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Inter-American Development Bank Hiring for IDB Invest ITG Business Analyst Consultant at Washington, DC Full Time
IDB Invest ITG Business Analyst Consultant
Context of this search:
The IDB INVEST, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral organization based in Washington, D.C., that is committed to the development of Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector. The candidate will work with the IDB Invest technology team in conjunction with the Treasury, Finance / Accounting, and Portfolio Analytics team in the optimization of our cash management and Treasury functions. The candidate will work with these units to help manage the strategic build-out of our technology platforms and focus on business needs. In addition, the candidate will support the project team with the business process mapping, analysis, QA / Testing management and business support.
The team:
The Information Technology and Analytics Division (AKI), this division is responsible for maintaining, improving, and developing business embedded applications and data solutions to support both existing and future needs of the institution. Within this same framework, this Division is also responsible for ensuring that IT Services Delivered by service providers meet organizational business needs executed in compliance
What you’ll do:
- Work with technology leadership to manage the optimization of our cash management processes, which include business function reengineering, technology optimization, and in mitigating operational risk.
- Analyze and document business processes to be implemented in any financial application.
- Work with the Solutions Architect to design appropriate solutions and be a liaison between developers and stakeholders to ensure that Finance applications meet stakeholder expectations.
- Work with developers to create customized solutions ensuring best practices application. This may include integrating third-party tools and/or custom code between the financial applications and any other IDB Invest application.
- Continually strive to improve the efficiency and usability of our already implemented financial solutions, leveraging your ongoing research, and understanding of business needs.
- Due to application enhancements, the business analyst must be able to work with developers to apply the changes provided by the vendor applications in the different financial solutions in the different environments (dev/test/prod).
- Provide level 1 or level 2 technical support to production financial applications.
- Work with the data and analytics team in the generation of reports and dashboards presented to senior management.
- Review and improve existing documents to maintain a robust, sustainable architecture that supports requirements and provides for expansion.
- Review the mapping of data sources, data movement, interfaces, and analytics, with the goal of ensuring data quality.
What you´ll need:
- Citizenship: You are either a citizen of United States of America or a resident with legal permit to work in United States of America.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Business Administration, Finance, or related field, a master’s degree is a plus.
- Experience: Minimum 7 years of experience in a business analyst role in capital markets, preferably with finance or treasury background leveraging PeopleSoft, SAP, Geneva or other financial system. Strong skillsets in the application of cash management of loans, derivatives, securities, and other fixed income instruments. Strong skills to understand various asset classes, their life cycle, and events to cash processing, cash reconciliation / matching, and wiring. Knowledge of third-party systems related to cash management solutions especially PeopleSoft, SAP, and SWIFT. Good communication skills as you will be liaising with various team leads and their proxies. Ability to structure project plans, PowerPoint slides, and lead meetings. Analytical, ability to structure an approach and methodology when looking at solving key business issues. Treasury solutions or PeopleSoft knowledge of Cash Management, GL, or Deal Manager Modules is a plus.
- Languages: Fluent in English. Spanish/Portuguese is a plus.
Functional expertise:
- You can work in a high-pressure environment while juggling multiple tasks, and to effectively prioritize tasks.
- You can understand and translate clients’ (business units) needs into solutions, providing services that meet clients’ expectations for quality and performance.
- You listen actively, obtain necessary input, share ideas, speak persuasively, and convey information in a clear, objective, and concise manner.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
Areas of Expertise:
- Familiarity with business process modeling tools and techniques.
Skills:
- Excellent communication, analytical, facilitation, and process modeling skills. Proven ability to work both independently and in a dynamic team environment. Ability to extensive business processes analysis and workflows.
Opportunity Summary:
- Type of contract and modality: Consultant Full Time.
- Length of contract: 12 months
- Location: Washington DC, USA.
- Responsible person: IT Lead Officer
Our culture: Working with us you will be surrounded by a diverse group of people who have years of experience in all types of private investment development fields, including infrastructure and energy, corporates, financial institutions, financial and non-financial products and services, gender and diversity, communications and much more.
Because we are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, we embrace all diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+, persons with disabilities, afro-descendants, and indigenous people to apply.
About us: IDB Invest, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral organization, committed to the development of the private sector of Latin America and the Caribbean by financing loans, equity investments, and guarantees. In addition, IDB Invest partners with clients to provide advisory and training services.
The IDB Invest offers a competitive remuneration and benefits package.
Our Human Resources Department carefully reviews all applications.
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for our Region, the IDB Group is reviewing its hiring needs and re-prioritizing its areas of talent acquisition. We encourage candidates to continue to apply to the active postings, yet current job openings may be subject to further decisions in terms of timing of the processes, or other actions, in accordance with business needs. Final hiring decisions may also be conditioned to the candidate’s ability to timely relocate to the post of duty at the moment of starting service.
