, and operational support. • WBPCE - WBG Centers of Excellence: Leading planning, reporting, shared services, and budget solutions • WBPCU - WBG Budget Partners, Corporate, Finance, and Knowledge Units: Providing strategic and operational leadership in finance planning and budget oversight to WBG executive, compliance, corporate, finance, and knowledge VPUs. • WBPRU - IBRD/IDA Budget Partners, Regional Units: Providing strategic and operational leadership in finance planning and budget oversight to regional VPUs and Country Office Accounting management and oversight, globally. • CSDR – IFC MIGA Budget Partners: Providing strategic and operational leadership in finance planning and budget oversight to IFC and MIGA clients, globally. The unified WBG WBP VPU provides the structural framework to enable faster, simpler, and more impactful solutions for our clients all rising to the challenges of the ‘bigger and better bank’. Specifically, Finance Associate (FA) responds to the need to be where our stakeholders need us most, providing timely relevant expert advice while harmonizing and leveraging best practice solutions at speed and scale, across all country offices. In addition, in country offices, WBPAW staff performs accounting, payment processing, cash management and administration functions. Overall, WBPAW ensures that each department maintains cost efficiency and effective controls over all financial transactions and provides support for effective management and monitoring of deliverables. The primary focus of the Finance Associate will be in the Country Office Accounting workstream. Finance Associates are expected to be specialists in accounting, analytics, controls, processes, and procedures. Finance Associate is expected to support daily accounting and financial transactions and decision-making through the provision of timely, fit for purpose information on the management of financial resources. Key accountabilities are: • Financial Transactions Payments: Review and process E-payable transactions, payroll inputs, staff loans, travel and rental advances, and vendor payments, ensuring accuracy in charge codes, bank accounts, tax treatment, and supporting documentation. Conduct payment runs and respond to Chennai queries on transaction compliance. • Budgeting, Cash Management Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly expense forecasts, budget reports with variance analysis, and bank reconciliations; monitor and replenish country office bank accounts; and submit VAT refund claims while resolving outstanding items on VAT, inter-currency, transit, and suspense accounts. • Procurement Vendor Management: Monitor purchase orders, STC transactions, and vendor open items (including GRIs, SES, and invoices) through the admin portal, and oversee rental contracts in PeopleSoft to ensure timely resolution of outstanding items. • Internal Controls, Compliance Risk Management: Maintain effective financial controls through oversight of corporate cards, asset inventory, signatory management, contract monitoring, record retention, account reconciliations, and timely resolution of audit, scorecard, and compliance-related matters. • Business Advisory Staff Support: Provide guidance to the Country Manager and business area staff on WBG financial, administrative, and benefits policies — including financial assistance loans, retirement plans, dependency allowances, and overtime — and onboard new staff on finance systems, travel, and related procedures. • Reporting, Audit Process Improvement: Respond to Scorecard and audit queries, ensure orderly filing of transaction documentation, and support process harmonization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives, including assigned COA projects such as VAT Automation and the SAP Upgrade.